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Martin Iturbide:
Hello

Yes, again, the typical thread for brainstorming about the future of OS/2 and ArcaOS.

On Dec of 2023 I sent the attached wish list document to Lewis based on past discussions.

Today ArcaOS is running on UEFI and finally has some language localizations like German, Spanish, and Russian.

It seems to me that the top requirements from the perspective of the OS are still:
1) Modern web browser
2) Wifi Driver.

What do you think it is missing or what had changed from 2023's wishlist to today?

On the other hand, what else can it be interesting to do as a community?

Regards

Mentore:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on March 19, 2025, 06:39:14 pm ---Hello

Yes, again, the typical thread for brainstorming about the future of OS/2 and ArcaOS.

On Dec of 2023 I sent the attached wish list document to Lewis based on past discussions.

Today ArcaOS is running on UEFI and finally has some language localizations like German, Spanish, and Russian.

It seems to me that the top requirements from the perspective of the OS are still:
1) Modern web browser
2) Wifi Driver.

What do you think it is missing or what had changed from 2023's wishlist to today?

On the other hand, what else can it be interesting to do as a community?

Regards

--- End quote ---

Being both a developer and an user, I can see from both sides.
Yes, we need drivers and yes, we need a modern web browser.
For these targets to be, eherm, targeted, we need developers.

It seems to me that on OS/2 we have gone back to the '80s era, when there was no software and you had to build it yourself. This is pretty bad-looking from a common user's point of view: we are really used to the plain and simple "I need some software to do XY, I search on the 'net for XY, I find the software, I install it, I'm more or less satisfied, case closed". This is not really the case on OS/2.

So something good to do would be to nurture a little more our shrinking developers' community.
I'm really afraid this would be a HUGE task, but I feel this should be some starting point to try and obtain something more from this old beloved beast.

Mentore

Andi B.:
My top priorities would be -
1) stable operation on Ryzen7 either with integrated graphic or external (at least AMD B550) without trap when Virtualaddresslimit is above 1536 and 3140x2160 resolution. If you see the ticket you know what I mean in detail.
2) solving PM (GPI, gradd, Panorama, ??) problems which leads to no window update anymore after some time or when memory gets low (usually seen with VBOX running, but pretty sure not a VBOX problem only, but mem management and graphic)

Regarding browser I fear we never ever will have a browser with the features I need (I'm used to) again. So no priority for me. Dooble works to some extend and I appreciate the efforts made here. But it never will get the features I'm used to from SM or FF.

Silvan Scherrer:
As long as we can't fix the memory issues (4GB border), everything else is more or less useless. And I doubt we ever get this one fixed.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello.

--- Quote from: Silvan Scherrer on March 20, 2025, 03:39:47 pm ---As long as we can't fix the memory issues (4GB border), everything else is more or less useless. And I doubt we ever get this one fixed.

--- End quote ---

I guess that just as USB 3 or UEFI was a blocker to run OS/2, I guess this is our new blocker. Not a blocker to run OS/2 on hardware, but to have modern software compiled on it.

Regards

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