From: Will Honea    
      
   Fritz Wuehler wrote:   
      
   > Hi Peter Brown!!! I got the same answer from you and Peter Flass...two   
   > Peter's and two same answers maybe its a conspiracy theory ;) so it looks   
   > like this os2 warp 4 is the one....but how can i apply this bear of a   
   > fixpacks?   
      
   IBM practices actually make fixpaks relatively painless: each succesive    
   fixpak contains all prior fixes with very few exceptions.  With Warp 4, I    
   think one needed something like fixpak 13 before applying fp 15 (don't take    
   that as gospel - it's been a while since I looked at that so the actual    
   numbers may different).   
      
   In your case, I would lean toward Warp 4 myself.  I have been able to    
   install that in a virtualbox session under Linux as well as a native    
   install.  You may find the virtual route preferable as it supports a    
   virtualized video which is quite usable by OS/2 with several options for    
   drivers.   
      
   I haven't been to the IBM archive sites in some time but I have my own    
   archive of fixpaks for Warp 4 as well as the Visual Age 3/4 should you go    
   that way.  I also have a reasonably complete CSV repository for the OS/2 SDK    
   up until I finally retired from active OS/2 Development about three years    
   ago.  Feel free to contact me directly if you go forward wth this effort and    
   need something you can't find.   
      
   I still think OS/2 has the best implementation of a desktop environment and    
   their multitasking scheduler along with native thread support still run    
   circles around anything else. I really hated to see development stop for    
   this platform.  eCS has done a lot but they lack the resources to really    
   move it forward.   
      
   --    
   Will Honea   
      
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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