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Networking / Re: SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Igor on July 02, 2025, 09:10:18 pm »
It is log files from client.
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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on July 02, 2025, 06:01:32 pm »
Hello

I found on some old online CD's "Champion for OS/2" which seems to be a Japanese IBM Works/Office alike software.
Seems to belong to IBM, MicroBurst and MetaSoft. Does anybody remembers if this was freeware or commercial?

Regards
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Networking / Re: SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Igor on July 02, 2025, 05:49:50 pm »
What Samba client are you using?

I use client 3.07.1 from 28 Jul 2020.
From distibutive ArcaOS.
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Programming / Re: Brainstorm: OS/2 on a Different Kernel
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on July 02, 2025, 05:48:44 pm »
Hello jmase. It is good to see you around.

I don't have answers, just opinions  :D

What do Haiku OS, OpenBSD, Redox OS, ReactOS (and so on) have in common? They are opensource.
And they all have a active development community.
Just as FYI:
- HaikuOS (Microkernel)uses "NewOS kernel" developed by Travis Geiselbrecht. Travis worked on the BeOS kernel, Haiku OS Kernel and now he is working at Google in the FuchsiaOS project (Possible on the Zircon Kernel)
- ReactOS (Microkernel) has  the "ntoskrnl" which is a kernel to be compatible with the NT Kernel.
- Redox OS (Microkernel) has a kernel made in rust.
- OpenBSD (monolithic)
I agree, if it is open source it has a better change to survive over time.

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Opensource could make it interesting for people to look how it was made, get new people interested
in creating a modern (64bit) OpenOS/2.
You all know I'm a supporter of Open Source since a lot of time. Open source allowed us to keep using OS/2 today, we had took a lot of the Open Source community. It is not for me as "Open = Good" and "Close = Bad", it is more like "Open = Better", since it is better to have the source code and binaries instead of only the binaries.

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Maybe a petition to IBM to opensource what they can would work now, so many years has passed...
(or ask them if the leaked sources can be used ;)
I am tempted to request it again to IBM, this time Arvind Krishna, the OS/2 sources, or partial sources, the OS/2 PowerPC source,  permission for the leaked source or even a license change to the IBM device driver kit source code that can be open source friendly... anything. But it is possible that we did not get a reply or something similar of the last time with Sam Palmisano, but you know the expression " ‘No’ is Guaranteed ", so what can we loose asking again?

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The kernel used should be the Linux kernel, not that its a great kernel but its actively developed, supports almost all hardware and there are tons of people who knows how it works. Implementing support for things like 16bit apps on a modern OS is not easy,
but using a really well known kernel with loads of developers would help.
I always loved the "Microkernel" idea and even the "Workplace OS" idea. I even think that the Android fragmentation problem was in part because of the Linux monolithic kernel (accompanied with the manufacturers that were so profit oriented and didn't want to compile new versions on the old devices). But I have to agree that the Linux kernel is widely used and possible the best option. I think it is the best shot because there is more knowledge of that kernel in general.

Regards
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Networking / Re: SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Igor on July 02, 2025, 05:44:21 pm »
And did you have disabled EA support?
Yes, disabled in client driver.
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Programming / Brainstorm: OS/2 on a Different Kernel
« Last post by jmase on July 02, 2025, 05:03:37 pm »
What do Haiku OS, OpenBSD, Redox OS, ReactOS (and so on) have in common? They are opensource.
And they all have a active development community.

Is the OS/2 source needed to put OS/2 on another kernel?
Strictly no, but the source would help alot to understand how apps talk to the kernel.

Opensource could make it interesting for people to look how it was made, get new people interested
in creating a modern (64bit) OpenOS/2.

Maybe a petition to IBM to opensource what they can would work now, so many years has passed...
(or ask them if the leaked sources can be used ;)



The kernel used should be the Linux kernel, not that its a great kernel but its activly developed,
supports almost all hardware and there are tons of people who knows how it works.
Implementing support for things like 16bit apps on a modern OS is not easy,
but using a really well known kernel with loads of developers would help.


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Networking / Re: SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Andi B. on July 02, 2025, 11:37:39 am »
And did you have disabled EA support?
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Networking / Re: SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Paul Smedley on July 02, 2025, 10:44:46 am »
What Samba client are you using?
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Applications / Re: Mouse Cursor disapear.
« Last post by Jan-Erik Lärka on July 02, 2025, 09:13:47 am »
The mouse pointer (image) seen on the screen disappear, but the function still is there.

Move our mouse repeatedly so it en upp in the lower left corner (if xCenter is positioned there), lift the mouse if you have to between movements. The bubble help will appear over the button it hoover.

Click on the X/OS/2-Warp/eCS/ArcaOS-button and use the keyboard to navigate to the Program->Utilities->Text Editor
Once it start successfully as mentioned the mouse pointer image apoear again.

Another way is to try to click on the desktop, press P on the keyboard, Enter, U, Enter, T, Enter... unless there is another folder/program object that start with the letter that you may need to compensate for.
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Networking / SMB server Linux and ArcaOS
« Last post by Igor on July 02, 2025, 04:47:31 am »
I put an SMB server on Rapsberry.
Everything is fine. The user made, the axis comes in, logs, sees resources, reads.
But he writes strangely. File Commander begins to write a file and writes to the very end, and at the end reports that there is no rights. What?
If you create a file from the text editor, then it will be recorded and preserved.
If you copy through the PM file, it is copied.

Is it possible to fix it and how?
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