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Article Discussions / Re: Blue Lion by Arca Noae
« on: November 12, 2015, 12:58:01 am »
David, that was one post after a two year silence that essentially said they had a problem and could the community help.

Those is not the signs you expect from an organisation that is actively promoting a product.

I reread the thread and don't see the reason as the post as just "getting help" - people offered help themselves from what I see. But I do see what you are saying that the lack of interaction with the community has been disappointing.
Honestly that is not exactly something new though.. I was pretty disappointed years ago with Serenity Systems too when I emailed the then owner Bob St. John about interest in promoting os/2 a a user desktop and he listed all the reasons it wasn't suitable as a desktop OS. He was only interested in enterprise.

Serenity was into os/2 solely for business reasons... and we the community have our own reasons :).. it would be nice if they would match up to some degree. Maybe Arca Noae will bridge the gap.

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Article Discussions / Re: Blue Lion by Arca Noae
« on: November 11, 2015, 11:08:29 am »
What evidence is there that eCS is still actively developed?

Well Joachim Benjamins  posted in July that he and some other developers are still working on ECS. Maybe there have been developments since then that I am not aware of though.

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Article Discussions / Re: Blue Lion by Arca Noae
« on: November 11, 2015, 02:18:39 am »
I hope they are successful as well.
I do wonder if with such a small community if it is good for two separate distributions (aka ECS vs Blue Lion) actively developed.. since it means the already small base is going to be split between the two which would limit revenue. Perhaps there is enough enterprise customers to go around though.

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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: November 11, 2015, 12:37:48 am »
At this very moment I am working on a difficult problem: For one of the larger eComStation customers we developed a Chinese version. This version works perfectly fine, except for the fact that whenever an USB keyboard is used the system hangs as soon as the WPS should appear. Very annoying and strange issue.  I will keep you posted on this.

Yes, USB in general is a bit flaky to say the least- definitely a great thing to work on. I ended up using ps/2 keyboards and mice to avoid the issue with ECS 2.1.
Thanks for updates and don't let certain negative voices keep you from participating in the community and continuing your work on ECS. We are truly all unique characters here :).. and sometimes it's just best to ignore noise when it gets too loud.


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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: November 11, 2015, 12:28:26 am »
Sorry if this sounds hard, it is intended to be, but there has been absolutely no information from Mensys or XEU for well over 2 years.  As a consequence of that don't expect to be welcomed with open arms unless you have something to actually show, something like a demo VM that shows all the abilities of eCS, connects to the local network and printers and allows the reading of disks in things like a NAS box.
I guess i'm not getting all the negativity - if XEU is now more interested in ECS that is a good thing for the os/2 community. And making a bunch of demands and negative statements on them is not exactly a great to reward them for that renewed interests.
Frankly as an acquiring company they didn't have a standing obligation to keep product lines going. Plenty of acquiring companies have long histories of discontinuing products all together.

I would blame the previous holders of Memsys for that more then XEU personally.
 I would love to know the back story though as Mensys appeared their hayday to be practically os/2 activists - very interested in the future of the OS, and then suddenly they sold out without talking to anyone... how did that happen exactly? Was it the choice of just the owner, just to "cash out" - or was there something more to it?
What made Mensys suddenly back away from their commitment to the community?

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As for rolling back the clock and going to Serenity Systems, there is another Serenity Systems, you know (without the hyphen in the domain name).

Ah.. didn't know there was any others. It looks they were acquired by another company - to take some staff & clients:
http://www.aldridge.com/blog/2012/06/28/the-aldridge-company-acquires-serenity-systems-inc/

So I don't think they intend to use the name anymore from the looks of it.
But, I can understand if you would rather avoid the whole possibility there.

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Applications / Virtualbox
« on: March 02, 2015, 06:55:55 am »
Is this the latest version of vitualbox that runs on ECS?:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/apps/virtual/vbox2-1.6.1-r9201-dbcsfix-20080604.zip

Does anyone know if shared networking is supported on it yet - meaning browsing the web over the VM.
I assume usb is still not supported.

According the the documentation there is issues with:
  - Host interface networking.
  - Internal networking.
  - USB proxying.

But i'm not sure if they mean networking and usb are completely not working, or have they made progress?

Thanks


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As is explained in the other thread, this is not the case, it seems the eComStation licensing deal is in the hands of XEU/Mensys.

Opps.. missed the other thread. Thanks for the info though.

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Hey Lewis-

I kind of like the name serenity systems better than Arca Noae personally.. Since you now apparently own the name have you considered actually switching to using it as your primary?

Just my 2cents.. maybe other people feel different about it including you :).

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Thus, people associate - to this day - Serenity Systems with eComStation, even though Serenity really had little or nothing to do with eComStation after 2007/2008.

Considering the about us page for ecomstation still credits serenity systems:
http://www.ecomstation.com/about_us.phtml

And the "visit our website" still links to serenty and not mensys.. I can't see how I would have expected people to think otherwise :). That should probably be changed considering it's claiming your newly acquired company is still responsible for ECS.

Not to mention Serenty nor Mensys ever really shared much of their internal changes.




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Just curious.. I just read the press release that they acquired serenity.. so does that mean they now own ecomstation too, meaning they are completely in charge of the ECS product?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: August 04, 2014, 06:12:44 am »
Most people tell that OS X is the modern OS that provides most of the needed features (and look and feel). Note that it's not any Linux distro which these people prefer.

That is about to change :), at least in my area since i'm going to be setting up linux desktops for people.
It's true it takes a lot more work than a mac to get it setup, but it runs very smooth once it is, and with a long release distro like centos you don't need to reinstall the OS for 10 years at a time if you don't want to.
Not saying linux is the best per say.. just saying I think people underestimate it and its possible future effect on technology.


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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: August 04, 2014, 06:00:11 am »
You can take a Ferrari's chassis, dash and seats, and stick them onto the innards of a Volvo... but what you end up with will not be a Ferrari. It might be a nice car, but neither Ferrari lovers nor Volvo lovers would likely be impressed.

I understand your position but personally don't think the analogy fits.. since it would actually be turning volvo into a Porsche :)..
Since we would have an awesome wps experience without buggy usb, firefox constantly crashing, buggy flash etc.

Using a better engine under the hood would mean things would just work, instead of constantly struggling to patch a proprietary code to get something that sorta works.
 
Like I said previously iv'e watched many open source projects grow small to big so i'm not sure what makes you think the same couldn't happen. You could have said no one would be interested in ReactOS or Freedos (I mean, there are plenty of dos versions out there), but people are.

Linux maybe wasn't the best choice though.. it probably does make sense to use a closer relative like reactos, which maintains some of the linage to the nt system history.



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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:43:17 pm »
becuase realized that arguing here makes completely no sense.

I support Martin's point of view.
Honestly your arguing is useful since it got us considering alternative kernels such as reactos which actually makes a lot of sense.
So if you have some thoughts feel free to share :)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: August 02, 2014, 08:24:33 pm »
I suppose we could consider hitching our wagon to the freedos people instead of a unix based kernel I suppose.
It would be closer to the true os/2 under the hood but it would require a lot more coding as far as creating a whole new gui, and all of the apps.

We would have to start from ground zero in that direction but it's better then holding on to a dead path.

Maybe there would be some way of using the x-server gui source code and getting it to run on a dos based system so we could use at least some of the linux development work?

I was recommending a linux/unix core since it would require a lot less work.

On the other hand people would be very intrigued by it and I could see getting a lot of people joining our flag with that move :).



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