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29.09.2000 |
Warpstock Europe 2000: Non-commerial exhibitors (from Christian Hennecke) |
Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V. i.G. provides a free platform for non-commercial exhibitors to present their offers at Warpstock Europe 2000. The following developers of free- and shareware, user groups and providers of Internet services have agreed to participate:
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Warpstock Europe 2000: New Warpzilla-session (from Christian Hennecke) |
The number of sessions at Warpstock Europe has increased again. Mike Kaply from IBM will give an overview of the Warpzilla project:
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24.09.2000 |
Warpstock Europe 2000: Sessions (2) (from Christian Hennecke) |
As last year Warpstock Europe 2000 again offers a large variety of sessions and workshops related to all kinds of topics:
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Warpstock Europe 2000: HOBLink X11 special offer (from Christian Hennecke) |
First of all, please excuse our posting here, but our announcements don't get through to comp.os.os2.announce.
Due to the soon coming Warpstock Europe 2000 event, where HOB will demo both its native OS/2 connectivity products as well as Java connectivity products for OS/2, its well-known HOBLink X11 server package will be offered for a sensational price for students and private use. HOBLink X11 V. 3.5 for OS/2, which normally costs DM 574,00 (293,48 EUR) (incl. VAT), will now be offered for students and private use for only DM 92.80 (47,45 EUR) (incl. VAT). This offer is valid for an indefinite period, but at least up to December 31, 2000. Orders shall be directed only to HOB. The HOBLink X11 package comes with an easy-to-use installation program and provides the view to X applications seamlessly within the OS/2 desktop with excellent performance. See http://www.hob.de/www_us/news/event0007.htm for more details about OS/2 products of HOB. More information on Warpstock Europe 2000 and the exhibitors can be obtained from the Warpstock Europe 2000 homepage. -> URL: http://www.warpstock.de -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
22.09.2000 |
Final voting of OS2 World.Com Award (from Kim Haverblad) |
The final voting has now started for the OS2 World.Com Award! The winners in each category will be announced Saturday the 14th of October at Warpstock Europe 2000. The OS2 World.Com award is a cooperation event between OS2 World.Com, Warpstock Europe and companies who are sponsoring this event. Current sponsors are: IBM Svenska AB, SciTech Software, Inc., Keller Group, SnowStorm Software,Stardock Corporation, Inc., The GhostBoat BBS, Cristie Data Products and PillarSoft. -> URL: http://www.os2world.com/award.shtml -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
25.09.2000 |
Stardock to drop free personal tech support for OS/2 software (UPDATE) (from WarpCast) |
According to their Internet site Stardock, the manufacturer of world famous OS/2 tools like Object Desktop and Process Commander, will stop OS/2 support from january 31st 2001 on. Strange enough there will be a sort of support, for $$$ per minute it seems. From their web site:Note: Free OS/2 software Personal Technical support will end on January 31, 2001. Support for SDS OS/2 software will be $65 per incident for the first 15 minutes and $35 for each additional 15 minutes. Contact your IBM or Stardock representative to subscribe to the Stardock OS/2 support network.They also state that Process Commander doesn't work anymore from Warp 4 FixPak 12 and on. An answer from Stardock Systems (Kris Kwilas): (...) The horizontal marketplace for OS/2 is withering on the vine. While eCS holds great promise for the power users who have remained with OS/2, the customer base has decreased manyfold over the last 3 years.And that is not enough if you also have received the Stardock Newsletter: Coming later this month in Stardock Magazine: September 2000 part 2Hopefully this "History" won't be the 'letter of the year' from Brad Wardell because he think that there won't be any note in the 'letter of the year 2001'... -> URL: http://www.stardock.com/support/os2/ -> comments: 18 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
21.09.2000 |
JFS Becomes Part of All eComStation Products (from Bob St.John) |
Serenity Systems announced today that it has reached a new agreement with IBM regarding software rights associated with eComStation (eCS).
