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Sigurd

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Discussion about future of eComStation
« on: 2009.07.16, 08:35:20 »
Hi all,

this is to let you know that there is a lively open discussion about this with special proposals. It is called "Plan B" and today I started the second step of it.

First step, a few days ago: http://de.os2.org/forum/diskussion/?list=122374

Brand new today:  http://de.os2.org/forum/diskussion/?id=122485

While written in German please use google or something else to translate!

Suggestions, Opinions, Participation PRO / CONTRA highly welcome! For sure, you can write in english if you like!

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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #1 on: 2009.07.16, 21:18:29 »
Hi Sigurd

I was reading the os2.org threads but the translation with google kind of sucks (and I'm so lazy to read all the threads).

What I had read for the moment seems good ideas for the short term, like supporting new hardware, ACPI, AHCI, etc.

But thinking in the long term I think there should also be an strategy to open source OS/2 to remove any kind of future depency from IBM or Serenity. Sure, IBM will not open source it, but there is the idea to create an open source clone of it. I really envy how Haiku OS had open source BeOS and they now are offering some Virtual Machines to download the OS, sure it is not 100% usable/compatible yet, but at least they have the base to maintain BeOS in the future.

I really think we need to support the OSFree project and Voyager, think in the long term.

In the short term any kind of idea to get founding for hardware support and libraries like QT, GTK, SWT, JAVA ported will be great. But I really think that any new development should be open source, otherwise every slosed software development has the risk to became ABANDONWARE some day.

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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #2 on: 2009.07.16, 23:42:22 »
Agree. I can't wait for Haiku to have an ISO image. I miss BeOS/Zeta. I hope eCS takes this path.

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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #3 on: 2009.07.16, 23:45:31 »
For sure, you can write in english if you like!

If you seriously wants to get people involved; English should be the primary language and not German for this kind conversation....

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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #4 on: 2009.07.17, 08:39:20 »
Agreed, translating from German is very painfull, and lead to totall missunderstanidg.

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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #5 on: 2009.07.17, 10:53:58 »
Agree. I can't wait for Haiku to have an ISO image. I miss BeOS/Zeta. I hope eCS takes this path.

This path is very interested, even with not finished OS yet, Quake I, II and III ports to Haiku are ready and waiting. 
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Re: Discussion about future of eComStation
« Reply #6 on: 2009.07.17, 12:29:43 »
Heyda,

Agree. I can't wait for Haiku to have an ISO image. I miss BeOS/Zeta. I hope eCS takes this path.

...ehh... I have the ISO here (guess from June it is IIRC) and am running it under VirtualBox on XP SP2... works great. ...as far as I have tested, which is perhaps not _that_ much.

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