Breadbox/GEOS/NewDeal is very complete and still being supported, just the price is the disadvantage: http://www.breadbox.com

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I've tried Ensemble Lite, sorry, Ensemble is licensed only in volume ones, New Deal can be licensed per machine, and include all the goodies to start using it, but I think 99 USD per copy, at the times we're living (2005) it's overpriced. And for an FTP tool (separate) for Newdeal, I would not pay $34.xx. I saw the number of programs, it's great, but I was looking for something cheaper.

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iADX, I live in the UK and have both IBM OS/2 Warp3 (RED) Floppy and Warp4 CD, both boxed sets, plus the Mensys Update CD, they belonged to a Client who gave up on OS/2 for a while then decided eComstation (Serenity) version was a better bet. They owe me around 50 euros. Somewhere I may have a copy of GEM on 5.25 floppies!!!!!!

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As suggested by Roger, Warp 3. Solid as a rock and happy with a 486. M2

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I was once in the alternative OS craze and found something called menuet. It was a full 32bit os that fit on a floppy and i ran it on my thinkpad 770ed for a time when i couldnt get windows installed for some reason (linux eventually went in fine though). Worked great... though i do remember that it lacked networking support. However that was almost a year ago so u never know what could have been implemented into it (or if its even still around).

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a link to their website is http://www.menuetos.org/ . apparently their still around and it says something about networking so ill rite back after i try it.

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tried it, works alright but it seems to be "self obsessive" having no contact with my hard disk. I believe it can save the ramdrive to it though and reload it on the next boot but i havent tried it. It seemed to have networking capabilities (also claims to have working mail server) but i was unable to try it as i have wireless networking. i couldnt get my sound to work either, but i did get it to play a cd (not through the speakers, but it was able to read how many tracks and the time on each and said it was playing.) this may be because i was using a cd drive without the audio cable plugged in and any pre windows media player 7.0 needed this in order to play a cd... maybe it works off the same concept? but as of the specs uve givin above it doesnt sound as though ud be worried of this type of thing.

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I previously tried menuetOS, fast of course, but very basic, with little software catalog. Also, I don't think this system will grow too much, because it's programmed in pure assembler... and people prefer (because it's easier) programming in C. Thank you anyway, I think I'll use WarpOS, and if MenuetOS grows in software availability, i'll switch (this guys have to create APIs to C, Pascal, and Basic programmers)

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