Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[James Knott]

billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Incidentally, a few years ago, I was supporting users on OS/2, Windows
>> 95 and NT.  One thing I found is that once an OS/2 user was set up and
>> running, I almost never heard from them again.  W95 generated many
>> problems and while NT was much better than W95, it still wasn't anywhere
>> near as good as OS/2.
>>
> OS/2 had its share of weird problems, but to its defence it did successfully solve the 'stupid user' problem without sacrificing usability. Did you know that there was a way to add code to the kernel at configuration time.

I haven't done that, but there were a lot of things you could do.  OS/2
supported hardware profiles long before Windows did.

Just this morning, during breakfast with some friends, one of OS/2's
benefits came up.  I was mentioning how I was recently working on a
Windows problem, where about 150 GB of a 750 GB drive was unusable on a
Windows server, because of the number of files was maxed out, despite
all the free space.  That would have never happened on OS/2 with HPFS,
as there's no concept of clusters.  And of course, in Linux, we'd just
change the number of inodes.
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