I *THINK* similar to Odin - and code has been ported back and forth between the two if memory serves (or had been at one time). Check out the Odin pages on NetLabs...
Okay, cause I was wondering if porting WINE would be a good place to start, or would it be best to just look to the windows DLL files first and port from there. Again, I donno what Im talking about...
Actually, yes they do. Almost the entire OS can be interchanged... drivers, TCP/IP, NetBIOS, GUI, CMD sessions, task handlers, you name it). It's ALL modular. I can install Warp 3, and then the Warp Server components from WSeB (3 releases later). I can install eCS drivers under Warp 3 and 4 (which I have done on my laptop, then went to WSeB. I can install Warp 3 drivers on WSeB and eCS. No problems. Only some very ancient drivers (usually OS/2 1.x drivers) wont work because they were made for 16bit OS/2 on 16bit hardware (locks memory above 16MB).
Tasty hat

(as in im eating my hat because I was very much wrong)
IBM is still working on OS/2. Unless you have a support contract with them, or buy eCS, you wont see those updates. It still requires as little hardware. Where do you think the kernel and networking updates have come from, or the numerous device driver fixpacks?
I do have the Service plan from eCS, why I have the betas

I knew those updates came from IBM, but I was pretty certain that they have stopped developing and fixing after the support period ended in 2005 or 2006. They havnt?
If you have (or buy) a software support contract, they'll gladly talk to you and help you a dozen different ways, and provide you with a number directly to someone who knows OS/2 inside and out. Cheaper to buy eCS and deal with Serenity - who if they cant help, can call IBM for an answer that wont cost you a massive IBM support contract.
This was pre-eCS, and partially helped me decide to get eCS because I wanted another OS, and OS/2 wasnt installing.
Yes, driver support is an issue with eCS 1.2MR... and eCS 2.0 is still beta. Some machines (like my Netfinity) are a dream. A lot of new machines I have installed for clients have been a dream, while a bunch have been a pain in the butt (non-standard SATA support, funky, uber-generic gigabit ethernet, etc).
^ That is EXACTLY what I fear in purchasing a new computer. I know XP will be fine with it.
Which card? Have you tried the GenMAC drivers or Chuck McKinnis' NicPak? If not, there is one other place that helped me find drivers for just about anywhere... dont remember the link off the top of my head, but it is in a Thinkpad T23 topic that's recently been on the board (3 days ago was the last post).
I tried GenMac but there are too many for MPTS to work and I didnt learn how to work around that until after I left it at home. I have a Microsoft MN-720 and a Belkin Wireless 54g Revision B. I think they should be supported, but I have not had the chance to try driver by driver yet.
I use it for games, and the odd PDF creation that OpenOffice for OS/2 bombs on (because I am too lazy to install ePDF which would achieve the same results on OS/2).
Gotta have my games. I dont generate PDFs, except through my HP scanning software. Only time I have needed it so far was when I scan my work in, and it does it for me..
Sane & Tame for OS/2. Works great, supports a ton of scanners. Printing - either native OS/2 drivers, or CUPS. Covers pretty much everything. Yeah, pain to install... but will do the job. I think a lot of that will be installed automatically when eCS 2.0 (and CUPS) is finished.
Have Sane/Tame, thus far, no luck. No scanning on the models I have tried. eCUPS I have not tested because, well, its not a neat little GUI thinger yet and I dont want to frig anything else up.
"Media players (hardware)"? Not sure what you mean. OS/2 plays as much media (more actually)... but just requires a decent GUI for the players. Pretty easy to integrate them all into the WPS though for easy playing of anything. Does need a Flash plugin update... but Paul Smedley is finishing that as we speak (gnash).
I wouldnt say more. DirectShow filters are very easy to find for almost all non-WMP supported codecs and containers, and once they are installed, its very nice. None of my multimedia plays in the WPS like it should, and by hardware media players I meant digital audio devices and portable media players

