This is good. Which are the components? tell me your "wish list" on the "adding things or replacing single components" priority. Which is the specific things that needs to be prioritized? (in your opinion).
Well, I use os/2 (eCS) now for around 20 years. And I have to say my current system, is the best os2 system I ever had during this time.
I'm using a Intel 2700MUD board with DuoCore 2 x 2,1 GHz, onboard graphics and lan.
Here are some details:
http://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-d2700mud.htmlhttp://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1224Its a fanless and silent device. I have 4 GB RAM and I use SSD harddisks. Boot time <30sec. USB, LAN and sound is working.
4 GB RAM are more than enough and SSDs are far away from 2 TB limit.
The thing is I used Win and OS2 on one computer years ago and then I also had to choose hardware for both, Win and OS2 or eCS. And this caused trouble. Since some years I just use 2 computers so I'm able to use hardware that doen't need to care about Windows or other systems. And eCS needs no highend hardware I can use a dualcore system with very good performance. For Win/Lin I just use a second computer, but actually I use Win only for some games - I do
all work on eCS.
I use eCS on a daily base and I run my business on it.
So at this moment I'm doing pretty fine. Of course there are some things which could be better - and of course there should be a future.
I would like to have better video play support. Holger wrote on os2.org that hes working on bug fixes in Presentation Manager DLLs to make this happen (some VLC problems on multi core systems result from PM bugs and not from VLC itself). Thats damn great. So my first which is a fixed PM and my second thing is a fixed VLC aswell. In general I wish a stable system.
Another thing really bothers me is that I can't read USB sticks (and other devices) if a mate comes around and hes using Win, Lin or Mac. The USB Sticks will be recognized as super floppies and then they don't work without to be partioned and format on os2. There are lot of barriers using USB devices. This should be easier to change data between systems. Same problem for USB mp3 players, cameras, sd cards etc.pp. Generally the combination of USB support and files systems should be much better.
I would also have to better font rendering, better font support with full TrueType and OpenType for usage on screen and print - incl. embedding TT and OT fonts into PDF files using ePDF/Ghostscript. Gostscript supports it but our print system does not (I dont know situation on cups I never - I used it).
A problem I see coming around in near future might be Firefox since the performance of FF is getting slower and slower. This seems to be problem of FF itself and not of the port - FF just tuns into blown software. There are also problems with server scripts and JavaScript. It works ok at this moment (thanks to bitwise) but my computer might be too slow in near future. And new computers leads to new problems. So of course my which is in general good hardware support (a wide field for sure). I don't know what kind of hardware we will have in 5 years so it is hard to say what we need.
Maybe we will need a new TCPIP stack for the next IP, maybe old IPv will be supported aswell.
Other things I would like to have are things on application layer. I would like to have things like DVDFab, a fixed Maul DTP, some missing features at Mesa.