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Due to size limits we continue on a new page as of January 2008. Go here for the later ones.

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News from netlabs.org

Newsletter #51

Happy New Year everybody!!! from the netlabs team

24. December - 30. December

17. December - 23. December

Newsletter #50

10. December - 16. December

3. December - 9. December

Newsletter #49

26. November - 2. December

19. November - 25. November

Newsletter #48

12. November - 18. November

5. November - 11. November

Newsletter #47

30. October - 4. November

23. October - 29. October

Newsletter #46

15. October - 22. October

9. October - 14. October

Newsletter #45

1. October - 8. October

24. September - 30. September

Newsletter #44

17. September - 23. September

10. September - 16. September

Newsletter #43

27. August - 2. September

2. September - 9. September

Newsletter #42

13. August - 19. August

20. August - 26. August

Newsletter #41

6. August - 12. August

30. July - 5. August

Newsletter #40

23. July - 29. July

16. July - 22. July

Newsletter #39

9. July - 15. July

2. July - 8. July

Newsletter #38

25. June - 1. July

18. June - 24. June

Developers Workshop 2007

Newsletter #37

11. June - 17. June

4. June - 10. June

  • netlabs.org webmaster
    • Adrian Gschwend is back from his Southeast-Asia trip and will try to catch up with work @ netlabs.org as soon as possible :-)
  • DWS 2007
    • List of presentations for Developers Workshop 2007
      • The following presentations are already scheduled for this years Developers Workshop, stay tuned for updates!
      • Introduction to NOM (Chris Wohlgemuth)
      • Utilizing Multi-Core Processors (Keith Merrington)
      • The Voyager Project: Where are we now? (Adrian Gschwend)
      • A freely programmable USB-Interface for eCS - Focussing on the DLP-USB245M (Uwe Hinz)
      • How to create popular software products for eComStation (Eugene Gorbunoff)
      • eComStation User Interface (Eugene Gorbunoff)
      • Managing Program Resources (Christian Langanke)
      • VirtualBox (Adrian Gschwend)
  • FM/2
  • kBuild
  • kLibC
  • NewView
  • UniAud

Developers Workshop 2007

Newsletter #36

28. May - 3. June

21. May - 27. May

Developers Workshop 2007

Newsletter #35

14. May - 20. May

7. May - 13. May

Developers Workshop 2007

Newsletter #34

30. April - 6. May

23. April - 29. April

Newsletter #33

16. April - 22. April

9. April - 15. April

Newsletter #32

2. April - 8. April

26. March - 1. April

Newsletter #31

19. March - 25. March

12. March - 18. March

Newsletter #30

5. March - 11. March

26. February - 4. March

Newsletter #29

19. February - 25. February

12. February - 18. February

Newsletter #28

5. February - 11. February

29. January - 4. February

Newsletter #27

22. January - 28 January

  • netlabs server
    • The server will be moved tonight (January 29th)!
    • There will be new webpages online but they will be very basic for the moment! Adrian will work on that afterwards :-)
    • TRAC & Subversion should move tomorrow Tuesday, reaction will be much faster on the new server.
    • IRC will move to its own network for reasons that will be explained later. Right now irc.netlabs.org points to irc.aroa.ch
  • The Config.sys Documentation Project
  • UniAud
    • Fix TRAP in Intel chips
    • Latest HDA patches from ALSA
    • Added missed files to SVN
    • Applied latest modifications for ALSA
    • Reworked sharing between DART and UNIAUD API
    • R&D on sharing on single stream cards
  • WarpVision
    • Added support for g726 codec (Panasonic LCD TV's (among others?) writing audio in this format.)
    • R&D for DVD menu
    • Working on recording
  • DWS 2007
  • kBuild
  • Lucide
  • NewView

15. January - 21 January

  • UniAud
    • HDA code updated
    • AC97 code updated. A couple new codecs added. Some AD 19XX codecs features expanded
    • Other hardware updates from ALSA keeps on coming
  • WarpVision
    • Fixed a DART issue (no sound)
    • Fixed slider position when playing RM files
    • Fixed (134, 135)
    • Fixed DVD rip playback
    • various FFMPEG updates and other small fixes
  • FM/2
  • kBuild
  • Lucide
    • Freetype update to version 2.3.0
    • Use UClip library from Yuri Dario for clipboard operations
    • French NLS update
    • Use raw data format for print queue, this avoids metafile creation
    • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