Yeap, amped about Paul's GNASH and hopefully Firefox plugin to replace Innotek flash 7. w00ts. As for audio player, I use pm123 though it has a tendency to tank on large directories or not share the audio properly and lock up waiting.
Yeah, games support is lacking. For now. Odin would need a lot of work to fix that... and with DirectX having changed (massively) again, it's back to the drawing board.
Id say skip DX10, and work on DX9 support for Odin. Hell, go OpenGL too. It supports most of the stuff I want to run anyway. Plus, OS/2 already had an OpenGL implementation, so we have a starting point. Oooo, would that be a realistic bounty? A modern, current port of OpenGL? No MesaGL software render crap.
From what I understand, this is done or near finished... I'll make a post if I find out more. Though why they created a proprietary format for media-over-network, I dont know... (oh, yes I do... lock out other OS's). Something is being ported from the Linux world if memory serves.
MTP does have some advantages, I posted a bounty suggestion for a implementation for MTP (I got flamed relentlessly on the ecomstation news boards talking about it). PTP is supported through Cameraderie and another application, though I believe it should be through the WPS so the camera mounts as a device in the drives object or on the desktop. I hate having all this extra software to do stuff :\
What type printer? It probably can. I will try to help you get it working.
What type scanner (Sane and Tame have come a long way)?
Hewlett Packard PSC 1210xi All-in-one, on eCS is all-in-none

No luck with Sane/Tame. I have heard that the omni driver can support my printer, but I have tried a good 10 entries in the HP omni driver and no luck.
I have Illustrator 9 working under a very old version of Odin (thus should work with newer versions of Odin as well). Also, check out Pixel for OS/2, Embellish, and GIMP (v2.2.
GIMP is much like Photoshop.
Pixel is expensive. Embellish I dont like using (too confusing), GIMP for everblue did not work well at all. I dont know how to use xFree86 so :\ Queency is the only thing that was half-way decent and easy to use, but it crashes all the friggin time.
Try SIM for OS/2 - much more AIM like (though file transfer is still unfinished). Very pretty, some neat plugins, and nice features.
http://eros2-dev.blogspot.com/2007/03/sim-for-os2.html

SIM is the reason why I want to help Marty make MrMessage better and more powerful. No offense to eros, but SIM is absolute crap. Its crap under windows and eCS, I think its just the program. It will murder your buddy lists, destroy profiles, and does not actually send or recieve messages well, nor does the file transfer work. It looks pretty, and that is all. MrMessage is the only viable option for OS/2.
Will install, and will work properly from that list. eCS v2 will also take advantage of the multicore (been a lot of ACPI updates in the last few weeks).
Yeah, been watching it. I have the latest ACPI of 3.03 right now. Too bad SNAP is dead, I want hardware support for the newer Nvidia cards :\
Most definitely. VirtualPC is great for many of my day to day tasks (well, I rarely use it, except to test things in IE... but I could use it for Photoshop, etc if I didnt have OS/2 equivalents installed)... but VPC sucks for many games, and sound support is kinda sketchy for most sound cards.
Virtualization is not an option for me :\
Near impossible based off the manpower needed. Now, if something promising materializes on the Linux front, that may change. If there is something portable from Linux to OS/2, then we do have a few very talented people who may be coerced into doing the port. But not enough of them to maintain Odin at the level it needs to be at. 
Damn :C
No, not really... with Linux gaining momentum, eCS can as well... since it is pretty easy to get Linux software running under OS/2 (and Linux ports fly under OS/2 just like they do under Linux... that's where KMP, mPlayer, and I think SIM came from).
Yeah, all decent applications, they feel lacking though. They need a PM native GUI interface, right now, they just feel slapped on, and they are.
Again, easily changeable... with WPSWizard and xWorkplace in the new version of eCS, it'll hardly be dated in appearance - and yet keep the functionality and extendability that the Windows UI STILL lacks. That was something else I didnt understand... MS has a license to use the OS/2 GUI code in whole or part... they could have at least grabbed the part that handles shortcuts, and pop-up menu extendability... yet they didnt and that part of Windows is still broken... from Win95 till now.
Yeah, I like many things about OS/2, but I greatly dislike not having a persistent navigable window with back/foward. Im too used to it, and its a pain for me to not have it in OS/2.
But getting far better pretty quickly. Soon virtually every network card, (already) most video cards, (already) most sound cards, (already) virtually any hard drive mobo chipset, (soon) virtually every printer, (already) many scanners.
Not the cards Im looking at. Panorama makes no metion of Nvidia cards, and Snap stopped after the 6600 for Nvidia. Im intel/Nvidia all the way, so I feel like Im kinda stuck.
Suggest open source Linux apps to be ported... there is a pretty good porting team here. Check the forums for a list of ones already suggested.
Donno enough about Linux, only used Ubuntu for a few days, then went back to eCS. My base is Windows, so the apps I will want will be from there, for better or worse.
Heh... YOU apologize? Like *I* didnt ramble on in my last post? I will accept your apology for rambling if you accept mine for rambling... hows that? 
-Robert
Accepted.
So Odin is a yes, but I still donno how/if post a bounty? Does it need one?