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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - General => Events => Topic started by: David McKenna on February 17, 2025, 02:15:17 am
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Has English, German, Spanish and Russian versions. Installed my English update in less than 5 minutes, but install.flg says it was updated to 'ArcaOS 5.1.0 en', so I wonder if there is no difference with version 5.1.0 in the English version (the ISO says 5.1.1).
Be interesting to hear how other language users get on with their installation...
Regards,
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As far as I understand, mostly small incremental changes for English, Xworkplace for example has been updated. I'll report the install flag bug.
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Hello.
Here it is the official announcement:
- https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-1-1-now-available/
As far as I know it has some updates like XWP and CWMM. The announcement points to this site (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/) to check for the changelog, but sadly it is not available yet for 5.1.1.
Give 5.1.1 a try and provide feedback !!! I'm generating my ISO right now.
Regards
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Has English, German, Spanish and Russian versions. Installed my English update in less than 5 minutes, but install.flg says it was updated to 'ArcaOS 5.1.0 en', so I wonder if there is no difference with version 5.1.0 in the English version (the ISO says 5.1.1).
Be interesting to hear how other language users get on with their installation...
Regards,
Lewis said you need to request a new ISO as he figures you have a 5.1.0 one
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Good, change history link is now posted
- https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/change-history-arcaos-5-1/
Check all the updated in 5.1.1
Regards
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I've downloaded AOS 5.1.1. However, I can't figure out how to UPGRADE my system. I can go through all the installation options, but the installer warns me it will format my boot disk. That's not something I wish to do, obviously!
Can anyone tell me how to UPGRADE from 5.1 to 5.1.1?
Thanks in advance!
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Well it worked like a charm for me. Be sure you read the install options and select the update box on or near the bottom of the type of install you want. This is on the 3rd of 4th screen. But I am not sure.
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Thanks for the advice! I missed that checkbox to upgrade/update rather than install. When I selected it everything went fine1
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Well it worked like a charm for me. Be sure you read the install options and select the update box on or near the bottom of the type of install you want. This is on the 3rd of 4th screen. But I am not sure.
On a couple of systems, the Update/update has been greyed out. Exiting the installer and running a chkdsk on the boot drive resolves this.
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Thanks Dave - I got a new ISO and this one installed fine and shows it is 5.1.1 in my VirtualBox. Now to install on some real hardware...
Regards,
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Hello
Any first impressions about ArcaOS 5.1.1 ?
Here it works fine in my VirtualBox VM (7.1.6 - Windows Host). I did a clean install and I can not find any new issue.
OSNews posted something about it: https://www.osnews.com/story/141738/arcaos-5-1-1-released/
Regards.
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This is a small thing, but I think it's kind of cool. If you boot the new ArcaOS 5.1.1 installer in VirtualBox, notice that the mouse is integrated. You can move them mouse between the host and guest seamlessly, because Amouse now supports running under VirtualBox.
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I am very satisfied with the German version. Runs even more smoothly under VBox. Dooble is also making good progress, so I plan the productive use again. Thanks to everyone involved!
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Hello
What graphical changes in ArcaOS 5.1.1 do you think it can be listed in the OS2World wiki as a screenshot?. Now that ArcaOS has XWP 1.0.17 (from 1.0.15) I have the following:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=ArcaOS_5.1.1_Screenshots
Please, people with ArcaOS 5.1.1 in Spanish, German and Russian are welcome to post their screenshot for the wiki.
What else produced a visual change in 5.1.1 that deserve a screenshot? (Compared to 5.1.0)
Regards
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Please, people with ArcaOS 5.1.1 in Spanish, German and Russian are welcome to post their screenshot for the wiki.