Newsletter #26

8. January - 14 January

1. January - 7 January

Newsletter #25

25. December - 31 December

  • Best Wishes
    • netlabs.org wishes you all the best for 2007, we are looking forward to another year full of projects :)
  • eCUPS Updates
  • netlabs.org server news
    • The basic server setup is done, we are running FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine
    • Adrian started to configure the different services and preparing migration
    • Goal is to finish basic setup before January 7th
  • UniAudio
    • Latest updates from ALSA being ported into UNIAUD
    • Still research stage for SW multistreams
  • WarpVision
    • Various fixes
    • DVD menu heavily under investigation
    • Musepack support added
  • DSS updates
    • The ShowImage and the SlideShow modules have been updated to version 1.7.1
    • Small update to better recognize errors due to having not enough free shared memory
    • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dssaver/Modules
  • FM/2
  • kLIBC
  • Lucide
  • Voyager Documentation

18. December - 24 December

  • UniAudio news
    • Started research on adding software mixing into UNIAUD32. This has to be fully transparent for old MMOS2 and new UNIAUD API applications
  • WarpVision news
    • Continued work on DVD menu, so no new features at the moment
  • QT3 Application
    • Paul Smedley ported Scribus to eComStation
    • Scribus is an open-source program for creating professional page layouts
    • It uses Cairo as a rendering engine
    • Please read the "Known Issues" on Pauls website
    • See: http://smedley.info/os2ports/scribus.html
  • Lucide

Newsletter #24

11. December - 17 December

  • netlabs.org server news
    • The new server did arrive
    • It will be setup in the nearest future
  • UniAudio news
    • Investigating differences of setting up PCM with UNIAUD API and MMOS2 API on HDA. UNIAUD API works ok, MMOS2 does not.
  • WarpVision news
    • Simplify codec detection
    • SSE fix for WMA
    • Code cleanup
    • FLV1 support added
    • DART playback fixed
    • Fixed old style DVD playback
    • Added DVD playback style selection (Menu or old style). Menu style is under active development now
  • Updates for compiling XWorkPlace
  • PathRewrite article
  • kBuild
  • QT

4. December - 10 December

  • XWorkPlace 1.0.6
  • WarpIN 1.0.14
  • netlabs.org server news, we ordered!
    • CPU: AMD Dual Core A64 X2 4200+ / 2x2200MHz / 2x512KB Cache
    • Motherboard: TYAN 3950 AM2 with VGA / 2x Gbit Intel LAN (4 DIMM)
    • Memory: 2048MB ECC DDRAM2(2x1024MB)
    • Backplanes: 8 SATA Backplanes
    • Harddisk: 3 x 320GB SATA 7.200 U/min with 16MB Cache (Seagate)
    • Controller: 3Ware SATA-Raid 9550SX-8 (0,1,5,10) 8xHDD 128MB
    • Power supply: 510 Watt Zippy
    • We will put some more news online as soon as we got the box!
  • UniAudio news
    • Added latest HDA code.
    • Fixed ICH2/3 init and latest ICH traps
  • WarpVision news
    • DVD menus investigations are still going on
    • Fixed MPEG1 video distortions
    • Fixed crash in WMV3 files
    • Fixed precaching Added playlist
    • Added missing files Add palette support for DVD navigation
    • Various documentation updates
    • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui/timeline
  • kBuild
  • Lucide
  • Voyager Documentation

Newsletter #23

27. November - 3 December

  • New Webserver for netlabs.org
    • netlabs.org sent out a request to support us with money for new server hardware, replacing the current six year old one.
    • We gathered the 2000 Euros within less than 24 hours! Thanks a *lot* to the whole community!
    • We will inform you about the next steps very soon.
  • eCUPS
  • kBuild
  • SlideShow and ShowImage Modules for Doodles Screen Saver
  • Uniaud new Release Candidate
  • WarpVision
    • Stream code reorganized to be more understandable
    • Stream code reorganizing allows to implement DVD menus (first steps done)
    • Stream code reorganizing allows to implement stream plugins
    • Implemented one cache for all stream types (simplify things a lot)
  • Netlabs Object Model (NOM), the object model for Voyager
    • Checked into SVN
    • gcc and libc based
    • IDL compiler works
    • Most of the class related stuff is working
    • No class replacing yet
    • No dynamic class loading yet
    • Binary interface not stable. Will change in the future
  • Voyager desktop
    • Checked into SVN
    • Completely based on NOM
    • Some basic desktop, GUI and support classes
    • Very experimental at the moment

20. November - 26. November

Newsletter #22

13. November - 19. November

  • GenMAC 2 Released
    • Many new network cards supported
    • Now split between basic driver and vendor packages, due to size growth.
    • See instructions in basic package for supported NICs and installation instructions.
    • See: http://genmac.netlabs.org/
  • New XWLAN v3.0
  • AMPOS2
  • kLibC
  • Lucide
  • QT 3 Library for OS/2
    • Several fixes to QLibrary
    • Kernel fixes for compiler warning and recursion
    • Spontaneous traps of Qt applications during window management have been fixed
    • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/ticket/34
  • Uniaud
    • APM (non ACPI) stuff testing still going. Resume does not hang system anymore but still no sound after it.
    • Inegrating latest ALSA sources
  • WVGUI
    • Playing around with new demuxers. AVI demuxer is good, but others are not very handy. Especially for DVDs. Planning to use new demuxer for AVI's only. Need a lot of additional tests
    • Fixed CDDA playing (still need to add caching)
    • Planning (research stage) to use common cacher for DVD/VCD/CDDA/File/Network streams
  • WDSybil