Specifically, the new agreement calls for the Journaling File System (JFS), once available only in the eCS Professional product, or as a fee based optional feature, will now become part of the eCS base product with no change in product pricing. "We were able to convince IBM to let us include JFS with no increase in price and we are passing the new functions to the user, along with significant cost savings." said Bob St.John, Director of Business Development for Serenity Systems. Executive Director Kim Cheung added, "Today, the size of disks used in all PCs warrants a JFS implementation. But there's more. JFS has stronger caching capabilities than HPFS. eCS has to support the Java environment, including IBM's Java 1.3 implementation which is also part of the eCS GA product, and the direction to servlets launched by products like Websphere. "To have a responsive system" continued Cheung "directed at e-commerce and Internet style computing, JFS is pivotal. IBM agreed that JFS makes the products more consistent with the direction of the industry." St.John continued, "We're delighted with the way IBM has been supporting us. eCS continues to increase its value to the industry and we are able to hold the line on costs." For those customers who have ordered the eCS Professional, or the JFS feature, an adjustment will be made. JFS is planned to ship in th Preview product, which is expected to begin distribution the week of September 25. While JFS will make it into the Preview version of the product, the GA version will also include Java 1.3, and refreshes of TCP/IP 4.3.1 and Netscape 4.61. These features may be downloadable to registered users of the Upgrade Protection Program. Regards, Bob Bob St.John Dir, New Business Development Serenity Systems International a Managed Systems company 214 222-3414, ext 101 (outside USA) 888 299-6483, ext 101 (USA only) -> URL: http://www.Serenity-Systems.com -> comments: 2 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
19.09.2000 |
SysInfo/2 author call for users (from Alexey Smirnov) |
I am very glad to see that my program is so popular in OS/2 community - in fact, more that 1500 copies of SysInfo/2 ver 0.57 were downloaded only from Hobbes. So I ask you to refresh your SysInfo/2 - now you can download a new, improved version of SysInfo/2 - ver. 0.60. You can get it from Hobbes.
I am interested in testing my program on new CPUs (Intel P-III,P-4, Amd Athlon & Duron) and on various video chips: #9, Trident, AvanceLogic, Intel81X and so on. Please, send me some info in you are using these video chips with *NATIVE* drivers (not SDD or GRADD) and SysInfo/2 shows something wrong. Also, if SysInfo/2 shows wrong info in some other pages (1st page - "System", Last - "DeviceTree", MMOS2 page and so on) - please, send me a problem description and a screenshot, if it is possible. My contacts are asmirnov@mid.ru or elf@krovatka.ru. SysInfo/2 ver. 0.57 was downloaded more then 2000 times - why did you not send me bug reports? Maybe all is working fine... ;-)) Now I am working on Network Information - IBM MPTN detection algorithm will be rewritten. Please, try to look for new information on project home page. A new build of SysInfo/2 will be published there until the end of September. -> URL: http://os2.ru/projects/sysinfo/indexeng.shtml -> Hobbes-Search: sysinfo060.zip -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
18.09.2000 |
Warpstock Europe 2000: Sessions (1) (from Christian Hennecke) |
As last year Warpstock Europe 2000 again offers a large variety of sessions and workshops related to all kinds of topics:
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13.09.2000 |
Opera port NOT cancelled (from Adrian Gschwend) |
There was a posting at Warpcast that the OS/2 port of Opera is cancelled, this is definitely not true. As a member of the OS/2 port list I know what I am talking about. It looks like there is a communication problem in Opera itself, they have problems in updating the webpage because of hardware problems but they promised me to do that as soon as possible. Currently the Opera for OS/2 port gets 18 out of 20 points so no reason to worry at all. I know that we have to release an alpha version to show the community that there *is* a port, but this will happen as soon as we think it's worth to release one. I do have a version on my system. The newsgroup for the port will be opera.os2 at news.opera.no If you are interested in this port I recommend you to join this server, later if you are an alpha tester (everyone can get the alpha as soon as it is released) you should post bugs to this newsgroup as well. I'm sorry about the missinformation. -> comments: 2 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
11.09.2000 |
OS/2 on an Apple PPC (from Chris Backas) |
Chris Backas has written a mail to the news service Warpcast that he has running an OS/2 Warp on an Apple iBook and maybe wants to write a FAQ. After that mail he got over a dozen eMails and clearified that not the OS/2 for PPC is running on his iBook. He uses the OS/2 for x86-architecture under Connectix's VirtualPC. After this good feedback he will write a FAQ soon. -> comments: 5 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
02.09.2000 |
Matrox declares OS/2 as older Operation System (from Klaus Staedtler) |
Matrox has moved the OS/2 drivers to the older operation systems (together with windows 3.x, and NT 3.X): http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/prev_latest.htm
The placeholder for OS/2 is now Linux on the latest driver page: http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/home.htm But there are some good news about the linux drivers from the Matrox user group: Not Just For LinuxBTW. XFree 86 4.X is available as Alpha at this side: ftp://borneo.gmd.de/pub/misc/XFree86OS2/alpha/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
01.09.2000 |
PMMail 2000 Poll (from Joerg Skottke) |
Two moths ago Blueprint Software Works, Inc. started development of PMMail 2000. Today all registered customers were asked to participate in a poll about new features and ongoing support for OS/2. They are asking OS/2-users to subscribe to the product in order to ensure further development. Last time it was Matrica with their HBCI-capable Homebanking software who tried to force their OS/2 customers to subscribe and take all the financial risk. This resulted in a certain effort to make the developers of Moneydance include HBCI in their product. The only difference is that you can chose between
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