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There is this news on Slashdot:

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A day after the European Commission fined Google over Android, more details about Fuchsia, a new operating system the company has been working on for several years has emerged. From the report:

But members of the Fuchsia team have discussed a grander plan that is being reported here for the first time: Creating a single operating system capable of running all the company's in-house gadgets, like Pixel phones and smart speakers, as well as third-party devices that now rely on Android and another system called Chrome OS, according to people familiar with the conversations. According to one of the people, engineers have said they want to embed Fuchsia on connected home devices, such as voice-controlled speakers, within three years, then move on to larger machines such as laptops. Ultimately the team aspires to swap in their system for Android, the software that powers more than three quarters of the world's smartphones, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. The aim is for this to happen in the next half decade, one person said.

But Pichai and Hiroshi Lockheimer, his deputy who runs Android and Chrome, have yet to sign off on any road map for Fuchsia, these people said. The executives have to move gingerly on any plan to overhaul Android because the software supports dozens of hardware partners, thousands of developers -- and billions of mobile-ad dollars. [...] Still, Fuchsia is more than a basement skunkworks effort. Pichai has voiced his support for the project internally, said people familiar with the effort. Fuchsia now has more than 100 people working on it, including venerated software staff such as Matias Duarte, a design executive who led several pioneering projects at Google and elsewhere. Duarte is only working part-time on the project, said one person familiar with the company.


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Applications / Unicode Images on Firefox
« on: July 16, 2018, 11:04:32 pm »
Hi

Does anybody know what can be missing on the Firefox port or OS/2 to be able to display the Unicode fonts from this page:
http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html

Some are showing and the majority does not show. Is it something that is missing on OS/2's Unicode? Any idea or comment which component need to be update and how hard can it be so this will show?

Regards

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Applications / How to show minimized applications as icons.
« on: July 11, 2018, 04:03:35 am »
Hi

Playing with ArcaOS 5 shortcuts to create a little article on the wiki, suddenly I found that some minimized command line sessions started to show as icons (Check attached image). I did not get how I accomplished that. On the next reboot that way to show the minimized sessions disappeared.

Any idea how to turn on/off that ?

Regards

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Applications / ArcaOS - OS/2 keyboard shortcuts.
« on: July 03, 2018, 01:34:32 am »
Hi

I want  to consolidate the ArcaOS keyboard shortcuts on the OS2World wiki.  I would like to know which OS/2 keyboard shortcuts documentation do you know about?

On Google I had found:
- http://allhotkeys.com/os_2_hotleys.html
- http://aggedor.freeshell.org/os2key.html

Any other source with keyboard shortcuts that I may be missing?

Regards

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Off Topic discussions / Google invests $22 million in KaiOS
« on: June 29, 2018, 02:10:27 pm »
Hi

I was just reading the OSNews site and found this news.

It is interesting for me because I always thought that the investment in developing an operating system was very limited on this days.

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KaiOS Technologies Inc., developer of the emerging operating system for smart feature phones, KaiOS, today announced a $22M Series A investment from Google to help bring the internet to the next generation of users

There are some little details of the deal.
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In addition to the investment, Google and KaiOS have also agreed to work together to make the Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search available to KaiOS users. These apps have been developed specifically for the KaiOS platform, which is entirely web-based, using open standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.

KaiOS is based on Linux (Monolithic kernel) and Firefox OS which is strange because Google is also investing on other OS project called Fuchsia (Zircon kernel - Hybrid kernel). Maybe for Google 22M is only the tip for making an agreement to run their platform (Assistant, Maps, YouTube, and Search) on their OS.  Maybe DuckDuckGo can give some money for the Firefox port if we change the default search tool for the browser :)  -joke-

Anyways, it is always interesting for me to check out how all the OSes chips are moving and how are they evolving.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Translating ArcaOS to local languages
« on: June 19, 2018, 03:04:38 pm »
Hi

At the Warpstock Europe 2018 live stream I saw an Alex Taylor presentation about translating ArcaOS to local languages. In short Alex said which languages version of OS/2 Arca Noae has and which are missing. Arca Noae also opened the door for the community to help with translation and said that the translation made by the contributors will be part of the open source projects (like XWorkplace).

The video replay is not available yet, and I will like to see if I can translate some parts of ArcaOS to spanish, but I forgot which was the Arca Noae email to contact them and ask for instructions. Do you have it around? I also want to see how Arca Noae has organized the components that requires translation for ArcaOS to see where I should start.