OK... My ArcaOS systems are somewhat bland-looking, because I have been busy and couldn't spend much time customizing my Desktops (yet). However, what stands out the most in Russian systems is obviously the omnipresent Cyrillic alphabet, so that might be enough for the moment being. Here you are:
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Now, Spanish doesn't look as spectacular visually with no funny letters <g> and the stock ArcaOS look, but if you pay a little attention*, you will see quite some effort has been put into this NLV. Not only are (almost!) all new, non-IBM components fully and properly localized, but IBM's old MCP2 core translation is slowly but surely being revamped too. This is not finished yet, but I can tell you the user experience is already better than it ever was, and you can expect it to remain so in upcoming releases. Seeing a freshly installed system show an improved translation compared to previous versions is always a plus to me, but I'd like to see what other Spanish speakers have to say!
*You might even find a couple of Easter eggs ;-)
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Thanks Alfredo
Both pictures look great. I had include those on the wiki: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=ArcaOS_5.1.1_Screenshots
Alfredo, which are the name of the two widgets that you have at the bottom? the one on the left with the icons and the one on the right with the hour?
Regards
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which are the name of the two widgets that you have at the bottom? the one on the left with the icons and the one on the right with the hour?
For my own standard setup I move the one XCenter I keep to the upper part of the screen, so at the bottom I don't have any widgets, but standalone floating windows. On the left, lSwitcher (standalone version); on the right, SysBar/2, still good unmodified after 21 years of service. This screenshot should illustrate my main configuration lines for both.
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How did you change the colors on the clock portion of Xcenter?
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Actually I do it programmatically for every installed system, deleting the XCenter and creating a new one with the following setup string:
POSITION=TOP;BORDERSPACING=0;REDUCEDESKTOP=YES;WIDGETS=XButton(),TasksWidget(),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_LOCKUPSTR>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_FINDSTR>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_SHUTDOWNSTR>%3B),Pulse(WIDTH%3D154%3B),Tray(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BWIDTH%3D134%3BCURRENTTRAY%3D0%3B){Tray 1[ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_DRIVES>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_CONFIG>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_PROMPTS>%3B)]},WindowList(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BTEXTCOL%3D000000%3BFILTERS%3DSysBar/2 Pipe Monitor#~^°@lSwitcher#~^°@FTP server%3B),Power(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BTEXTCOL%3D000000%3BWARN%3D15%3BREPEAT%3D5%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_ASSISTANCE>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<C:\Sys\bin\calendar.exe>%3B),XWLANMonitorWidget(),Time(BGNDCOL%3D000000%3BTEXTCOL%3D00FF00%3B),AN_RemMedia();OPEN=26599;OBJECTID=<XWP_XCENTER>;
but you can also do it by hand, dragging colors from the Solid Color Palette (folder Appearance under System Setup) to drop them onto the Time widget. Ctl+drag to change the foreground, simple drag for the background.
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AHHH, thank you for the info. I wasn't aware you could do that.
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How did you change the colors on the clock portion of Xcenter?
Usually drag and drop colors from the "Farbpalette" (color palette?) is the OS/2 way to do such things. Dropping without any key is usually background I think and with <SHFT> is text color. I've ever try it out cause I don't remember. With the xwidgets this works.
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ArcaOS 5.1.1 in "Deutsch" ...
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Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.
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Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.
I have two test installs and neither had it. I booted the AOS installer and found that the VNC option is not selected by default (I thought it was in past versions). Regardless, it's easy to install after-the-fact:
Double-click on the ISO to mount it. On the newly mounted drive navigate to 'x:\CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG', then dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.
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Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.
There. The outside system has the viewer connected to another system running at a lower resolution, with the server properties notebook open.
Did you check "VNC server" during installation? I can't recall whether it is selected by default.
Edit:
[...]dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.
I remember now that it is not, and this is probably why.
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Now I see it. I have loaded this vnc server and client. I had been using two different java vnc clients for different servers. Both worked but would get rendering issues from time to time. This new vnc client looks like a native OS/2 client and has a clean window. The only odd thing I see is the mouse prompt is a strange blurb. Also the documentation is rather short and does not list some of the finer points on usage. One is the the host display number can actually be a full port number instead. What I have not tried is how the new client handles the encryption used in some new Linux servers which break the java clients.
Double-click on the ISO to mount it. On the newly mounted drive navigate to 'x:\CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG', then dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.
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Thanks for the Pictures:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=ArcaOS_5.1.1_Screenshots