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eComStation 2 status update
Following a major undertaking, with many alpha, beta and semi-gold
versions, eComStation 2.0 GA was released last year at Warpstock
Europe 2010.
Since eComStation 1.2R close to 1.000 bugs were resolved and a lot of new
features have been introduced,
the most important being the support for modern hardware with ACPI, multi-core CPUs and the
Panorama video driver. Other new features include the Bootable JFS filesystem, a major
overhaul of the preboot menu, Samba network support including a neat GUI
and the list goes on.
A lot of people have been anticipating localized versions of eComStation 2.0 GA,
the German release being considered the most important.
Of course, you should expect nothing less than a timely release of the GA
product in all possible languages. However, despite numerous betas and
Release Candidates, we ran into some "interesting" issues¹ when eComStation
2.0 was deployed on more systems than had participated in the test cycle.
It has been decided to update some of the core features to provide a workaround for these
issues before releasing the localized GA versions. This means that the German, Dutch and Italian versions
of eComStation 2 will become available in a fresh and completely up-to-date version of 2.1!
We trust that by providing you with this updated version you will have a better experience with installing
and using eComStation. We hope that you will forgive us the extra delay this has caused.
¹) The main issues we encountered are related to coexistence with other operating systems, Linux and Windows 7
in particular. Others include the inability to boot from the installation CD altogether.
eComStation software and driver projects
It is good to see that recently there has been more activity around the development of eComStation software
than ever. Many, partly community funded, projects have been started (and finished!) providing
us all with some major new tools. To name a few:
- Qt4: Qt 4.6.3 released,
many ported applications available
- Java 6: OpenJDK 6 version 1.6.0-b19 RC just out
- Odin 32: Windows emulation layer, version 20110221 available
- Flash 10: Technology Preview 2 available from BetaZone
- Samba: better support for heterogeneous network environements,
version 3.0.37 just released
- Native printing support for Mozilla applications (Mensys sponsored project)
Apart from the software side of things, there are multiple efforts ongoing to provide better hardware support for eComStation:
- Multimac: native Intel, nVidia and other NIC drivers, a Mensys project
- USB: providing an up to date USB driver stack
- GL/2: providing hardware accelerated OpenGL 3D rendering for eComStation and OS/2
- Uniaud: AC'97 and HDA sound drivers
- eCups: improving printing support
- AHCI (AHCI support for eComStation, Mensys project in early alpha stage)
It is clear that our favourite platform is in good shape already but getting into even better shape in the near future!
We are very thankful to the community for providing sponsoring and all the developers who keep committing their
time to enhancing eComStation even more.
Warpstock Europe 2011
The Warpstock Europe 2011 event will be held from Friday the 6th to Sunday the 8th of May at
the "La Place" Conferencing Centre in Haarlem, The Netherlands. It is hosted and organized
by the Dutch OS/2 & eCS user group, member of the Holland computer user association (HCC)
in cooperation with Mensys BV.
A lot of well known names from the eComStation community will be attending so this is your
chance to meet some of the legends in real life.
The presentation slots are filled for about 40%, so there is some room for additional
presentations. If you would like to do one yourself, you are more than welcome to!
For details please visit the Warpstock Europe website.
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In this issue
- Welcome
- Status update
- Projects
- Warpstock Europe
Applications
Below are some of the latest added or updated applications. This list is maintained by eCSoft/2
Subversion 1.6.16
Subversion for OS/2, based on latest libc063.dll.
Samba Server 1.0.6 (3.0.37)
SAMBA is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client set originaly made for UNIX ...
Uniaud, Universal Audio Driver 2.1.2 & 1.9.25
Uniaud is the OS/2 and eComStation port of the Alsa project ...
File Commander 2.40
File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, ...
Clamav & ClamAV-GUI 0.96.2 & 2.0.0
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX (and OS/2). The main purpose of this software ...
NYAOS, Nihongo Yet Another OSes Shell 3.1.5_0
NYAOS (NYACUS, NYADOS, NYAOS-II) is the enhanced commandline shell for Windows, DOS, OS/2.
Scythia 0.9.3
Scythia is a simple FTP client.
Postgres SQL Server 9.03
OS/2 port of Postgres SQL server.
VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.7
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats ...
Mplayer 4.4.5
Port of MPlayer: it is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).
K Movie Player 0.6.3
K Movie Player Port for "KDE" Linux Desktop. This program is based on FFplay
MyCinema 20110205
MyCinema - A simple, fast, and multiplatform application to create your own movie collection.
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