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Unofficial builds of SeaMonkey version 2.7 and Firefox version 10.0 have been released (1/30 and 1/31). The biggest change is that most addons will remain compatible by default, which has been one of the annoyances with the rapid releases. There are some important notes in the readme file concerning Java, printing, profile compatibility, and crash reporting, so be sure to read through it. Highlights include DIVE support for accelerated drawing, full-featured native printing, Exceptq can be used to log crash details, plus most of the features available on other platforms, such as WebM video playback for sites like YouTube. WebGL is one feature that is missing, due to lack of hardware support. IPC support (which offers plugin crash protection, and will protect tabs from each other in the future) is not yet available, although progress is being made in that area. SeaMonkey is a continuation of the Mozilla Suite, while Firefox is a stand-alone browser based on Mozilla code. See my Warpzilla Tips page for more information.
Paul Smedley's project to investigate support for HP scanners using the HPLIP driver with SANE has begun, thanks to donations that allowed him to purchase an HP Photosmart 7510. He has set up a Twitter feed for anyone who wishes to follow the development status. From VOICE News.
eComStation.Ru is running a poll asking how hard it is for you to deal with programs packaged using RPM. From VOICE News.
netlabs.org has published biweekly newsletter #157 to update everyone on their latest developments. Recent updates include ACPI, Dynamic Windows Library, Java, Lucide, Odin32, QT4, UniAud, and more. You can sponsor netlabs.org, which helps fund development on various projects. From VOICE News.
Some miscellaneous notes: A new release of Odin (version 0.8.3) is due out soon, to fix some memory allocation problems that surfaced from the compiler switch. Perhaps a new release of the Flash 10 wrapper will also come soon; there has been some activity on that recently as well.
Les Bell has released his course material "Introduction to OS/2 Warp Programming" under the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. This course material contains the instructor guide, student guide, presentation slides and laboratory files. This material was originally used for 5 days of corporate training, and covers things such as memory management, threads, IPC, file systems, dialogs, GPI, SOM, and WPS. From VOICE News.
eComStation.Ru is collecting information about which Lenovo ThinkPads work with OS/2. From VOICE News.
A bit of a slow news week, which means I get to ramble about stuff... LibreOffice 3.4.5 and 3.5.0 RC1 came out for "tier 1" platforms, while OpenOffice is still "incubating" / mostly dead. OpenJDK 6 build b24 and 7u2 build b13 were released last November; hopefully we will see an update to the OS/2 port, although a browser plugin is probably more interesting. Qt 4.8 came out in December, and Qt 5 is on the way. Keeping these projects current is obviously no small task...
Adrian Gschwend posted some thoughts on the netlabs.org blog; the gist of it is that he is happy to maintain the status quo for hosting projects using Subversion and Trac, but recommends people interested in other systems look elsewhere, such as GitHub. He also hints that the netlabs.org website may go through another change due to other projects he is working on; the last big change was a disaster for the OS/2 projects hosted there, so hopefully the ones that managed to switch to Trac will not be affected again. From VOICE News.
eComStation.Ru is collecting information about computers that work with the new ACPI drivers. From VOICE News.
Odin32 version 0.8.2 has been released (12/30/2011); it is available in both ZIP and RPM formats. Odin32 can be used to run and/or build Win32 applications for OS/2, and is based on WINE and IBM's Open32. Recent work has been done as part of the efforts on supporting newer versions of Java; the biggest recent changes are switching compilers from VAC3 to GCC4, and improving support for Flash.
An unofficial build of Thunderbird version 9.0 has been released (12/28/2011). Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client, based on Mozilla code. See my Warpzilla Tips page for more information.
Greggory Shaw reports that the recent release of VirtualBox 4.1.8 (for other platforms) has an important USB bugfix for running OS/2 as a guest platform. He has a detailed guide for installing eComStation 2.1 in VirtualBox, with widescreen support.
EDM/2 (Electronic Developer Magazine/2) has been reorganized, with the articles getting categorized, the wiki skin getting updated, and some additional articles added to the site. As a wiki, it is possible for everyone to add or edit articles. Thanks to Martin Iturbide for the info.
Mensys has published a new eComStation Newsletter; mentioned are the Odin update, a pending Flash plugin update, Samba updates, a future OpenOffice.org 3.4 release, a pending overhaul of the ACPI drivers, and PM Backup Suite.
eComStation.RU is attempting the e-ball Awards again for 2011, after it flopped last year. They are still accepting nominations in several categories, ranging from best application, to best website, to best technical article. From VOICE News.
Question of the Week for OS/2 and eComStation has launched. Submitted questions will be displayed for one week, for the world to see and comment on. From VOICE News.
eComstation.ru has a eComStation 3.0 wishlist, with wishes like USB CDROM support active by default, PDF printer installed by default, and more. From VOICE News.
eComstation.ru has listings of interviews with various OS/2 developers over the last few years; the most recent addition is a Q&A by Eugene Gorbunoff, who does evangelism for eComStation.Ru. From VOICE News.
The OpenJDK for OS/2 project finally reached its original funding goal. There is now a new goal for additional funding, which will be used to fund a new release that includes browser plugin support; you can help by sponsoring units via Mensys. From OS2World.
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MySQL version 5.1.61 has been ported (2/4/2012) to OS/2. The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source database. The OS/2 port features named pipes, data replication, >2GB databases, and more. There is a mailing list for discussion. From VOICE News.
Paul Smedley has released (2/4/2012) an OS/2 build of PHP 5.3.10; modules supported include bz2, curl, dbase, exif, filepro, gd, gettext, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, openssl, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, and sqlite. It features a module for Apache 2.2, as well as CGI and CLI versions. For more info on PHP, see the PHP web site. From VOICE News.
An updated version of MPlayer has been released (2/3/2012), which has support for Win32 codecs, UniAud, DIVE, SNAP video overlays, and WarpOverlay. There is a browser plugin included, as well as MEncoder, a simple movie encoder. Most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, WebM, and more are supported.
K Movie Player version 0.7.0 has been released (2/3/2012). This is a video player based on FFPlay, without SDL dependencies and support for DIVE, SNAP video overlays, and WarpOverlay.
Paul Smedley has released (2/3/2012) an OS/2 port of Apache version 2.2.22. Apache is the premiere web server of the Internet. From VOICE News.
x264 version 0.119.x has been ported (2/3/2012) to OS/2. This is a H.264 (MPEG4 AVC) encoder library, and is used in software like MPlayer.
Qt Creator version 2.2.1 has been ported (9/17/2011) to OS/2; also available (2/3/2012) are the Artistic Style plugin version 0.6.0 and the QML Designer plugin version 2.2.1. This multiplatform Qt Integrated Development Environment features a C and JavaScript code editor, integrated UI designer, project and build management tools, support for version control, and more.
libkva version 1.2.0 has been released (2/2/2012). This is a library for displaying video streams, which supports SNAP video overlays, WarpOverlay!, and DIVE. It has been used in KMP, MPlayer, and VLC.
libvpx version 1.0.0 has been ported (2/2/2012) to OS/2. This is Google's WebM library, an open source, royalty free media file format designed for the web.
MP3Diags version 1.1.12.068 has been ported (2/2/2012) to OS/2. This Qt4 app is for managing information in MP3 files.
NYAOS versions 3.2.0_2 and 3.3.0_2 have been released (2/2/2012). This is an enhanced command line shell, which has some similarities to tcsh.
drman version 1.2.3 has been released (2/2/2012). This is a Drag and Drop enabled file reader for help files in the Linux man format.
Tanglet version 1.2.1 has been ported (2/1/2012) to OS/2. This is a word finding game based on Boggle, which uses the Qt4 libraries.
ClamAV GUI version 2.4.0 has been released (2/1/2012). This is a GUI front-end for configuring and running the ClamAV anti-virus program, which bundles an XPI for integration with Thunderbird. Also available is ClamAVM, a monitoring and scheduling interface.
A WarpIn package of ClamAV version 0.97.3 has been released; another port of ClamAV is available in RPM format. This is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, which features a command line scanner, a tool for automatic updating via the Internet, and integration with mail servers (attachment scanning).
jEdit version 4.5.0 has been released (1/31/2012). This is a programmer's text editor with many features, which requires Java 1.6.
BillardGL version 1.7 has been ported (1/31/2012) to OS/2. This is an OpenGL pool / billiards simulation. From VOICE News.
More Qt4 apps were ported (1/31/2012) to OS/2, including: Qlipper version 2.0.0 is a clipboard history applet; and QuiteRSS version 0.8.0 is a RSS/Atom feed reader.
OGFVIEWER / MESHTOOL has been updated (1/31/2012) to version 1.0.5. This is a cross platform toolkit for viewing and converting 3D models from Autodesk 3DStudio MAX 3DS and game engines like X-Ray (GSC S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series) and MSH (Orion engine v1 MSH - Stalin Subway, Red Veil). It works with the old IBM OpenGL 1.1. The latest version can be found on this Russian forum.
More Qt4 apps were ported (1/30/2012) to OS/2, including: Cscreenie version 1.1.9 is a screenshot utility; QIViewer version 0.5.0 is a small image viewer; diffimg version 1.2.1 is a simple image comparison tool; and syncwall version 1.2.1 is a wallpaper changing program.
photo version 0.5.02 has been released (1/30/2012). This is a fast and simple, yet powerful and highly configurable image viewer, which uses the Qt4 libraries.
More Qt4 apps were ported (1/29/2012) to OS/2, including: Basqet version 0.2.0 is for taking notes; HolyServices version 1.0.0.21 offers calendar-like planning of holy services for small parishes, with connections to iCal supporting time-organizers; BiblioteQ version 6.5.3 is a library management suite; MccHTMLMapper version 0.3 is for creating image maps; fleetingpm version 2.7 is a tool for generating and managing passwords; and MultifileDetector version 1.8.1 is a duplicate file finder.
ClipView version 3.4 has been released (1/3/2012). This is a set of tools to provide and work with multiple clipboards, including ClipPrint, PipeClip, ClipPipe, and more. There is even cross-platform client/server clipboard support. Thanks to Dave Saville for the news.
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