Netlabs News

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects.

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

5. March - 11. March

• Samba for eCS (OS/2)
  • There is now also an SVN repository and a TRAC for the Samba server
  • see: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba
• Updates to The Config.sys Documentation Project
  • Finally "The Config.sys Documentation Project" and the "ConfigTool 1.3.0 database" are combined together into a single wiki page on EDM2.
  • The invitation is open to everybody in the OS/2-eCS community to extend the wiki and add more config.sys commands.
  • http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project
• Voyager News
  • Added patches from Winter Camp 2007 hacking.
  • Basic drag and drop for the desktop. Still working on that.
  • Some more methods for the NOM kernel classes.
  • Some automatic parameter checking implemented when calling methods.
  • Preparation for runtime type information and introspection.
  • Improved the Doxygen documentation.
  • As usual a bunch of bug fixes... err... code refinements ;).
  • Updates to the FAQ regarding license and source code.
  • See SVN for more information: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline and http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/timeline
• FM/2
  • Small bug fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• WDSibyl
  • Source code updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wdsibyl/timeline
• PATA/SATA drivers
  • Source code updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline

26. February - 4. March

• Warpstock Europe Website Discussion
  • netlabs.org wiki is used to host a general discussion about concept for a Warpstock Europe website
  • User input is welcome!
  • See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Warpstock_Europe_Websites
• DosBox version 0.70
  • Now supports playing Audio-CDs in DOSBox
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dosbox
  • Also of interest to DosBox users: DosBoxFront
    • See: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront
• Samba Server 3.0.24 and 3.0.25pre
  • Paul Smedley is building Samba Server for netlabs.org
  • See: http://smedley.info/os2ports/samba.html
• Uniaud
  • We are working on getting the source code buildable
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud
• Network Connection Manager - Design for follow-up to Wireless LAN Monitor
  • Christian Langanke has started to work on the design for a follow-up to the Wireless LAN Monitor
  • See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Network_Connection_Manager
• netlabs.org without Adrian for 3 months
  • Adrian Gschwend will be on vacation for 3 months :-)
  • Read more about it here: http://blog.netlabs.org/?p=9
• FM/2
  • Small bug fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kLIBC
  • Small updates in the source code
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• NewView
  • Various small updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline

Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing

This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis. Sources for news are various. We know the following:

• #netlabs channel, just connect and see what comes by
• http://news.netlabs.org/
• various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts. The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org It uses the following IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and then copy the new news into it, to make life easy :-) The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view mode. Check the text a second time, and align it a bit. Address it with BCC to the following addresses:

• martin at os2world dot com
• stevew at jafar dot hartnell dot edu
• submit at os2voice dot org
• webmaster at ecomstation dot com
• webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
• ktk at netlabs dot org
• j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
• os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.