Category:Open Source

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Here it is my little open source OS/2-eCS corner. You are free to complement my information on this wiki.

What is Open Source?

It is defined as open source as the software released under the licenses approved by the [Open Source Initiative].

Why it is important an Open Source strategy for OS/2 and eComStation

It is important to ensure the future of the OS. We currently have dependencies on IBM and Serenity System. If any of those two companies stops the support, OS/2 and eComstation are not going to be able to change and improve in the future.

On the other hand, if the operating system turns open source, there could be more players that will be willing to enhance the OS and also have more companies interested on providing OS/2-eCS support.

So Open Sourcing OS/2-eCs it is important for the future of the platform.


Creating an Open Source OS/2 and eComStation


So, it is possible to create an OS/2-eCS open source replacement. Of course that it will take a long time, since OS/2-eCS is a complex operating system with a lot of time invested on it.

Blog

Open Source Software for OS/2 and eComStation

Drivers

Name Type License Requirements Comments
BT32.SYS TV Watcom 11.0C, IBM's DDK and LXAPI32 sources to build this driver. BT8X8 driver for TV-Cards. Source
ext2 File System GNU GPL V2 32bit Linux ext2 file system driver (IFS) for OS/2. Source.
FAT32 File System GNU LGPL FAT32 is a filesystem driver for the well known FAT32-filesystem which is often used on Windows 9X partitions.
ISOFS File System GNU GPL V2 EMX ISOFS is an installable file system for OS/2 to access ISO rawfiles suitable for burning on CD. Source & Binaries
LXAPI32 Dev Watcom 11.0C and IBM's DDK to build this driver. LXAPI32.SYS provides a small Linux API to other device drivers. With this helper driver it is relative easy to port other Linux drivers to OS/2. LXAPI contains. Source
MWDD32 Dev GNU GPL V2 mwdd32 is a package that allows the implementation of 32 bits OS/2 device drivers (BASEDEV and DEVICE) as well as 32 bits Installable File Systems (IFS).
MultiMac Network GNU GPL V2 Network driver for NVETH, Intel E1000E, RealTek R8110, R8169 and IWL.
OS2AHCI Storage GNU GPL SATA AHCI HDD driver.
OpenJFS File System GNU GPL V2 IBM C/C++ Compiler and Tools V 3.6.5, Microsoft C V 6.0a, OS/2 Developers Toolkit v4.5 JFS (Journal File System) IFS driver for OS/2.
Rodent Mouse Public Domain Support for several mouse models.
SoundCard Device Driver (SoundBlaster) Audio GNU GPL Support for Sound Blaster audio cards.
VirtualBox Shared Folders Driver This driver is part of the OS/2 additions for VirtualBox.
UniAud Audio GNU GPL Based on ALSA core.
WatcomIFS FileSystem Not Specified Sample Source for building an IFS driver using Open Watcom.
Wacom Bamboo digitizer tablet Mouse / Input Device Not Specified Device driver for Wacom Bamboo digitizer tablet.
xATA / Danis506 Storage GNU LGPL Hard Drive storage driver.
ISOFS File System GNU GPL ISOFS is an installable file system for OS/2 to access ISO rawfiles suitable for burning on CD. It allows transparent read only access to the contents of the raw file, also through WPS!

Currently only single session images are supported.

Applications

Antivirus

Name Type License Requirements Comments
ClamAV Antivirus GNU GPL

CAD/CAM

Name Type License Requirements Comments
CADEMIA Java GNU GPL Java A modern CAD system with a full functionality to create dimensional accurate technical drawings and documents.
ITE CAD for OS/2 Qt GNU LGPL V2.1 Qt4 Libraries ITE CAD is an Italian CAE/CAD application written using the QT 4 libraries. Application developed using Qt4 compiler.
QElectroTech Qt GNU GPL Qt4 Libraries Application to design electric diagrams.

CD Recording

Name Type License Requirements Comments
Audio/Data-CD-Creator GNU GPL
CDDVDRTools GNU GPL
cdrdao/2 GNU GPL
CDRecord/2 GNU GPL CDRecord/ is the OS/2 port of cdrecord from *nix.
Cdrtools/2 GNU GPL
DVD Backup Command Line GNU GPL GCC dvdbackup is a tool to rip video DVDs from the command line. [1]
DVD Author e QDVD Author GNU GPL GCC, LibC DVD Backup
ISOFS File System GNU GPL ISOFS is an installable file system for OS/2 to access ISO rawfiles suitable for burning on CD. It allows transparent read only access to the contents of the raw file, also through WPS!

Currently only single session images are supported.

Varsha ?? Varsha is a Java user-friendly DVD frontend for various command-line tools such as dvdauthor, mkisofs, growisofs etc

Clocks

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Communications

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Convert

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Databases

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Diaries and logbooks

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Editors

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Emulators

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Encryption

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Games

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Graphics

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Miscellaneous

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Money

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Multimedia

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Office Suite

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Presentations

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Scanning

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Screen savers

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Spreadsheets

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Word Processing

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Internet

Chat

DNS

Dialer

FTP

Filesharing

ICQ

IRC

Mail - Clients

Mail - Servers

Mirror

News

Proxy servers

Remote Control

Time

Utility

Web - Browser

Web - Servers

Web - utilities

Utilities

Archivers

Name Type License Requirements Comments
bzip2 GNU GPL
cabextract LGPL
Disk extractor GNU GPL
Info-Zip GNU GPL
ArcViewer GNU GPL

Backup

Disk

File

WPS

Widgets for eCenter and XCenter

Libraries

TBD

Name Type License Requirements Comments
ansirand GNU GPL displays randomic color characters on an OS/2 command session
ATP GNU GPL text-mode QWK reader
CAD/off Free Distribution Disables CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot keys.
Carrie R. Lust GNU GPL phone-cost and online time tracking utility
FleetStreet Not Specified
Isoren GNU GPL Tool to rename files and directories to ISO level 2 or to DOS convention.
MultiMail offline reader GNU GPL Reads Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP packets.
nistime Not Specified This program access the NIST time/date server via TCP/IP and obtains the standard time
TIMETRAC GNU GPL track the time you spend on your many different activities during the day
Wanda GNU GPL OS/2 sticky notes application.
WarpGlobe GNU GPL WARPGLOBE earth globe application that puts a mark were the OS/2 are.


Workplace Shell Related Programs

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