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This was posted on Slashdot.org.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/12/157227/the-state-of-reactoss-crazy-open-source-windows-replacement

jeditobe writes with a link to a talk (video recorded, with transcript) about a project we've been posting about for years: ambitious Windows-replacement ReactOS: "In this talk, Alex Ionescu, lead kernel developer for the ReactOS project since 2004 (and recently returning after a long hiatus) will talk about the project's current state, having just passed revision 60000 in the SVN repository. Alex will also cover some of the project's goals, the development and testing methodology being such a massive undertaking (an open source project to reimplement all of Windows from scratch!), partnership with other open source projects (MinGW, Wine, Haiku, etc...). Alex will talk both about the infrastructure side about running such a massive OS project (but without Linux's corporate resources), as well as the day-to-day development challenges of a highly distributed team and the lack of Win32 internals knowledge that makes it hard to recruit. Finally, Alex will do a few demos of the OS, try out a few games and applications, Internet access, etc, and of course, show off a few blue screens of death."

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Help Wanted! - OS2World Wiki
« on: October 29, 2013, 04:41:26 pm »
Hi.

I will like to request help, any kind of help, on the OS2World Wiki.

I'm currently trying to bring more content to the OS2World Wiki, it can be from OS/2 software description, to hardware reviews, to complete articles, or just by surfing the wiki and fixing some typos.

To access the OS2World.com/wiki anybody that is registered to this forum, with the same userid and password can connect and collaborate to the wiki.

It does not matter if you have only one minutes at week or more time. For example in the wiki you can collaborate on your free time without problem.

Just remember that if you want to republish something from other author, you need his approval to release the content under the Creative Commons Share Alike license.

If anybody is interested please let me know.

Martin

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General Discussion / The Mascot
« on: October 09, 2013, 11:54:33 pm »
I remember that long time ago we used to have some discussion in a OS/2 forum, I don't think it was on OS2World but I'm not sure.

The discussion was if OS/2, eComStation (the Warp Community in general) should have a mascot, what should it be.
I even think there used to be a contest and some mascots showed up like "Captain Warp" and others.

I know it is not a critical discussion, but if I have to choose a mascot it will be an Elephant.

Why an Elephant?
Because it reminds me the OS/2 Warp evil registration screen that IBM made for all of us.

Remember this bad boy?



So an Elephant mascot inspired on this character will be good for me :)

What name should I put this Mascot?

I will name this mascot Art Chron, but just call it "Arty".  Remember why?

I don't know why this came to my mind, but If anybody remembers where I read this discussion long time ago, or if anybody has a link, please let me know. 

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Programming / Razor-Qt and OS/2
« on: September 28, 2013, 03:43:55 am »
I was checking some time ago the Razor-Qt project. Which is a Qt desktop environment.
http://razor-qt.org

I was hoping that it can be ported to OS/2, but checking its dependencies seems we are missing some:
https://github.com/Razor-qt/razor-qt/wiki/Dependencies


    Qt 4.6 or above (inluding QtDBus) - YES
    X11: - (very old?)
        libX11
        libXcomposite
        libXcursor
        libXdamage
        libXfixes
        libXrender
    libmagic (usually part of the "file" package) (No)
    zlib (Yes)

I'm not sure about the X11 stuff, I know we have some X11 ported but it is old.

It will be interesting to try to port this to OS/2-eCS but it don't seems feasible. Any comments from someone that has more development/porting experience?

Regards

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Article Discussions / eCS 2.1 as VirtualBox Guest
« on: September 13, 2013, 09:44:39 pm »
Hi.

I took some time to improve the "VirtualBox Guest" article on the OS2World Wiki.

If someone wants to add something or improve the article let me know. Plus all users registered to OS2World can access the wiki and edit the pages.

Regards


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I noticed this article thanks to Esther Schindler post on Slashdot.

It is a good article to read by Andy Lester.

Check it out: http://blog.smartbear.com/open-source/how-to-turn-your-pile-of-code-into-an-open-source-project/

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Article Discussions / EDM/2 - September Updates - IBM Publications
« on: September 07, 2013, 03:41:35 pm »
Hi Guys

Do you know any other IBM OS/2 related articles (development or architecture) that was published by IBM but it is not public anymore? (with the exception of any IBM Internal confidential documents)

I can give it a try to request IBM for re-publishing permission.

