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OS/2 - eComStation News - June, 2008Browse - June 2008: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 2008: January February March April May 2007: January February March April May June July August September October November December 2006: January February March April May June July August September October November December 2005: August September October November December SW: PM123 v1.32 Has Been Released Net: netlabs.org newsletter #62 [ACPI, FM/2, Lucide, NewView, Samba, SW: XWP 1.0.8 SW: CUPS 1.3.2 SW: A Preview of New Firefox 3.0 Features
2008-06-03 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net> PM123 v1.32 has been released. PM123 is an excellent open source PM based digital audio player for OS/2. It is capable of playing MP3's, WAV-files, Ogg Vorbis audio files, and audio CDs. PM123 supports audio streaming, plugins, skins, visualization and more! There is also excellent documentation in .INF format. Originally developed by Samuel Audet and Taneli Leppa, it is now being developed by Dmitry Steklenev. Credit is also given to Marcel Muller for several fixes, and new features. This latest version includes MANY new features, fixes, and improvements over version 1.31, and previous 1.32 betas. One GREAT improvement is (FINALLY) support for ID3v2 tags. The first & only OS/2 player to have it. See the history file for further details. PM123 version 1.32 available at: ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32.wpi or: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_32.wpi Source code for this version is also available: ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32-src.zip or: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_32-src.zip You can download a collection of skins here: ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/pm123/pm123-1_32-skins.zip Many skins are also available on Hobbes. You can find Plugins for PM123, and more information on PM123 here: http://glass.ptv.ru/software/english/pm123.html Regards, Sander Nyman Top
2008-06-04 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Netlabs.org News This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter News from netlabs.org: 26. May - 1. June * ACPI o Minor update o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline * FM/2 o Various updates, including solved and new tickets o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline * Lucide o A new ticket raised and two closed o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline * NewView o Crash with large helpfile reported. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline * Samba o Updated to newer level o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline * SWT o Lots of updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt/timeline 19. May - 25. May * ACPI o Two tickets raised and some updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline * GenMac o CardBus updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/genmac/timeline * kBuild o Interesting updates, including a test pass. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline * kLibC o Various updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline * Lucide o Ticket opened for dealing with subdocuments. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline * NewView o Two new tickets raised and solved. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline * Samba o Source updated to 3.0.29 o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline * SWT o Quite some updates o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt/timeline * Voyager NOM o Number of updates and fixes o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline * xATA o Another partial update. o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units: http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/ Thanks for your support! We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org Greetings, netlabs.org team Top
2008-06-07 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Ratcliffe XWorkplace 1.0.8 has been released. This fixes over 20 bugs from previous versions and adds a few small featuers. You can find it in the usual place on Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/xwp-1-0-8.zip moving to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wps/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-8.zip I no longer have access to Netlabs FTP to upload it to the correct place, however it is in the /incoming directory: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/xwp-1-0-8.exe and in the fullness of time it should move to: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-8.exe Please report *reproducible* bugs on the bugtracker at: http://xtracker.xworkplace.org Paul Top
2008-06-07 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel According to Paul Smedley's UNIX ports for OS/2 and eComStation website http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/ CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) has been updated to 1.3.2. Also includes Ghostscript 8.62 and Gutenprint 5.1.98.2 More information can be found at http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort The main CUPS site (non-OS/2) is http://www.cups.org/ "CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is the standard printing system in Mac OS® X and most Linux® distributions. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing." DOWNLOAD [Note: This is a 51MB file. And at that it only includes the language Gutenprint ppd files.] http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.2-gplgs-8.62-gutenprint-5.1.98.2-os2-20080605.zip REQUIREMENTS: Ghostscript and Gutenprint require the LIBC 0.6.3 runtime dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip CUPS is built using a custom libc064x.dll - a copy of which can be downloaded from http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip CHANGES since the last release: 1) Updated to GPL GHostscript 8.62 2) Updated to Gutenprint 5.1.98.2 (AKA 5.2.0-beta2) 3) Recompiled CUPS using libc064x in the hope that the spawn fixes help make cupsd more stable There is a eCups mailing list at Netlabs which can be viewed via Gmane at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel Please, please post feedback. A list of printers that Gutenprint supports can be found at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3 Further details on using CUPS on OS/2 or eComStation can be found at http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups or in the readme.os2 file in the download package. If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/ Top
2008-06-07 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net> A fellow named Mike Beltzner has created a pretty cool screencast of the upcoming (June) Firefox 3.0. It only shows a few of the new features, but they are pretty dazzling. The movie is only a few minutes long. Check it out. http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf Top
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