I spent a lot of time with OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation before buying it. I loaded it onto a Dell Inspiron 5591 and the two things that don't work are the touchpad and the network adapter. Installation and booting went better than I expected. I am sure I will get those problems resolved soon.
There is a hardware supported list on Arca Noae's site and I am working to see if I can build a modern system with supported hardware.
I also installed it on Virtualbox and it works 100% with no issues there. I can even start it with 4GB of RAM. OS/2 Warp 4 won't start with more than 2GB enabled. I am looking at setting up a website for progress. There are a lot of OS/2 related sites and forums but I haven't found a single one that documents all the problems I have solved. The biggest one was the Arca Noae package manager set up and getting EMX to work correctly.
The one major drawback on Virtual box is scaling doesn't work at all and you have to pick a resolution and reboot for it to take effect. On my Debian Virtualbox deployment I hit the button to full screen it scales the resolution perfectly.
I spent a lot of time with OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation before buying it. I loaded it onto a Dell Inspiron 5591 and the two things that don't work are the touchpad and the network adapter. Installation and booting went better than I expected. I am sure I will get those problems resolved soon.
There is a hardware supported list on Arca Noae's site and I am working to see if I can build a modern system with supported hardware.
I also installed it on Virtualbox and it works 100% with no issues there. I can even start it with 4GB of RAM. OS/2 Warp 4 won't start with more than 2GB enabled. I am looking at setting up a website for progress. There are a lot of OS/2 related sites and forums but I haven't found a single one that documents all the problems I have solved. The biggest one was the Arca Noae package manager set up and getting EMX to work correctly.
The one major drawback on Virtual box is scaling doesn't work at all and you have to pick a resolution and reboot for it to take effect. On my Debian Virtualbox deployment I hit the button to full screen it scales the resolution perfectly.
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