For example. I'm trying to find some OS/2 workshop materiales, the OS/2 certification book. Any suggestion of what do you know it exists is welcome.

Regards

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OS/2 and eComStation Open Source Software Catalog / Repository

Some told me that it was a waste of time others liked the idea.

I don't know but I have enjoyed uploading all this stuff to GitHub and checking some older OS/2 development projects on hobbes.

I'm still missing more applications, but I hope to keep uploading more.

I think it will be interesting for anybody to fork the projects, improve them a little bit and try to generate their own binaries for any reason at all, learning, continuing a project or just for fun.

If you want to see how to commit or clone a git repository check my little article on EDM/2 - Using Git under eComStation

Regards



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Applications / "Workplace Security" and "The Secure Workplace"
« on: July 14, 2013, 02:23:22 am »
Hi

I'm trying to get the names of the developers/owners of this two Workplace shell security software, but it is very hard to get the names behind the two companies. If anybody know the owners or people that used to work there please let me know.

The software are:

The Secure Workplace by Syntegration
and
Workplace Security by Maple Valley Software

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You all know that my final dream will be to have a formal open source OS/2 clone. I also guess that the majority of the OS/2-eCS community share the same dream, even that can only be called a dream.  But when I see projects like Haiku OS and ReactOS I see also that it is not impossible.

Since I want to move a little step closer to that dream I started a blog to share some ideas about it. And my first steps was trying to document at a high level the OS/2 architecture and try to find some points of where should we start.
http://openwarp.blogspot.com/

I proposed that it will be interesting to start an OS/2 clone from "Top to down" which means cloning WPS, SOM and PM. And after analyzing this three components I also proposed that will be interesting to start cloning WPS classes on top of IBM's SOM and IBM's PM. why?
  • WPS classes can be called as the core of WPS
  • WPS classes are an important way on how we interact with OS/2-eCS
  • eComStation can benefit from this project and improve it functionality, while also contributing to the open source project
  • Cloning WPS will be a strong political statement outside the OS/2 community that we are moving forward on an OS/2 open source clone.
  • We will move one step forward on having a long term strategy for the Operating System.

I also wrote some pitfalls on the blog about starting with a WPS Clone:
  • Developers... I don't have (yet) no one interested on the project. It is also hard to find developers with WPS and SOM skills.
  • Money. It will be very hard to find someone for free.
  • Any strange behavior (quirks) on IBM SOM will need to be supported until IBM's SOM can be cloned.
  • After a working clone of  WorkplaceShell is created, it will require future re-works/tweaking when the SOM and PM clones gets created.


Summary.
I want to see the possibility start a project to create an open source WPS classes full clone. I don't have development skills, I can't do it alone and I need developers, suggestions, funding and moral support :)

But I think that first I need to contact some developers with WPS/SOM skills to try to define a plan, costs, time frames and also evaluate the open source software that we currently have that can be re-used.

I'm open for suggestions.

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General Discussion / OS/2 Hardware Compatibility List.
« on: June 09, 2013, 07:28:20 pm »
Does anybody remembers if there was a newer list? I got this one from July 1995.  Was it ever a digital copy of it?


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General Discussion / OS2World Bounty System Clean-up
« on: June 08, 2013, 06:09:38 pm »
Hi.

I started at the beginning of may the Bounty System yearly clean up.

At OS2World.com we are planning to consolidate all the bounties money in the "OS2World Common Fund".  You all can check the rules of that funding and contribute to it via paypal.

Regards

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General Discussion / Hobbes directory structure re-organization
« on: May 30, 2013, 11:22:11 pm »
Hi.

I'm proposing a file structure reorganization at hobbes. I will like to have some discussion on the forum of what can be improved on the hobbes directory structure to store files.

I currently made a draft on Freemind about the structure based on the current one that hobbes use. I'm sharing this files for you to comment.  Fell free to modify it and present any option, or give any comments.

Regards
Martín

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Programming / WPS Classes - UML Design
« on: May 30, 2013, 12:48:57 am »
Here goes my first try to document the WPS classes in UML, using ArgoUML.

I still need to go deeper with the classes. My UML is very rusty, any suggestions if I'm doing it ok will be appreciated.


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