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OS/2 - eComStation News - April, 2007

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Net: GenMAC-sponsoring - now starting!
Net: Wellington (New Zealand) OS/2 User Group Meeting
Net: The Inquirer: OS/2 is 20 years old today: dead but still walking
Net: The Inquirer: OS/2 is 20 years old today: dead but still walking
Net: OS2World.com Bounty System
SW: Preliminary build of Gnash
HW: Easter Specials: Dual Head PCIe 16x at no extra $$ on eCS preload
SW: "GetTYPO3v4forOS2" v2.09 released

Net: GenMAC-sponsoring - now starting!

2007-04-02
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Thorolf Godawa

Hi all,

After I got obligatory commitments about more than 1000 EUR for the
donation of a ThinkPad T60 to the GenMAC-developer Willibald, I'm very
optimistic to get the rest of the needed amount quite soon too!

So I begin to collect the money from everybody who wrote me an e-mail now,
I will inform you about the actual status on http://www.os2.org !

For people within the EU the easiest way to donate is a bank transfer, for
detailed informations I send an e-mail, for all others or for people who
don't like paying with banktransfer, there is now the possibility to pay
via Mensys.nl!

Please contact me via genmac AT godawa DOT de for more details if you did
not received an e-mail from me in case like to use this payment method.

If you would like to participate too please write me an e-mail with the
amount you wish to donate to genmac AT godawa DOT de, I'll send you more
informations directly!

Thanks a lot for your support,
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Net: Wellington (New Zealand) OS/2 User Group Meeting

2007-04-02
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: andrew.elzenaarDESPAM@DESPAMalcatel-lucent.co.nz

The Wellington OS/2 User group meets on the first Wednesday of every month.

Meeting this month (April) at 40 Taranaki St starting at 7:30 pm.

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Net: The Inquirer: OS/2 is 20 years old today: dead but still walking

2007-04-03
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++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38666

"OS/2 is 20 years old today: dead but still walking

Opinion How IBM screwed itself in favour of the Redmond Juggernaut

By Fernando Cassia: Monday 02 April 2007, 18:24
IF OUR CALENDARS serve us right, April 2007 means twenty years have passed
since the initial "Microsoft-IBM OS/2 1.0" announcement. But the story of
OS/2 is not always told right.

...."

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Net: The Inquirer: OS/2 is 20 years old today: dead but still walking

Net: OS2World.com Bounty System

2007-04-03
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Martin Iturbide

We will like to remind to the OS/2 and eComStation community the current
Bounties we are running at OS2World.com.

We will also like to encourage developers to see the "Open Bounties" that
are at OS2World.com and also encourage the community to "chip in" with the
prize for this ports.

- OS/2 native port of Java 6 ($305)

- GemPlus PC400 driver support ($215)

- TrueCrypt port ($200)

- OpenWengo port ($185)

- Common File Open/Save Dialog ($180)

- Eclipse.org Standard Windowing Toolkit (SWT) OS/2 Port ($125)

- PCMCIA USB 2.0 cards drivers ($100)

- Maul XHTML import handler ($100)

- Port of FreeMat ($100)

- Interface InnoTek's font-engine ($100)

- Universal Webcam drivers ($100)

- USB extended keyboard driver ($85)

- Mpeg2Schnitt port ($84)

- Icon routines in OS/2 ($60)

- Skype for OS/2 ($55)

- OS2 & eCS kernel ($50)

- General Win32 Plugin for Mozilla/Firefox ($50)

- OS/2 device drivers for Minolta filmscanners ($50)

- GNASH open source Flash 7 ($45)

- Porting AbiWord ($25)

Other members of the community can help by being a sponsor. The current
bounties that are missing a sponsors are:

- A Native OS/2 Port of Lotus Notes (Hannover)

- Blocks IDE ($0)

- Porting QEMU ($0)

- OS/2 for Linux ($0)

- OS/2 native port of Apache Harmony ($0)

- Porting 7-zip ($0)

- Freetype/2 based on Freetype 2 ($0)

- OpenGroupWare web based team/group software ($0)

- BlueTooth Driver Development ($0)

- Universal PrinTrio - Multifunctional drivers ($0)

- Synchronising Software for PDAS ($0)

- USB Wireless Security Lock driver ($0)

- Universal CardBus drivers ($0)

To sponsor a bounty or suggest a new one please visit:

http://www.os2world.com/bounties/

Thanks to all the Bounty Sponsors

Url: http://www.os2world.com/bounties/

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SW: Preliminary build of Gnash

2007-04-03
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Paul Smedley

Hi All,

I just got Gnash compiling and had to announce it :)

http://download.smedley.info/gnash-cvs20070403-os2.zip

Details on Gnash, http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Previously, it was only possible to play
flash movies with proprietary software. While there are some other free
flash players, none support anything beyond SWF v4. Gnash is based on
GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.

No firefox plugin yet, and hardly any testing other than several of the
samples included in the Gnash CVS repository work, and Joachim reports that
the eComStation tour works :)

Cheers,

Paul.

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HW: Easter Specials: Dual Head PCIe 16x at no extra $$ on eCS preload

2007-04-04
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Paul Curtis

Curtis Systems Software P.C.,

http://www.curtisSystemsSoftware.com

Apr 4, 2007, EASTER SPECIAL and DOUBLE BONUS!!

Add nearly twice the power, upgrade to a dual-core CPU starting at just $69
more, AND get a dual head accelerated PCIe 16x video card that flys with
CSS preloaded Machines at no extra cost, ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

Dual head GIVES you the ability to run your desktop over 2 monitors, i.e.
Double 1280 x 1024 resolutions have tested well on CSS WS with 17 inch LCD
monitors, giving you a very large 2560 x 1024 desktop.

Preloading your favorite operating system, eComStation 1.2R, on quality
hardware, with other key software installed, tested and carefully configured.

Also preloading Beta 4 of eCS 2.0 on a separate partition.

preloadsAnnounce (AT) curtisSystemsSoftware (dot) com

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SW: "GetTYPO3v4forOS2" v2.09 released

2007-04-06
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Roland Schmalenberg

Hi folks,

I got asked to announce new versions of my scripts for getting TYPO3 to run
on base of OS/2 or eComStation, known as "TYPO3 goes eComStation". Yes,
I'll do that from now on ...

What is TYPO3?
--------------
For those people not knowing TYPO3 yet it should be mentioned that TYPO3 is
a free Open Source Web Content Management System, released under GPL. More
informations can be found at http://typo3.com or for developers at
http://typo3.org

Last changes
------------
The TYPO3-team launched TYPO3 version 4.1.1 and 4.0.6 with some minor fixes
around rich text editing (rtehtmlarea) under Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Wednesday.
I've got the time to install the changes to my scripts yesterday and have
finished the tests.

Where to get, what to need?
---------------------------
You are able to download the script package from the home of "TYPO3 goes
eComStation", http://os4you.org/typo3goesecomstation.html
All you need to run is a working OAMP (OS/2 + Apache + MySQL + PHP), my
package and time to study ;-)

Yours sincerly
Roland Schmalenberg
Team TYPO3 goes eComStation (TT3geCS)

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