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Newsletter #5
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 * Contribute to the NikiWiki
 * Visit our netlabs.org Wiki at http://wiki.netlabs.org and add your ideas and thoughts.
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 * 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

 * QT3 Library News
 * Various items added and fixed again
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
 * GenMac 1.7 test release
 * 10 new chipsets added
 * WPA support coming
 * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/260
 * LibC 0.6.1 and Unix utils
 * Updated majorly, see http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline for a list of changes (a lot :-))
 * LibC ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
 * Knut built some utils as well (coreutils and more), see ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/alpha
 * EDM2 Updates again
 * See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

13. - 19. March

 * GCC 3.3.5 CSD1 released
 * For a list of changes, please see the Documentation Package mentioned below
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/query?status=closed&milestone=libc-0.6.1
 * Download Runtime: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
 * Download Compiler: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/gcc-3.3.5-csd1.zip
 * Download Documentation: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/gcc-3.3.5-csd1-doc.zip
 * New WDSibyl Release
 * Documentation is available in Englisch and German
 * WDSibyl is a Pascal compiler for Win32 and OS/2
 * See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wdsibyl/
 * Update of Doodle's Screen Saver to Version 1.6
 * A WarpIn install package is available and also the source code
 * There are three new modules, bug fixes and other improvements
 * see the changelog or the homepage of DSSaver for details
 * Homepage: http://dssaver.netlabs.org/
 * WVGUI 1.0 RC3
 * RC3 contains documentation in INF format in the DOC subdirectory
 * See the documentation for a changelog
 * Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0rc3.zip
 * Developers Workshop
 * new details for some presentations
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006#Schedule
 * EDM2
 * The OS/2 API Doc was updated, the UniCode part
 * See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

06. - 12. March

 * QT3 Library News
 * QWidget::setMask was implemented and a pixmaps bug was fixed
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3
 * Updates to LibC
 * During Wintercamp, large changes were made to LibC
 * A new release of LibC will be released soon
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
 * 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

 * Updates to EDM/2
 * the OS/2 API documentation had some small updates
 * See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/OS2_API
 * See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
 * Updates to LibC
 * bugs have been fixed and a couple of new features have been introduced into LibC
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline

20. - 26. February

 * Voyager & OS/2 Open Source Software
 * Voyager is a netlabs.org project to provide a WPS like desktop based on open source software
 * There will be a lot of discussion about Voyager at the Developers Workshop 2006, which will take place in Biel, Switzerland (8. & 9. April 2006)
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Voyager
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
 * Netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006 News
 * The first topics for presentations have been announced
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006#Workshop_Program
 * Registration for the Workshop is open
 * Registration is again via Mensys, the cost is 45 EUR for two days and 25 EUR for one day, entrance for students is free
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006

13. - 19. February

 * Ongoing FAT32 Development
 * Lars started to make bigger source code modification
 * If you test stuff, please be sure to read the User and Dev list, to know what is experimental what is a release version!
 * If you want to help with development, or just follow development discussion, join the FAT32DEV list
 * See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32dev
 * For users, there is a mailinglist too
 * See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user
 * Homepage: http://fat32.netlabs.org/
 * Netlabs.org mentioned in Newsforge Article
 * the article was also mentioned on Slashdot
 * See: http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/01/30/192226.shtml?tid=150&tid=132&tid=16
 * WarpIN 1.0.9 released
 * A changelog can be read during the installation process
 * Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-9.exe
 * See: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
 * WarpVision 1.0 RC2 released
 * After unpacking the archive, be sure to read \doc\wvgui.INF
 * it also contains a changelog
 * TRAC Tickets: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui/report/1
 * Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0rc2.zip

06. - 12. February

 * netlabs.org FTP Server mirror
 * The University of Erlangen mirrors the netlabs.org FTP server
 * See: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/os2/mirrors/ftp.netlabs.org
 * netlabs.org news now on the Wiki as well
 * http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter
 * QT3 Library News
 * QRegion was implemented
 * if you need a cutting edge version of the QT3 port, check it out from the subversion repository!
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3
 * Valknut 0.3.7 was ported to OS/2 and eCS
 * Valknut is a program that uses the Direct Connect protocol. It is compatible with other DC clients, such as the original DC from Neomodus, DC++ and derivatives. Valknut also interoperates with all common DC hub software.
 * a QT3 library from Subversion was used for this port
 * because it requires QProcess and QSound
 * See: http://dcgui.berlios.de/
 * See: Screen Shot
 * See: http://froloff.homeip.net/zips/valknut-0.3.7-os2.zip

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

 * Universal Audio driver bug reporting
 * if you have problems with the Universal Audio driver, PLEASE open a problem ticket in TRAC
 * this is the only way to make sure that the problem is not forgotten and that you get help from the author
 * see: Open Tickets
 * see: Create New Ticket
 * LIBC TRAC tickets are now in the newsgroups as well
 * Tickets and feedback to tickets, for LIBC, are now also send to the gmane newsgroup
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/report/1
 * See: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.libc.user

Newsletter #1
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Here is the news for January 16th - 29th 2006

23. - 29. January

 * Updates for UniAudio
 * a new release is available at the ftp server: Version 1.1.4 Release Candidate 1
 * this version is ACPI safe (it can be used with the ACPI driver from the eComStation Beta Zone)
 * to report bugs, open a ticket in the "trac" for UniAudio
 * http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud
 * See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114rc1.zip
 * Updated WarpVision
 * a new release is available, being the Version 1.0 Release Candidate 1
 * See: http://warpvision.netlabs.org/
 * Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0rc1.zip
 * XWP 1.0.4 Swedish
 * The Swedish language files have been released
 * See: http://xworkplace.netlabs.org
 * QT3 Library News
 * Alpha channel support for pixmaps was implemented
 * QWidget::setMask was implemented for non-toplevel widgets
 * If you want to get involved in the project, there are mailing lists available
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/wiki/WikiStart
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3

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)
 * Russian language support
 * Fixes
 * Two new modules, based on Cairo
 * See http://dssaver.netlabs.org
 * 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
 * the initial website for the Developers Workshop is now online
 * you can find information about the location, and how to get there, as well as some hotel recommendations
 * See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006