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Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?

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Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Klafi on March 21, 2025, 10:13:54 pm ---What would need to be changed in ARCAOS to have a modern network?

**ChatGPT Response:**
To implement or improve a modern network in ArcaOS, several changes and enhancements would be necessary, as ArcaOS (a development of OS/2) has a more limited network architecture compared to modern operating systems like Windows or Linux. Here are some key changes that would need to be made:

1. **Updating the Network Stack Software**:
   - **TCP/IP Stack**: ArcaOS uses the "IBM TCP/IP for OS/2" stack, which has not been maintained for a long time. Updating or switching to a more modern network stack (e.g., `inetd` or an open-source project) could improve network performance and compatibility.
   - **IPv6 Support**: The current TCP/IP stack in ArcaOS only supports IPv4. To support modern networks, IPv6 would need to be implemented or at least complemented with a compatible IPv6 stack.

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This is really the main thing, most of the other points are already covered or things like WiFi, a different discussion.

David McKenna:
 I agree the 2 main needs are #1: Browser and #2:WiFi. But like Dave points out there are other currently lesser needs (like IPv6) that may become urgent as time moves on. Also it seems there are other hardware issues becoming apparent - I have a new motherboard that does not have anything for IRQ0, and so has very weird timing issues, as well as only 800MB memory below 4GB. This forced me to go with a VM in Windows - wasn't happy about that.

  Have a possibly dumb question, not being a programmer: is it possible to produce OS/2 executables with GCC inside of Linux? If so, would make compiling large apps easier, no?

Regards,

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: David McKenna on March 22, 2025, 12:56:56 am ---  Have a possibly dumb question, not being a programmer: is it possible to produce OS/2 executables with GCC inside of Linux? If so, would make compiling large apps easier, no?

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In theory, it is quite possible. In practice, it would mean recompiling most of our tool chain on Linux as Linux binaries as a start, using our headers and libs and who knows what else. How much porting would be required in the recompilation is unknown, we'd also be porting to 64bit. There may be a chicken and egg problem too, needing cross compiled tools to cross compile.

ivan:
Rant !!

I may be a lone voice in this discussion bur what I would like to see is the removal of the RPM/YUM abomination from our Operating System.  We had/have a very good method of installing programs - warpin which does not require OS/2 to pretend to be linux which it is not.  Those that want to play with linux would be better installing  linux and using that.

Rant over.

Eugene Gorbunoff:
To Ivan:  RPM/YUM relates to linux libraries & software only. If you don't use ported software then you never use RPM/YUM.  There was resistance to all this linux stuff in ~ 2011. But it flooded OS/2 and you can't change this. The porters need this infrastructure else they can't put everything to order.

2015 - ArcaNoae have integrated RPM/YUM to ArcaOS.

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