How to buy eComStation 2.0?

2007-11-14 20:39:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

November, 2007 -- new generation of eComStation operating system (IBM OS/2 Warp platform) is under construction and localization. The list of changes and improvements in eComStation 2.0 RC3

• If you have a license of eComStation 1.2.5 and eComStation Software Subscription then use new components, help to developers of multimedia and commercial programs.
• If you have eComStation 1.2 then upgrade to eComStation 1.2.5, update the Software Subscription.
• If your company is using IBM OS/2 Warp then you are late for five years, please upgrade to eComStation.

eCo Software DevCon is updated

2007-11-07 17:45:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software is the largest developer of software on eComStation market today. The developers of eCo Software are obligated to share their experience and knowledge with other developers. Visit DevCon site and find reference books, useful links and facts

You can share your links and libraries, make questions to professional developers.

Live stream of presentations

2007-11-02 11:20:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You can read the notes from WSE2007 conference in realtime

Photos and notes on russian language: ecomstation.ru

eComStation.RU - 7 sites in 1

2007-10-27 20:18:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.RU contains 7 standalone sites (look at the patterned strip at the top of the site):

• eComStation.Ru -- the life of community
• forum.ecomstation.ru -- forums for detailed discussion
• Support service -- support service for russian users
• ESWay -- The forecast of eComStation development
• Solutions -- How to make money on eComStation?
• eCo Software -- eCo Software is the largest developer of software on the market
• eCo Design -- Order icons, banners

eComStation PC homepage

2007-10-27 16:32:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation PC site is aimed to increase the sellings of eComStation and increase the population of eComStation world.

Disussion of eComStation PC in the Internet:

• RUS
• RUS
• ENG

eComStation Developer Connection

2007-10-19 19:55:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Visit Warpstock Europe 2007 to connect to Developer Connection

DEV05

The development of new drivers and applications for eComStation is labour-intensive. We are going to publish guidelines how to start the development of new program, how to improve current software.

This includes an overview of new libraries and control elements and the perspectives untill 2009.

Do you have questions? Which libraries do you need? How to unite all developers?

Success stories at Warpstock?

2007-10-18 01:39:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

What is the purpose of the conferences? To exchange the knowledge, to show new software.

Do you use eCS in business? It's your chance to present new solution for eComStation market at WSE2007 or Warpstock 2007. Don't forget send the story to the Solutions homepage after the conference!

New: 1996 -- OS/2 Warp was used as main operating system at Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996

VOICE Newsletter 10/2007 available

2007-10-16 23:37:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The October edition of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.

In the latest issue you find:

• And now for Something Completely Different -- Christian Hennecke has ideas how to reanimate os2voice.org
• Head to Head -Thinkpad T30 running eComStation 1.2 versus Macbook Pro running MacOSX Tiger 10.4 -- Cheng-Yang Tan is promoting the competitor
• Exploring Feature Install -Part 1: Object-Based Installation -- Alex Taylor -- how to install software using ancient IBM Feature Install
• Virtual memory technique -- Sjoerd Visser prepared useful information for developers of eComStation applications and drivers
• Creating Karaoke disks with OS/2 and eComStation -- Bart Bremmers prefers active relaxation
• And of course letters, addenda, and tips! -- 0 советов

ACPI 3.03, suspend/resume, QuadCore

2007-10-14 22:23:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Now testing:

• suspend/resume on multi-core notebooks and barebones (Read APM.doc)
• support of QuadCore desktops (follow standard recommendations: ACPI-SMP.doc), Please inform us, does it work well or not.

How to achieve success in testing?

• update danis506.add to 1.8.1 (How to update Danis -- Software updates)
• disable all device drivers before testing suspend/resume (USB, audio, network)
• You can see the list of Sleep states supported by your computer when starting ACPI daemon (S1 - computer is stopped; S2 - computer is stopped, part of devices are powered off; S3 - all devices are powered off, except memory; S4 - all devices are powered off; S5 - power off)
• Post the bug-report (ticket) to the tracker (login: guest, pass: netlabs), View tickets

How to post good ticket?

• From: your name or nickname
• Title: model of notebook/motherboard/SMP, problem in 3-5 words
• if you have troubles then grab log: copy acpica$ acpi.log
• if you see trap then read ACPI-Tester.doc

How to help to other users? Share the results of your tests.

Post report about your computer/motherboard to Hardware database

Install ACPIFU WPI (Fast Upgrade) if 3.x is working fine on your computer.

80% of applications are not published

2007-10-14 16:27:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We see that major part of applications and drivers for eComStation and OS/2 are not finished and never were published.

We offer two methods to reanimate such programs: a) separate a module from your program and share it with other developers, b) or replace part of code with module created by other developer.

eComStation FAQs

2007-10-14 04:12:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software support service offers you useful FAQs. You can use this information to setup eComStation, to write books related to eComStation or frighten your girlfriend/wife/mother with technical details.

USB FAQs

• Common USB FAQ (10)
• USB Dock FAQ (7)

Video drivers FAQs

• Panorama common FAQ (11)
• Panorama VESA FAQ (22)
• Panorama R200 FAQ (6)
• Unofficial Scitech SNAP FAQ (3)

ACPI FAQs

• ACPI FAQ (72) -- ACPI common questions
• APM FAQ (7) -- Power management

Desktop FAQs wps, colors

• Imagination FAQ (4)
• Piano Launchpad FAQ (13)
• I/O Procedures FAQ (2)

• eSchemes, common questions (21)
• How to create schemes? (8)

JFS FAQ

eComStation FAQ (russian language) (270)

Week of Network Access Storage devices

2007-10-11 14:09:01 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The forty first week of 2007 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible Network Access Storage devices (NAS). Our database contains 3 records only... Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the web-form.

Uniaud 1.2 .0beta1, Experimental release

2007-10-10 22:55:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

"the Universal Audio Driver for eCS and OS/2."

UNIAUD32 1.2.0beta1 aka "ReSync 0.9.5"

Mark Dodel: This is an experimental test release of a Resync of ALSA 0.9.5 in UniAud. It is only the uniaud32.sys driver. You must already have a recent UniAud release installed to use this. Though I found this release works fine on my Thinkpad T42p, please heed the warning below.

"WARNING: These 1.2.0 beta releases should be treated with the caution due to any experimental/unstable software. They should not be used on a production system without proper system backups. Always keep a bootable CD handy for reverting to a more stable release of Uniaud32.sys in case this one should trap."

Web site, Download

A news group for users is here, A mail list for users can be subscribed to with an email to uniaud-user-subscribe@netlabs.org

Problem reports can be made (login required) and existing ones viewed here

eCo Labs - more and more tasks

2007-10-07 03:15:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying share the income with developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

To improve quality of eCo Software products, to accumulate templates for new software we published additional tasks.

eCo Labs - 30 days till D-Day

2007-09-29 10:59:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying share the income with developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

We added 10 new tasks for russian developers, updated rules to filter professional developers.

Remember everything

2007-09-21 14:56:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

www.ecomstation.ru users are writing the brief history of eComStation

• there is reference to IBM OS/2 Warp
• user should remember which new features were introduced in every new version
• remember the names of developers and managers