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Perspectives of eComStation in 2010


TITLE: Perspectives of eComStation in 2010

DATE: 2009-12-31 18:23:10

AUTHOR: eCo Software


Draft text
Date: 2009/12/31

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What's new in 2009?

  • eComStation 2.0 RC7, eComStation 2.0 GA

Applications:

  • OpenOffice.org 3.1 GA
  • PMView (2009/05) improved for SMP/Panorama VESA
  • always the latest Thunderbird, Firefox
  • DFSee 10.0

New technologies:

  • Flash-player

ACPI

  • Poor support of users during 2009
  • Intel ACPI source code 2008/12
  • ACPI is patching the kernel on-the-fly (suspend/resume)
  • support of Embedded controller is implemented

Hardware support:

  • CUPS (USB, debugging)

Work with community:

New libraries/toolkits:

  • GCC 4.x
  • eCo Software toolkit is updated
  • Qt4 toolkit

New shareware products:

  • DVD/CD Toys,
  • Virtual keyboard
  • (2008: SearchPlus + eCo Tunes + eCS FAQ brochure)

Networking:

  • Samba server/client (heavy debugging)

Improvement of base OS/2

  • New method: Patching kernel via ACPI (example: suspend/resume)
  • New method: patching dll / exe (example: WPS associations)
  • Better ACPI/SMP compatiblity (uconv.dll)
  • WPS associations // drink.milk.mp3

New sites (promo sites):

Test the program:

Several dosenz of applications may be ported to eComStation thanks to Qt4 toolkit

Comments:

How to prevent data loss? a) don't use old version of JFS driver. b) Don't boot from old eCS CD1 (if you take eCS 2.0 CD1, then disable its disk checker else it can kill your partitions), Advice how to use JFS filesystem

 


 

 

ArcaOS 5.1.1 whatsnew - PNG icons

PNG icons on Desktop

PNG icons on Desktop. (instead of ancient .ico designed in 1994)

Blonde Guy

FOC file selector

eCo Software have created File Open Container - modern dialog to open/select files.

Some remarks about FOC development

// надо на ENG!!

Warpstock Europe 2000

The conference ... clip about the conference:

 

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