Today, that ArcaOS is available to the public, there are a few things that the OS/2 community can do to support the platform.
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- Report hardware that is working and hardware issues to the community. You can use the OS2World wiki and OS2World forum.
- Contact former OS/2 software developers to open source their code. You can contact me (
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Remember that:
- Arca Noae has its formal tool to report bugs right here.
- OS/2 related news can be found at OS2World, eCSoft/2 , OS/2 Warp News and Rumors and OS2VOICE.
- Informal question can be post on the OS2World forums.
- Sometimes it is nice to chat on IRC and #netlabs on the freenet (or using Riot-web) is the most active channel.
Remember also that:
- For all the OS/2 Development related documentation, we have the EDM/2 Wiki. (CC Share Alike)
- For all the rest, hardware testing, software review and any other article that is non-development we have the OS2World Wiki. (CC Share Alike)
- For all public files, we have hobbes.
- In addition, all the open source code can be share on OS2World’s Github.
- Active open souce projects can also be located on Netlabs code repositories.
A Future: Moving forward with Open source.
Open source has been in part the methodology that has helped ArcaOS to release an OS/2 version that is usable today. Many of the software that allows us to surf the internet and do different things in OS/2 has come from open source projects.
It is time to endorse more open source to replace and clone the internal workings of OS/2 to ensure a future for the platform. Now we have to look under the hood and see how open source can help us improve and clone some of the important components of OS/2 like:
Once we finish with the short term testing and the stabilization of the platform, it is time to think in a long-term future, and open source can help us with that.
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