6. November - 12. November

Newsletter #21

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30. October - 5. November

23. October - 29. October

Newsletter #20

16. October - 22. October

09. October - 15. October

Newsletter #19

03. October - 08. October

  • QT3 Library for OS/2
  • Project Voyager
    • Work has started on putting together a comprehensive document that describes the Voyager project.
  • Uniaud
    • Thanks to user feedback, HDA finally works with MMOS2
    • Preparing a new release
  • WVGUI
    • Preparations for 1.02 still in progress. Waiting on fixes from FFMPEG team

26. September - 01. October

  • Uniaud
    • HDA week (Intel new on board audio codecs)
      • MMOS2 on HDA chipsets almost work
  • Psi/2 (0.10.1)
    • Psi is a Jabber client aimed at experienced users.
    • Bug fixes
      • Support for SSL connections (e.g. gmail.com)
      • Built-in support fo Innotek Font Engine (anti-aliased fonts)
      • Important bug fixes (such as system timer resource leak)
    • Homepage and Download: http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/Psi

Newsletter #18

18. September - 25. September

  • WarpVision GUI
    • Bug fixing time. Due to preparation of new release, there is a lot of bug fixing going on.
      • Fixed On Screen Display (OSD) in Warp Overlay (WO) video out plugin
      • Fixed playing files in libav format. Some SWF files start to play sound.
      • Added workaround for some gcc issues.
      • Fixed crashes on SSE systems

11. September - 17. September

Newsletter #17

4. September - 10. September

28. August - 3. September

Newsletter #16

21. - 27. August

14. - 20. August

Newsletter #15

07. - 13. August

31. July - 06. August

  • XWP
    • The German NLS package for version 1.0.5 is available.
    • The NLS package can now be installed from the main XWorkplace package as well, if they reside in the same directory.
    • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/nls
  • GBM Plugin Version 1.10 for Lucide
    • Save bitmaps in any format supported by GBM (works only for one page bitmaps and requires the latest Lucide beta)
    • Now supports dynamic lookup of GBM.DLL. Either via LIBPATH or look into the directory where lugbm.dll is located.
    • GBM Homepage: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

Newsletter #14

24. July - 30. July

  • Voyager news
  • FAT32 Driver now with Subversion Repository
  • XWorkPlace 1.0.5
    • The new 1.0.5 version has been released. This fixes a load of bugs and adds a few small enhancements. You can find it in the usual places on Netlabs and Hobbes:
    • ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-5.exe
    • http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/xwp-1-0-5.zip moving to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wps/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-5.zip
    • Please report *reproducible* bugs on the bugtracker at:
    • Bugfixes:
      • Tidied up the Recovery Choices options on the Desktop Properties Archives tab. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Double clicking the XCenter Date/Time widgets brought up the System Clock first rather than the eCS Clock in eCS. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • The tooltip for the XCenter Date widget now has the time rather than the date as the tooltip text. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Split view folder status bars now update correctly when selecting/deselecting objects. Bug 326. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Cured cosmetic problems when resizing the panes of a split view folder. Bug 228. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Corrected missing objects during installation. Bug 695. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed Association problem when Turbo Folders/Extended Associations were enabled. Bug 14. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed missing WPS file filters during first import with Turbo Folders/Extended Associations. Bug 399. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed XPager virtual desktop switching on top/bottom borders. Bug 406. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed exporting of Extended Associations. Bug 702. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed WarpCenter stuck in XCenter's Window List widget. Bug 11. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed partially broken Undo in XWP Setup notebook, Features tab. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • NLS Settings are now correctly fetched from the Country object on W4 FP13+ systems. Bug 614 again. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed Default and Undo on Folder Views tab of Workplace Shell object. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed traps when XFldDisk class was not registered. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed broken Bitmap display in Light Table folders. Bug 371. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
    • New Features:
      • NLS packages are now detected during install. Bug 686. Implemented by Christian Hennecke.
      • XWP has some updated icons courtesy of David Graser.
      • ACPI power-off option is now available with XShutdown. Implemented by Paul Ratcliffe.
  • Cairo Graphics Library Version 1.2.0
  • PSI Port - Jabber Client for eCS and OS/2

