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  • Otter Browser Aims To Bring Chromium To Decades-Old OS/2 Operating Syst

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 19 09:01:24 2022
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system

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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu May 19 17:10:55 2022
    On 19.05.2022 16:01, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system

    Interesting, but surely they targeting the latest ArcaOS and not the "decades-old" OS/2 builds from IBM...

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Tomas Slavotinek on Thu May 19 10:25:37 2022
    Tom, you never cease to amaze me. You must be the life of the party...

    On 5/19/2022 10:10, Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    On 19.05.2022 16:01, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system


    Interesting, but surely they targeting the latest ArcaOS and not the "decades-old" OS/2 builds from IBM...



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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu May 19 17:41:13 2022
    Well, I just dislike this type of sensational headlines.

    By that logic Windows 11 is also "decades-old" because it originates in
    Windows NT 3.1, or heck, OS/2 3.0...

    On 19.05.2022 17:25, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Tom, you never cease to amaze me. You must be the life of the party...

    On 5/19/2022 10:10, Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    On 19.05.2022 16:01, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system



    Interesting, but surely they targeting the latest ArcaOS and not the
    "decades-old" OS/2 builds from IBM...




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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu May 19 15:20:08 2022
    On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 9:01:29 AM UTC-5, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system

    That's an old article. Seems they are still working on porting Otter
    to OS/2 but have also moved onto Dooble now. I've been watching
    the development of a new modern web browser for about 5 years
    and they are constantly changing the direction they're going.

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  • From Kevin Bowling@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 19 19:57:52 2022
    On 5/19/22 15:20, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 9:01:29 AM UTC-5, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/02/16/2121220/otter-browser-aims-to-bring-chromium-to-decades-old-os2-operating-system

    That's an old article. Seems they are still working on porting Otter
    to OS/2 but have also moved onto Dooble now. I've been watching
    the development of a new modern web browser for about 5 years
    and they are constantly changing the direction they're going.

    Chrom{e,ieum} is an insane codebase. I run FreeBSD on many machines and
    the patchset for a relatively common and modern OS that shares plenty of details with Linux is large. Google wont even let the support live in
    their repo, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have an external repo/patchset now to collaborate on.

    I would think Firefox would be a better target but Rust bringup would be necessary.

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