Warpstock EU 2020 Summery and Report

By Chris Quad

Day 1
The annual Warpstock kicked off yesterday in a new and different format. Due to everything related to Covid 19 the meeting was held virtually on Youtube with pre-recorded presentations by the speakers and Q&A via video conference afterwards.

Thanks to Roderick Klein pulling all the strings despite having suffered from mild Covid symptoms.

The line-up included Alex Taylor who talked about the UEFI bios update to boot ArcaOS on UEFI only systems. This has come a long way since last year. Alex was even able to demonstrate the successful installation of ArcaOS on a UEFI system as part of the presentation. Development of the UEFI support continues at pace and will be made available to all in the 5.1 release of ArcaOS. Hopefully more on this today as part of Lewis Rosenthal’s presentation.

There was a very informative presentation by Jan van Wijk on his Dfsee software. It was fascinating to see the development time-line over the life of the product and why he started developing this in the first place. And let’s not forget the guitars in the background which caused some discussion at the end.

Alex Taylor gave an overview of all the extremely useful software he has released over the last year with a hands on demonstration.

The first day was moderated and chaired by Roderick Klein who as always has put a huge amount of time and effort into Warpstock EU.

One of Roderick’s points and favourite quotes is “software do not grow on trees” so please consider any donation you are able to give. Be that big or small donations. See the various OS/2 related sites such as Arca Noae, OS/2 Voice etc. to give what you can.

Today we are looking forward to the superstar of the OS/2 world and the ArcaOS oracle Lewis Rosenthal for an update on the roadmap to 5.1 and beyond. There are further presentations by Bitwise Works (Dmitriy Kuminov) for an update, Martin Iturbide on resources for OS/2 collaboration and finally Alex Taylor updating on the Arca Noae Package Manager in 2020. This will wrap up the line-up for Warpstock EU in 2020.