For Facts Sake =link= May 2026
Because in the end, reality has a well-known bias: it doesn’t negotiate. Want me to tailor this for a specific industry, audience, or platform (e.g., LinkedIn, company blog, personal site)?
Here’s a draft blog post titled — let me know if you’d like to adjust the tone, length, or focus. For Facts Sake: Why Getting It Right Still Matters We live in an age of information overload. Every day, we’re flooded with headlines, hot takes, memes, statistics, and “truths” that disappear as quickly as they appear. In this environment, it’s tempting to treat facts as just another opinion. But for facts’ sake, let’s pause and remember: facts are the difference between understanding and confusion, between solutions and spinning wheels. The Quiet Power of Facts Facts don’t shout. They don’t trend. They don’t care who’s winning the argument. A fact is a verified piece of reality — something that holds true whether we believe in it or not. And while facts alone don’t tell us what to do, they give us a solid place to stand. for facts sake
Hello Thom
Serenity System and later Mensys owned eComStation and had an OEM agreement with IBM.
Arca Noae has the ownership of ArcaOS and signed a different OEM agreement with IBM. Both products (ArcaOS and eComStation) are not related in terms of legal relationship with IBM as far as I know.
For what it had been talked informally at events like Warpstock, neither Mensys or Arca Noae had access to OS/2 source code from IBM. They had access to the normal IBM products of that time that provided some source code for drivers like the IBM Device Driver Kit.
The agreements with IBM are confidential between the companies, but what Arca Noae had told us, is that they have permission from IBM to change the binaries of some OS/2 components, like the kernel, in case of being needed. The level of detail or any exceptions to this are unknown to the public because of the private agreements.
But there is also not rule against fully replacing official IBM binaries of the OS with custom made alternatives, there was not a limitation on the OS/2 days and it was not a limitation with eComStation on it’s days.
Regards
4gb max ram WITH PAE! nah sorry a few frames would that ra mu like crazy. i am better off using 64x_hauku, linux or BSD.
> a few frames would that ra mu like crazy
I am not sure what you were trying to say. I can’t untangle that.
This is a 32-bit OS that aside from a few of its own 32-bit binaries mainly runs 16-bit DOS and Win16 ones.
There are a few Linux ports, but they are mostly CLI tools (e.g. `yum`). They don’t need much RAM either.
4GB is a lot. I reviewed ArcaOS and lack of RAM was not a problem.
Saying that, I’d love in-kernel PAE support for lots of apps with 2GB each. That would probably do everything I ever needed.