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eComStation - OS/2 and the past 2010.

Started by miturbide, 2010.12.30, 17:42:24

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miturbide

Your Comments are Welcome. Happy New Year !!

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20434/1/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Thursday, 30 December 2010




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Radek

I am not authorized to view this resource. Therefore, no comments  ;D

miturbide

Sorry, wrong link. I had fixed it. The article is on the main OS2World.com page too.
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Pete

Hi Martin

Not sure that I agree with some of your comments. My own views are:

ACPI - still not working properly with this system; must use /PIC switch (or /APIC and /!NOD together which, basically, equates to using /PIC).

OpenOffice - the version supplied with ecS2.0GA is very crash prone here. Support has been non-existent and I will not be purchasing OO3.2 as a result - especially as Support has no idea whether the problems experienced with OO3.1.1 have been fixed but they suspect not.

Uniaud - not over impressed with progress. Most recent builds work but for some very strange reason these builds really slow down Klondike Solitaire when the cards are being dealt. This indicates some sort of problem that the uniaud drivers I currently use do not have.

Oh, and you forgot to mention Seamonkey - as far as I am concerned a much better alternative to the Firefox/Thunderbird combination  :-)


Happy New Year to all

Pete



DougB

I am also not sure that I agree with everything that was said, but that is normal.

ACPI is a total disaster. I have yet to see it do much more than allow power off at shutdown, and support SMP mode, and it seems to take a couple of years to get problems fixed on new hardware.

OpenOffice 3.2 seems to be quite good (and is free with eCS 2.0 - get CD3), but still lacks the required JAVA support <more below>.

UniAud is now working well, with most modern systems. There are still a few problems, but the mmfix thing, from Mensys, has cured the most annoying problem (repeating startup sounds). This fix seems to have fixed a few other things as well, like not being able to read a file during boot, or failure to shutdown properly.

I use PMMail for e-mail. It has made some major advances (and developed the odd problem along the way, but that is normal for an on going project). I also use Firefox (now the 4.0b8Pre version) for web browsing. I find that combination to be ideal for the way that I want to use my system.

FWIW, I don't miss Flash, at all, since Mediadownloader will download the files, and SMPlayer seems to play most of them quite well. However, since many misguided web pages seem to want to use Flash as a menu to their site, it is important to get that to work.

OpenJDK is looking promising. Hopefully, that will attach to OpenOffice, and cure the worst problem with that. Too bad that it took so long to get to this point.

eCUPS works well with those printers that it supports, but that is still not really good enough. Users want to be able to buy the cheapest printer, and have it work. I am not too sure what can be done about that.

QT4 seems to have produced excellent results.

We are still waiting for a more capable VBox, which would make life a little easier for those who need such a thing.

AHCI would seem to be the single most important thing that is still missing. Modern WiFi adapters also need support.

There are probably other things, but that is enough, for now. Happy New year to all...

miturbide

Sure, there can be criticisms to the projects I listed, but I consider them as the top releases/Updates for this community on 2010.

I agreed that SeaMonkey was also a good example of good releases on 2010, sorry I missed it on the article. On the other hand I don't use PMMail, so I can not comment on that.

About what is missing and what should be the priorities on 2011, I found the other thread on this forum (What are Your real priorytes ?) very interesting.

Just to list some (the list is extend but I want to summarize) in order

  • LVM Fix: feature of recognizing partitions, so any flash stick/external drive (phones, cameras, players) can be used normally without 'special preparing for LVM'
  • Flash Support
  • reliable USB Driver for Flash drives
  • Webcam Support
  • ACPI - stability on SMP systems
  • Video acceleration
  • Printer driver support
  • JAVA 6 (in the works, but not there yet)
  • AHCI disk support (in the works, but not there yet) - new SATA
  • Multi voice sound support (probably part of the UniAud plan, but not there yet)
  • ACPI - Proper power support
  • Network Adapter support
  • Large disk support (2 TB limit now, and 500 GB limit for boot drives)
  • Virtual machine options (the old VirtualBox just doesn't cut it)
  • Kernel: Increase 512MB shared memory limit.
  • updated Xserver
  • Printing which works inside Firefox ( I know it's coming)
  • Bug reporting/dump collection tool.
  • Enhanced pre-boot environment.
  • Open Office using Java support.
  • USB fixes and 3.0 support.
  • Any voice/video conferencing
  • Polishing on the GUI
  • WPA2 support that works at work
  • Firewire
  • Bluetooth
  • easy to use and understand VPN client solution
  • OpenGL
  • A video editing program
  • GIMP port
  • Open ACPI development to the public.
  • Full replacement for Boot Manager
  • IP 6 Support


...sorry Santa, the list is long for 2011 Christmas.
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