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OS/2 - eComStation News - April, 2008
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2005: August September October November December
SW: Release of Uniaud 1.1.4RC6
SW: SNAP Graphics for OS/2 - free registration code & open source
SW: Vbox/2 v1.56_OSE for eComStation and OS/2, Build 9
SW: Firefox 3.0 beta 5
SW: How to contribute to ACPI project?
SW: Sunbird Calender version 0.8 available
SW: ACPI update 130420008
SW: cURL port updated to 7.18.1
SW: Squid updated to 3.0.stable4
SW: Vbox/2 version 1.56 available as a WPI now
| SW: Release of Uniaud 1.1.4RC6 |
2008-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Brendan Oakley
The Universal Audio Driver for eComStation and OS/2.
The Uniaud Team announces the release of Uniaud 1.1.4RC6.
Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC6.zip
Changes since 1.1.4RC5:
* Added ACPI support to Uniaud32.
* Fixed default sample rate selection in Uniaud16
(caused silence on NVidia AC'97 and other quirks)
All users of Uniaud are encouraged to upgrade to this latest Uniaud16.
This is the most stable Uniaud16 to date, and is expected to work well
with all supported hardware.
This Uniaud32 is intended to test the effects of having added ACPI
support. Some users may need to continue to use Uniaud32 RC5 if this gives
problems. We would like users to provide us feedback on this ACPI support
and discuss the results on the uniaud-user list.
HDA users will want to continue to test the 1.9.x series of Uniaud32
builds from Paul Smedley and not bother with this Uniaud32. For such users
this package is useful for installing Uniaud if it is not yet installed,
and for acquiring the latest Uniaud16.
A news group for users is at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.uniaud.general A mail list for
users can be subscribed to with an email to uniaud-user-subscribe@netlabs.org
Problem reports can be made (login required) and existing ones viewed at
http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/report
The Uniaud Team
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| SW: SNAP Graphics for OS/2 - free registration code & open source |
2008-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Steve Wendt
The SciTech SNAP Graphics products are no longer being actively developed,
and it is planned to have portions of the source code available under an
open source license. There will no longer be any future versions of SNAP
Graphics available from SciTech.
If you would like to use the latest SciTech release on your computer, it is
still available from the SciTech web site:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/os2/snap-os2-3.1.8.exe
There is also a free registration code you may use to unlock the product,
see this file for details:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/os2/free-reg-code.txt
If you are interested in assisting with an open source release, you may
subscribe to the OpenSNAP mailing list; please note that this list is not
intended for interested end users.
http://list.scitechsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/opensnap
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| SW: Vbox/2 v1.56_OSE for eComStation and OS/2, Build 9 |
2008-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Paul Smedley has another unofficial build of the Open Source Edition of
VirtualBox for OS/2 host. Note there is no official OS/2 host, but some
Innotek employees and others have worked on a version for OS/2 based on the
Open Source Edition of VirtualBox.
Get Vbox/2 here: http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index.php?page=virtualbox
Download: http://download.smedley.info/virtualbox-svn-20080404-os2.zip
What's new:
Build 9 31. mar 2008
----------------------------------------
- Host interface networking added to GUI/Qt interface.
We now have full networking support in GUI !
Added support for piix4 in VboxBFE ( to be compatible with Qt )
( All of this thanx to Hermi ! )
- Vbox updated to current 1.56 version.
Official website: http://www.virtualbox.org
"innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for
enterprise as well as home use."
Official unofficial builds of the OS/2 host can be found at
ftp://ftp.dmik.org/pub/common/vbox/
User Manual: http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/UserManual.pdf
There is now a support forum for the OS/2 host on the Innotek VirtualBox
website: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=10
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| SW: Firefox 3.0 beta 5 |
2008-04-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Weilbacher
I have finally found time to build the 5th (and last) beta of Firefox 3. It
should appear linked from http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ soon.[*] Note
that the ReadMe linked there lists the major problems of the OS/2 version
(again, that list didn't get much shorter than for beta 4).
