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r54 r56 9 9 <blockquote> 10 10 11 <attribution>Achim calling IBM's software12 support</attribution>11 <attribution>Achim calling IBM's Software Support in 12 2000</attribution> 13 13 14 <para>OS/2 , this is an IBM product right?</para>14 <para>OS/2 - this is an IBM product, correct?</para> 15 15 16 16 </blockquote> -
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r54 r56 15 15 administrate their fileservers, if they were even more skilled they 16 16 start telling stories about how they did interact with the desktop 17 and you can still see a glimpse (FIXME)in their eyes if they talk17 and you can still see a twinkle in their eyes if they talk 18 18 about it. The authors of this book are still using OS/2 or its 19 19 official successor eComStation every day. We work on it, we write … … 40 40 <title>Facts and Religion</title> 41 41 42 <para>In FIXMEwe explain the history of the Voyager project,42 <para>In <xref linkend="dov.overview.tvp.h" /> we explain the history of the Voyager project, 43 43 including some details about what IBM planned to do with OS/2 years 44 44 ago. As we all know, it came different, OS/2 never got the success … … 142 142 2006.</para> 143 143 144 <para>When eComStation 1.0 got released in FIXMEIBM was still144 <para>When eComStation 1.0 got released in 2001 IBM was still 145 145 selling OS/2 but many OS/2 users switched to eComStation. The 146 146 reason was pretty simple: eCS included a lot of things in the -
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r54 r56 1 1 <?xml version='1.0'?> 2 2 <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3b2/docbookx.dtd"> 3 <chapter >3 <chapter id="dov.overview"> 4 4 5 5 <title>A Short Overview of Voyager</title> … … 9 9 the corresponding chapters.</para> 10 10 11 <section >11 <section id="dov.overview.tvp"> 12 12 13 13 <title>The Voyager Project</title> … … 18 18 got there.</para> 19 19 20 <section >20 <section id="dov.overview.tvp.h"> 21 21 22 22 <title>History</title> … … 27 27 implement an OS/2 personality on top of a Mach 3 Kernel and they 28 28 called the project <emphasis>OS/2 Warp (PowerPC 29 Edition)</emphasis>. For various reasons the project got 30 canceledlater but before that happened IBM released the book29 Edition)</emphasis>. For various reasons the project got canceled 30 later but before that happened IBM released the book 31 31 <citetitle>OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition) A First Look</citetitle> 32 32 <citation>SG24-4630</citation>, which documented the basic design … … 47 47 <para>A more detailed history of OS/2 is available in the 48 48 Internet. Michal Necasek did a very detailed overview about the 49 different releases. It also gives some details about what IBM50 did wrong. <ulink url="http://FIXME"/></para>49 different releases. URL: 50 <ulink url="http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/"/></para> 51 51 52 52 </tip> … … 168 168 Warp 3</trademark>.</para> 169 169 170 <para>Voyager is also the name of a NASA FIXME.</para> 170 <para>Voyager is also a reference to the NASA <emphasis>Voyager 171 1</emphasis> spacecraft ( 172 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1"/>), an 173 815-kilogram unmanned probe of the outer solar system and beyond, 174 launched September 5, 1977, and is currently operational, making 175 it NASA's longest-lasting mission. It visited Jupiter and 176 Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the 177 moons of these planets.</para> 171 178 172 179 <para>Many programmers contributing to the project decided to 173 pick up related names as well, like Neptune (First moon FIXME) 174 and Triton (FIXME).</para> 180 pick up related names as well, like Neptune, the eight and 181 outermost planet of our solar system which got visited by the 182 Voyager 2 project and Triton, the biggest moon of Neptune.</para> 175 183 176 184 <para>Most probably the name Voyager will not be used for the … … 428 436 for applications that are not using any direct rendering and 429 437 beside this, most users never use that feature anyway. But the 430 current trend on Unix-like systems finally goes into the direction 431 of using OpenGL accelerated backends and doing the whole 432 rendering in it. This is exactly where Neptune comes in.</para> 438 current trend on Unix-like systems finally goes into the 439 direction of using OpenGL accelerated backends and doing the 440 whole rendering in it. This is exactly where Neptune comes 441 in.</para> 433 442 434 443 <para>Neptune will provide a window manager for both Xlib and … … 469 478 <para>It is absolutely clear that whatever option might come up, 470 479 we will <emphasis>not</emphasis> write device drivers on our own 471 again. This was and is one of the major problems we had and no one472 o f the core developers of Voyager wants to spend time on that480 again. This was and is one of the major problems we had and no 481 one of the core developers of Voyager wants to spend time on that 473 482 anymore.</para> 474 483 … … 558 567 559 568 <para>The core of Voyager is dual-licensed under the CDDL and 560 the LGPL. 569 the LGPL.</para> 561 570 562 571 </listitem> … … 577 586 The CDDL gives more freedom to us because we as developers can also 578 587 sell our product like this, but if someone changes source code of 579 us they would have to at least release the changes in our classes.580 </para>588 us they would have to at least release the changes in our 589 classes.</para> 581 590 582 591 <para>The Apache License for sample applications and code templates
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