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OS/2 is a greatly different operating system for PC (ArcaOS, eComStation, IBM OS/2 Warp)
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Arca Noae has posted a new item, 'Arca Noae progress report: ArcaOS on UEFI-only hardware'
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is gradually replacing the traditional system BIOS. The vast majority of PCs on the market are now based on UEFI technology, and a number of these include what is called a Compatibility Support Module (CSM). This CSM "layer" replaces the traditional BIOS and provides backward-compatibility support for booting operating systems [...]
You may view the latest post here:
https://www.arcanoae.com/arca-noae-progress-report-arcaos-on-uefi-only-hardware/
We at Arca Noae would like to thank our development partners, bww bitwise works, GmbH and http://Netlabs.org for their continued contributions to the OS/2 platform. Monetary contributions to offset their operating costs may be made either through Arca Noae at https://www.arcanoae.com or bww bitwise works, GmbH at http://www.bitwiseworks.com.
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One of the arguments why you should upgrade to ArcaOS,
it contains firefox 38. and you can update it to firefox 45.
it's impossible start firefox 38 and 45 in previous versions of eCS, OS/2 Warp.
(many people made efforts but failed because it's impossible select needed libraries).
The users ask about Firefox 38:
Firefox 38: after ArcaOS installation you can use youtube
and play videos. In several minutes / hours it stops playing.
How to use youtube with Firefox 38?
You can't print from Firefox. So you should generate pdf files
(and print PDF from PDF viewer).
Question: how to improve quality of the PDF files? increase dpi?
by default you get 150 dpi and text documents have poor quality.
Firefox 38 crashes often.
How to increase stability?
How to enter into AVITO profile from OS/2?
reCAPTCHA doesn't work with Firefox 38 so you can't login.
Main secret - reCAPTCHA is not used for some Android devices
change user agent to
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Focus/1.0 Chrome/59.0.3029.83 Mobile Safari/537.36
remove cookies related to AVITO
select Add item. so you can see simplified Login dialog.
without reCAPTCHA
now you are logged to the site
change user agent to
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Share your experience how to use other services and bank sites from OS/2.
eCo Software released LIP package Basic,
it translates objects on desktop to other languages.
Download: http://os2.guru/lip
Current version contains resources for: Czech / German / Spanish / Finnish / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Norwegian / Portuguese / Russian / Swedish.
Even if you run this basic switcher, many programs start talking your language because
LIP package switches LANG variable.
(applications which are using ECOLANGE library and other)
Development of LIP packages:
New languages: you can translate desktop object names to your language,
If you have translated a system utility or an application,
we can distribute it with LIP package among other users talking your language.
The members of eCo Software are translating OS/2 system components and applications
since 90-th. We are collaborating with european OS/2 translators.
eCo Software released eSchemes WPS extender.
It was fully re-written and debugged.
eSchemes allows you apply schemes and change colors of windows, buttons and other graphical UI elements.
The package includes 44 schemes (OS/2 Warp 3 appearence, WinXP, etc).
Warpstock Europe 2019 will occur in May 2019.
You have time to write usefull utility / application for this event.
We will distribute information about your program at this event.
Several weeks ago we have updated Device Manager for OS/2.
Smart utility which shows information about hardware devices.
PIC:
For developers:
if you have useful code aimed to detect devices
(Serial port, cameras, RAID controllers..)
then you can share this code with us (we will mention your participation on the site)
For users:
Send us short messages via the utility to improve output
The models of devices are not decoded sometimes.
name of manufacturer can be simplified.
If you look at Windows experience.
Embedded Device manager is the main tool to setup re-installed Windows system. The utility informs what devices don't have drivers or work with troubles. Step by step, every user can resolve the troubles by himself.
Picture of the day: