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MySQL 5.0.45 for OS/2 Warp and eComStation

For those of you who enjoy running exotic operating systems: I just stumbled over a port of MySQL 5.0.45 for OS/2 and eComStation. Thanks a lot to Paul Smedley for maintaining this version! He also maintains a large number of other Unix applications that he ported over to OS/2 - very impressive.

Posted by Lenz Grimmer in MySQL, OSS at 12:07 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hey Lenz- Back in the day; well before Linuxcare at least, I did the OS/2 thing. Warp has had a rich heritage of ported tools and we used to download the various unix tools back then and install the runtime libraries. I remember running SLRN and a few other tools from hobbes.nmsu.edu back then. OS/2 was always a superior operating system and its multitasking abilities are legendary. Its good to see that critical applications are maintained because I still know a fair number of folks that run it. Way back when when I worked at the GAP we were a huge OS/2 shop and life was good. I loved being an OS/2'er and looking out at thousands of OS/2 desktops humming away. We had relatively few service and support calls then. Then along came NT4 Workstation... That was a downturn in quality and an upturn in numbers of support tickets about something most of those folks had never seen... Namely BSOD screens.

#1 Michael Perry (Homepage) on 2007-09-27 17:52 (Reply)

Hi Mike! Thanks for your comment. Yes, I too remember maintaining OS/2 desktop systems in a previous life. It was quite a decent OS, especially in comparison to the other options available at that time. I think it's great to see that some folks still care about it. And using *nix and OSS tools makes sure that a migration path to Linux or *BSD is painless <img src="/templates/default/img/emoticons/wink.png" alt=";-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" />

#1.1 LenZ (Homepage) on 2007-09-28 10:09 (Reply)

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