19. July - 23. July

  • Lucide Beta 2
    • The Lucide document viewer is updated to Beta 2
    • It is available through the eComStation Beta Zone, after login at http://www.ecomstation.com/
  • GBM Plug-In for Lucide Version 1.00 Beta 2
  • GenMac Trap solution
    • If it traps as before, please add this to the GenMac Wrapper section in protocol.ini:
      • DebugLevel = "NONE"
      • Options = "STACK32"
    • That is most likely the fix
    • This seems to happen with Intel 2200 chipsets, for instance.
    • It will be solved in the upcoming 1.7 release (no release date set yet)

Newsletter #13

10. July - 18. July

03. July - 09. July

Newsletter #12

26. June - 02. July

  • Lucide Plug-In based on GBM
    • Heiko Nitzsche has created a Plug-In for Lucide that can handle a large number of bitmap formats
    • The Plug-In is, just as Lucide, still a beta version
    • URL: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

19. June - 25. June

Newsletter #11

12. June - 18. June

5. June - 11. June

  • Lucide Beta 1 released
    • One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated into the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop, printing and which makes it as easy as possible to work with PDF and other filetypes on eComStation.

Newsletter #10

29. May - 4. June

22. - 28. May

Newsletter #9

15. - 21. May

08. - 14. May

Newsletter #8

01. - 07. May

24. - 30. April

Newsletter #7

17. - 23. April

10. - 16. April

Newsletter #6

03. - 09. April

27. - 31. March / 01. - 02. April

Newsletter #5

Participation

As netlabs.org is mainly about open source projects, it is depending on participation of many people. This can be in different areas as everybody has different skills and interests.

  • How can you participate
    • Contribute to the NikiWiki
      • Visit our netlabs.org Wiki at http://wiki.netlabs.org and add your ideas and thoughts.
      • Revise existing articles and enhance them.
    • Contribute to EDM/2
      • As a developer you can add or extend articles at http://www.edm2.com.
      • Translate articles in other languages or correct them.
      • Support developers in jobs they do not like :-)
    • Organize new projects
      • If you have an idea for a new project try to find support for the idea in usergroups or with friends.
      • Talk to us about how we can support you as well.
    • netlabs.org community
      • Subscribe to the community@netlabs.org mailinglist (see NikiWiki for more details).
      • Discuss your thoughts and ideas with the whole netlabs.org community.

20. - 26. March

13. - 19. March

Newsletter #4

06. - 12. March

  • QT3 Library News
  • Updates to LibC
  • netlabs.org Wintercamp 2006
    • See: http://about.netlabs.org/?detailcontentregions_id=2
    • The yearly Wintercamp took place. As usual it was a week of great snowboarding and skiing, coding and talking about upcoming software projects
    • Voyager was one of the main topics of this Wintercamp. Details of the discussion will be presented at Developers Workshop 2006
    • There was plenty of snow in the Swiss alps :)

27. - 28. February and 01. - 05. March

Newsletter #3

20. - 26. February

13. - 19. February

Newsletter #2

06. - 12. February

30. - 31. January and 01. - 05. February

Newsletter #1

Although many OS/2 and eCS users worldwide know the existence of and the concept behind netlabs.org already for years. It still is surprising that a large group of people don't know what is going on or where to find things.

That is why some people, close to netlabs.org, decided to gather netlabs.org news and start to distribute that in a bi-weekly electronic newsletter. To share the news and make it easier for everybody to stay updated and always get the latest greatest open source OS/2 and eCS software!

This is the first newsletter, so please feel free to react and comment about it (see below). We are still in the phase of setting it up and are open for suggestions. Like we are not sure yet if people can subscribe to it themselves as well.

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units: http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

The page states that VAT has to be paid as well, this is *not* the case for the sponsoring units, netlabs.org gets the full amount you donate!

Thanks for your support!


Here is the news for January 16th - 29th 2006

23. - 29. January

16. - 22. January

  • Updates for GenMac are being prepared
    • when this update will be released is not yet clear!
    • HotPlug will be supported as this is important for proper PCCard (note, NOT PCMCIA!!) and USB support
    • WPA support for the WLAN cards is in the works
    • See http://wlan.netlabs.org
  • New version of Doodle's Screen Saver (version 1.51)
  • Fat32 driver version 0.9.11 now available as WPI package
    • Fixed non-recognition problem of USB removable drive change.
    • Fixed "free space" problem.
    • Fixed some minor warnings such as "non used variable" on compilation.
    • Fixed the problem that CACHEF32 cannot call "chkdsk.com" if a different drive is not a boot drive.
    • See http://fat32.netlabs.org/?show=download
  • QT3 Library News
    • the current version of the QT library for OS/2 is 3.3.1 RC-06
    • it is available from the netlabs.org FTP server (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt3/)
    • the current version has some limitations, like missing implementation of QProcess or QSound classes
    • this will be fixed in the next release
    • the next step will be 3.3.1 RC-07
    • you can track the development via the Trac timeline of Qt3 (http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline)
    • if you have ported applications to OS/2 or eCS with this library, please let us know!
    • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3
  • OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006
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