Hi
I want to give a further opinion on some of the post which are very interesting to me.
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Sample lists of working and recent hardware. Do we already have more reports than working hardware components?
Yes, I like that a lot. My doubt still remains "how"?
I had been trying to document hardware running no ArcaOS every time opportunity appears, but creating a wiki page on the OS2World wiki (
some example). When someone post on the forum about a new machine I ask for the pci.exe report to try to enhance the description on the page. Sadly it is not very effective since it is a not formal campaign, i don't have the man power to focus on that, and it is very reactive.
I liked a past approach were eCo used to ask every week for different reports, but I wanted to do something more collaborative (under a Creative Commons license) and where you can add more details. People also tell me that a Wiki is not the best tool to do hardware reports, but it is simple enough for me.
So, the opening for leading the community on hardware reports is open
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Sample lists of utilities that are missing in recent ArcaOS installations.
Good one. Os2World forums is always open for people requesting things or posting different ideas, but I think we lack the consolidation effort on what utilities should be on the top of the wishlist... It sound interesting too.
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Also a documentation about...
Documentation on any topic related to ArcaOS (How To, Reviews, Bug workarronds, Tips, Tricks) are always welcome, and this time, the OS2World wiki is a good tool for it. Maybe more efforts are needed on trying to get more people writing and after that communicating the new stuff that can be read.
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RPM
I also find interesting try to consolidate the RPM servers with more OS/2 software. I even made some tests to create rpm packages for some games, but since we still do not have a community RPM server (beside Netlabs) I found it discouraging to continue packaging this with RPM.
- I think we need a friendly (more relaxed) rpm server on where to upload packages like games, tools, etc with a simple process on how to upload things to it.
- Also, we need a backup place that replicates and preserve the rpm packages in different places, just to be sure no more files get erased with time.
I think it will be worthy to put more efforts on creating more rpm packages for software that is already available to simplify the installation process.
Very interesting brainstorming, please keep posting any ideas of what the community can help within the platform.
Regards