OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
ArcaOS 5.1
ivan:
Eugene, My experience from over 30 years in engineering (now retired for 20 years) was you didn't announce a product until you had it ready to go out the door, then you pulled out all the stops and pressed down on the loud pedal.
R.M. Klippstein:
I agree with you 100% ivan! I'm not going to replace my machines just so I can claim I,m using UEFI, especially now that you seem to have RYZEN processors working without problems. 5.1 is starting to look like a myth!
ivan:
I gave up using Intel processors when AMD produced their 486 processor. Since then I have tried to keep up with their processor evolution, hence my using the Ryzen third gen PRO 4350G - the G indicated an included graphics processor which means I don't have to mess about with expensive graphics cards which gain nothing with OS/2 or ArcaOS.
Neil Waldhauer:
I don't think its wrong for Arca Naoe to say they are working on a new operating system version, or what features it will have. But I don't want them to announce that it is nearly out. That kind of announcement is pretty discouraging to re-sellers.
By the way, I'm posting from the "mythical" 5.1. If you need GPT or UEFI, this is a good change. If you don't, ArcaOS 5.0 should be fine.
I guess it's the same with the new browser. No one knows when a stable version will come out. I love the blow-by-blow of trying to build it, and even to move to a newer version, but I don't need a prediction of when the hangs and other problems will be solved. I just need to know when to press the update button.
Mentore:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 13, 2023, 09:18:09 pm ---I don't think its wrong for Arca Naoe to say they are working on a new operating system version, or what features it will have. But I don't want them to announce that it is nearly out. That kind of announcement is pretty discouraging to re-sellers.
By the way, I'm posting from the "mythical" 5.1. If you need GPT or UEFI, this is a good change. If you don't, ArcaOS 5.0 should be fine.
I guess it's the same with the new browser. No one knows when a stable version will come out. I love the blow-by-blow of trying to build it, and even to move to a newer version, but I don't need a prediction of when the hangs and other problems will be solved. I just need to know when to press the update button.
--- End quote ---
I completely second this assertion of yours. I have seen all kinds of gigantic failures in the past years, from the Sinclair QL to Apple Lisa, NeXT and other "next big things" which should have revolutioned the computing world but were announced too early, or were too different from the advertised product.
I am following the discussions here and am eager to be able to update my ArcaOS distribution, but having almost zero spare time it's pretty much difficult for me even to fire up a Virtualbox session, let alone installing ArcaOS on a bare metal machine (I have almost five dual core / i3 machines which need just some RAM and a HDD to work...).
Mentore
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