Any other thoughts about translating ArcaOS to your local language?

Regards

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Article Discussions / Follow Bitwise on Twitter
« on: June 12, 2018, 07:53:02 pm »
Hi

I noticed that bww bitwise works is making some efforts to post more often on twitter about their OS/2 port of Qt 5 and other projects.

I recommend the people with smartphones and twitter to follow them. You can enable on an smartphone the little "bell icon" so you can get a notification on each tweet.

Also at OS2World I have the twitter account that post tweets about each news on the site.

Regards

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Off Topic discussions / Proof of Life !!
« on: June 02, 2018, 12:09:02 am »
It finally arrived after 5 months !! I just want to say that the Elephant is here and well.

I know nobody care, but I had created two wiki pages to celebrate this day !!

- IBM Stuffed Elephant

....as a tribute to the Elephant I also create the Elephant page.

Regards

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Programming / What talks to the kernel? - Character Device Driver
« on: May 29, 2018, 06:19:15 pm »
Hi

I know that everything talks to the kernel, but I want to know which OS/2 components talks with "Character Device Driver" to the kernel.

On the architecture knowledge I was able to get by reading some articles I know there are two.

1) CPI (Control Program Interface) is very linked to the OS/2 kernel and it is supposed to be base API for OS/2 applications. There is even some discussion that CPI and the kernel should not be separated, but as a learning methodology I find it ok to have them as two different components.

2) Drivers. They use kernel instructions (Kernel API?) to be able to perform their functions with the kernel.

But there is an area I always wondered which OS/2 basic OS applications (DLLs, or executables) communicate to the Kernel with logical drivers. (I think that is called as "logical driver", please correct me if I'm wrong) (Update: I think is called "Character Device Driver")

Thesus 4 gives me a list of "Character Device Driver" loaded.



For example on this article from PCWorld you can see this graphic.



So "MOUCALLS.DLL" is not talking directly to the kernel, it talks to a character device driver called MOUSE$. According to the article at PCMag it uses the DosDevIOCtl function to talk to the driver, and DosDevIOCtl is part of CPI, so it also communicating via CPI.

If some of my concepts are wrong please correct me, since I'm just reading about it.

So here comes the question. Is there any way to know for me that a DLL requires/calls a character device driver? For example, what procedure can I do to MOUCALLS.DLL, BMSCALLS.DLL (binaries) or any other DLL for it to let me know it requires/uses MOUSE$ ? Just think for a moment that I don't belive the documentation and I want to check it by myself.

Is there a way to do this with Theseus, lx2dump, pmdll or any other tool?

Regards

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Hi

I had started a new poll on the main OS2World site. I think it will be interesting to know more about what is missing in the drivers that ArcaOS already provides. I know we are missing a lot of new drivers, but for this thread I wanted to discuss what can be improved on the "already provided drivers" on ArcaOS.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Happy 1st Birthday ArcaOS
« on: May 15, 2018, 02:59:45 pm »
Hi

Today is the first birthday of ArcaOS. Version 5.0 was released on the 15 of may of 2017 (announcement and Wikipedia).
I'm hoping to write a more elaborate opinion what it was done right and what needs work, but I need more time to finish it.

Congratulations on the 1st year of the platform.

Regards

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Off Topic discussions / Fuchsia is not Linux
« on: April 13, 2018, 05:56:28 pm »
OSNews just published that Google's Fuchsia OS now have a more organized documentation:
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/the-book/

It is kind of interesting to see some OS that is not based in Linux and it that is not a Monolithic kernel.

For people like to have more deep knowledge of an OS, it may be interesting to read more about Zircon, the kernel of this OS. It is open source under the BSD 3 clause, MIT, Apache 2.0 licenses. It is not clear yet what Google is going to do with this OS.

Regards

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Hardware / SATA Controller Mode: Intel RST Premiun
« on: March 29, 2018, 03:28:01 pm »
Hi

I found this on the a Lenovo Yoga 910 machine. (Check attachment)

I can not install ArcaOS to try it out, but I guess that the workarround will be to put it on AHCI mode.

Does anybody has any experience with this "Intel RST Premiun" does it work on ArcaOS ? On Windows 10 it requires special drivers to be loaded on the installer, so I'm guessing it will not work for us.

Regards

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