New articles about VOICE and ArcaOS
08 February, 2026 - Install software on ARCAOS as on Windows, Linux, phone
04 June, 2024 - Secure Boot Tools for ArcaOS
05 August, 2022 - Browser status update from OS/2VOICE and BWW Bitwise Works, update 14
13 February, 2022 - Browser status update 13
07 August, 2020 - The status of the new QtWebEngine/Chromium based browser, update 12
01 March, 2020 - VOICE/Bitwise works new browser update 11
25 December, 2019 - VOICE/Bitwise works new browser update 10
26 September, 2019 - New Web Browser for OS/2 is within reach!
29 June, 2019 - Remote OS/2 Desktop Support via the internet
31 March, 2019 - New Web Chromium based for OS/2 getting closer!
24 March, 2019 - Update 8 from OS/2 VOICE/BWW QT, QT partly working!
12 March, 2019 - Update 7 Browser funding campaign
8 October, 2018 - Remote OS/2 desktop support via the internet.
30 August, 2018 - Update 6, browser fund.
19 July, 2018 - Update 5, browser fund.
13 April, 2018 - Update 4, browser fund and QT roadmap.
29 March, 2018 - Browser funding upate.
26 February, 2018 - LAN Server installation utility.
26 February, 2018 - LAN Server installation utility.
Saturday, 17 February, 2018 and
Sunday, 25 February, 2018 and
Sunday, 4 March, 2018.
Logs of recent VOICE SpeakUps,
4 February, 2018 - VOICE projects for 2018.
20 November, 2017 - Latest word on our browser funding campaign.
11 October, 2017 - Sponsorship of a new browser.
3 September, 2016 - Recent activity and our new organization.
2026/08/25
Warpstock 2026 Announcement
Warpstock 2026 has been announced. It will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 6, 7 and 8, at the Courtyard Marriott Airport, located at 8615 Broadway Street, San Antonio Texas, USA.
More information is available here at the Arca Noae blog and at the Warpstock website, for some information on event registration and hotel rates.
2026/03/15
ArcaOS 5.1.2 Now Available
Arca Noae is proud to announce the general availabilty of ArcaOS 5.1.2 in English, German, Spanish and Russian.
ArcaOS 5.1.2 can be used for new installs or to upgrade any prior English version of ArcaOS 5 and improves the support for installation on the latest generation of UEFI-based systems, as well as the ability to install to GPT-based layouts.
More information available here.
2026/03/15
Arca Noae Device Driver Updates
Arca Noae has released updates to these device drivers, to these levels:
USB 12.18
NVME 1.03
ACPI 3.23.19
AMouse 4.02
Panorama 1.21
More information here.
2026/02/15
Warpstock Europe 2026 Announced
Warpstock Europe, 2026, is set to happen 5, 6 and 7 June in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. The websites www.warpstock.eu and donation.os2voice.org have not yet been updated but you can look at the old website to find hotels and how to reach Warpstock Europe 2026.
2024/02/19
Hobbes Development
The Hobbes website at NMSU has been shutdown due to the retirement of the person who was looking after it.
Nathan Woodruff created and hosted a new replacement for the Hobbes NMSU Archive.
The site is called Hobbes Archive and is located at http://hobbesarchive.com/The new site is now allowing OS/2 file uploads.
Nathan and Martin Iturbide have been working together to implement a lot of
cleanup and improvements to the new site.
Compared to Hobbes NMSU there are some improved features:
- Similar layout to Hobbes NMSU.
- Upload web form. There is no ftp upload and no need for the .txt companion file.
- Improved search which can now be done by file name, short description and long description.
Special thanks to Nathan Woodruff for creating the site from scratch and his commitment to maintain it in a long term.
2021/08/02
PMMail for OS/2 version 3.25 has been released.
For more information, release notes and a free download of the demonstration version of the program, please visit our website here.
The filename of the released version is pmmail-3-25-00-1993.wpi
PMMail/2 allows limited usage until it is registered. The limitations are:
- 1 account
- 1 attachment per new message
- Each message printed has a statement that this is a demonstration version of PMMail/2.
A registration code is required to use all features of the program. A PMMail/2 licence is free for those who have been a VOICE sponsor with one standard sponsorship unit at least two consecutive years. Others can obtain a PMMail/2 licence by donating two standard sponsorship units to VOICE.
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PMMail now requires libcx
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Starting with version 3.24, PMMail is built with GCC 4.9.2 and requires libcx. To satisfy this requirement, you can use Arca Noae Package Manager (ANPM) or yum. The package to install is named libcx.
In addition, PMMail now requires aspell, and aspell can also be installed by ANPM or yum. The PMMail Utility requires DrCtl. At the command line the additional requirements can be installed by:
yum install libcx aspell-en DrCtl
The following language dictionaries can be specified instead of aspell-en
- aspell-de
- aspell-en
- aspell-es
- aspell-fr
- aspell-it
- aspell-nl
- aspell-ru
VOICE supports open-source projects
In 2017, VOICE donated 2,800 Euros to BitWiseWorks for Software development, and a 1,126.93 Euro subsidy was provided to Warpstock Europe.
In 2016, VOICE donated 1000 Euros to Netlabs to help Netlabs buy a backup server.
In 2013, VOICE donated 2700 Euros to support developement of Firefox 17.
In 2012, VOICE donated 8100 Euros to support development of the following projects.
- OpenJDK 6.0
- ODIN
- QPDFView
- PSI
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