The few OS/2 specific improvements since 3.0 beta 4:
- Finally make bookmark tooltips and popups appear in front of the
bookmarks menu (thanks go to Stefan Schmohl!).
- Some improvements to the default theme on OS/2 (by Walter Meinl).
- Reduce the download and on-disk size a little bit by packaging only
necessary theme graphics and strip all binaries.
- Allow RWS to be switched off.
- In principle allow plugin content to be printed, but no OS/2 plugins
seem to support this.
Please report bugs via Bugzilla. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Please post comments to the mozilla.dev.ports.os2 newsgroup (on
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 ).
[*] In case you are impatient you can go to the download directory
directly:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b5/contrib/
Enhanced OS/2 builds of Mozilla applications http://pmw-warpzilla.sf.net/
Steve's Warpzilla Tips: http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
Requires a libc0.6.3 based version of the GCC runtime library.
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc
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| SW: How to contribute to ACPI project? |
2008-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
Current version: ACPI 3.08
(ACPI initializes the computer, enables 2-nd core, manages IRQs, control of
power)
Do you have troubles with the latest ACPI? and using SAP switch (Acer
notebooks)?
Please test special build: ACPI13042008.ZIP
How to download special build --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=testcase
If you have interest, you can do:
* check-acpi-compatibility.cmd -- check system, drivers
* ACPI Info utility (merlin notebook, C)
* create UNI/SMP benchmarks tools
More details -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=contribute
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| SW: Sunbird Calender version 0.8 available |
2008-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Weilbacher
I built Sunbird 0.8 for OS/2 a while ago, today it was uploaded to the
Mozilla download site. Please get it from
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/0.8/contrib/os2/
Cheers,
Peter.
[Moderator Note: For moreon sunbird see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
"Mozilla SunbirdŽ is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon
Mozilla Toolkit. "
Also note that there are National Holiday files for many different
countries that can be imported into either Sunbird or the Lightning add-on
for Thunderbird at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html ]
Enhanced OS/2 builds of Mozilla applications http://pmw-warpzilla.sf.net/
Steve's Warpzilla Tips: http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
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| SW: ACPI update 130420008 |
2008-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."
ACPI Tools homepage -- http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools
Available to those with access via Software Subscription Services Dowloads
( via logging in at http://www.mensys.nl/indexuk.html )
There is a new update ACPI13042008.ZIP (last dated 04/13/2008) to ACPI.PSD
under the ACPI listing on the Mensys Download page for Software
Subscription Services. This is a Zip of the various components of ACPI
including ACPI.PSD, ACPI32.DLL, ACPIDAEMON.EXEand APM.ADD.
To post bug-reports to the tracker
http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
login: guest, password: netlabs) and press "New ticket"
how to collect logs? http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=logs
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| SW: cURL port updated to 7.18.1 |
2008-04-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Paul Smedley has updated the eComStation build of cURL has been updated to
v7.18.1 See: http://os2ports.smedley.info
The main Curl website is at http://curl.haxx.se/.
"curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP,
LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP
uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password
authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer
resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. "
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| SW: Squid updated to 3.0.stable4 |
2008-04-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Paul Smedley has updated Squid to v3.0.stabl4. See:
http://os2ports.smedley.info
Squid is...
* a full-featured Web proxy cache
* free, open-source software
* the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers
Squid supports...
* proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs
* proxying for SSL
* cache hierarchies
* ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
* WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above)
* extensive access controls
* HTTP server acceleration
* SNMP
* caching of DNS lookups
More information including documentation is available from
http://www.squid-cache.org/
Requires libc063.dll ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
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| SW: Vbox/2 version 1.56 available as a WPI now |
2008-04-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Andreas Ludwig has created a WarpIn installation package of Paul Smedley's
last VirtualBox/2 build. You can download this at
http://andreas-ludwig.info/uploads/VirtualBox%201-5-6%20build%209.wpi
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