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Re:ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21s... by hulitu on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:59AM (#37401763)
> The Personal Edition is priced at $139 (£110). For owners of older versions and licensed copies of eComStation or IBM OS/2, update packages are available

Too expensive for something you just want to try and nothing is guaranteed to work.

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Re:ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21s... by lproven on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:14AM (#37402873)
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It's a very niche product from a very small company. I think it's fair. It is going to put most people off, yes, but this is definitely not an OS for most people.

eComStation 2.1 is on the Internet Archive. I've installed it on bare metal on a Thinkpad X61, and it worked fine. I was not able to work out the long chain of dependencies necessary to upgrade Firefox to something useful, though.

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Re:ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21s... by nar001 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:39AM (#37415849)
They're also pretty bad at customer service, taking down a video that supposedly talked about a pirated version of their software (it wasn't): https://nitter.net/mjdtweets/status/1621268945876537345
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