Netlabs bi weekly newsletter

Newsletter #13

10. July - 18. July

• UniAudio Test Build
  • See the enclosed changelog file for details.
  • Only use this build if you have problems with your current version and please report bugs via TRAC
  • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud_testcase.zip
  • TRAC: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud

03. July - 09. July

• PathRewrite Article updated
  • The PathRewrite article in EDM/2 is updated
  • URL: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Pathrewrite
• WarpIN package for Lucide
  • A WarpIN installer package for Lucide is created
• QT3 Library News
  • Some internal Drag and Drop fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline

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

• LIBC PathRewrite Article in EDM2
  • This article is of interest for developers who port Linux/UNIX applications to eComStation
  • URL: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Pathrewrite

Newsletter #11

12. June - 18. June

• Everblue updated
  • Major steps forward, like stability improvements and PM hangs solved.
  • http://svn.netlabs.org/everblue/timeline
• Doodle's Screen Saver 1.7 released
  • Optimized Matrix module, now uses less CPU
  • Italian language support
  • Small mouse movement won't stop screen saving
  • Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dssaver_v17.zip
  • Website: http://dssaver.netlabs.org
• Lucide Beta 1.1 released
  • Poppler library update to v0.5.3
  • Added settings dialog
  • Added asynchroneous opening of documents
  • Custom zoom level
  • Fixed crash on long filenames
  • Fixed crash and redraw problem when opening new file
  • http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide

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

• There is a first license proposal for upcoming netlabs.org projects, namely for The Voyager Project. It is a dual-license of CDDL and LGPL.
  • http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.voyager.devel/43
• The German freeX Magazine 4'2006 features an article about The Voyager Project with some details about the project. The article is written by Adrian Gschwend, freeX even has it on its cover!
  • http://www.cul.de/freex.html
• There is movement on the GenMAC front, Willibald Meyer is busy working on USB support. If you have any USB NIC devices then we need your feedback: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/369

22. - 28. May

• WarpVisionGUI Version 1.0.1 Released
  • Version 1.0.1 is a bug fix release of version 1.0
  • Homepage: http://warpvision.netlabs.org/
  • Report bugs here: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui
• XWLAN Wireless LAN Monitor Version 2.14
  • New version 2.14 is released
  • Please see the excellent documentation in the changelog
  • Homepage: http://wlan.netlabs.org/
  • Download: ftp://www.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan214.zip

Newsletter #9

15. - 21. May

• New SDL Release 1.2.10 available for OS/2 and eComStation
  • Doodle has ported the most recent version of the SDL libraries
  • The OS/2 specific changes have also been committed back to the main SDL repository
  • Download Binary: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/sdl/sdl-1.2.10-bin-20060517.zip
  • Download Source: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/sdl/sdl-1.2.10-src-20060517.zip
• FAT32 Test Release
  • An experimental test release of the FAT32 driver was created on May 17 2006
  • Writes to FAT32 partitions should be faster now
  • THIS IS A TEST RELEASE AND SHOULD ONLY BE USED ON TEST INSTALLATIONS, BUT DATA CORRUPTION MAY OCCUR!!!
  • It is available through the fat32user group at YahooGroups
  • See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user/

08. - 14. May

• FAT32 Progress
  • There is ongoing development of the FAT32 IFS for OS/2 and eComStation
  • A new test version of the driver will be released in the not too distant future
  • Mailing list for users: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user/
  • Mailing list for developers: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32dev/
• New SWT for OS/2 Development
  • SWT is the basis for porting the Eclipse development environment to OS/2 and eComStation
  • See the mailinglist/newsgroup for current progress
  • A subversion repository is already created
  • Mailing List: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.swt.devel
  • Subversion Repository: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt

Newsletter #8

01. - 07. May

• EDM2 Updates
  • The formatting of some articles about the OS/2 API Documentation has been improved
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
• WarpVision Build Instructions
  • If you want to compile WarpVision yourself, there are some helpful instructions available now
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui/wiki/WarpVisionBuildHowTo
• Added DWS 2006 presentations
  • Almost all Developers Workshop presentations are now available from the FTP Server (only one is still missing)
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/
• QT3 Library News
  • Drag and Drop will be implemented before the RC 7 comes out
  • There are plans to create an official binary and runtime distribution for the QT3 on OS/2
  • Various small fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline

24. - 30. April

• UniAudio
  • some custom fixes and new ALSA fixes
  • no new binaries available yet
• WarpVision 1.0 available
  • WarpVision Version 1.0 is finally available!
  • As usual, please read the INF file that comes with the distribution
  • Download WPI: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0GA.wpi
  • Download ZIP: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0GA.zip
• Cairo Version 1.1.2 released
  • A new version of the Cairo libraries are available for OS/2 and eComStation
  • Download binaries: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.1.2-os2-dev.zip
  • Download sources: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.1.2-os2-src-with-dependencies.zip
• WarpIn 1.0.10
  • Various bugs fixed
  • Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
  • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-10.exe
• FontLib Example in EDM2
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Ft2lib

Newsletter #7

17. - 23. April

• FAT32
  • FAT32 has now moved to SVN/TRAC as well
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32
• WPS-Wizard
  • Added to SVN/Trac: http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard
• EDM2 Updates
  • There are various updates to the EDM2 wiki
  • A number of articles originally published by Micho Durdevich were republished at EDM2
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Micho_Durdevich
• QT3 Library News
  • There have been some minor changes in the QT3 library
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline

10. - 16. April

• Odin
  • New odin release.
  • Check changelog for updates.
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/
• Cairo Stuff
  • The presentation on Cairo from the Developers Workshop 2006 is available now
  • Some Cairo examples are also available
  • Presentation: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/ProgrammingCairo-dws06.pdf
  • Cairo Examples: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.0.4-os2-dev.zip
• Everblue Update
  • A current build of Everblue is available for people to play with
  • This is intended for developers, not for regular end users
  • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/eb20060414.zip
  • Now in SVN: http://svn.netlabs.org/everblue

Newsletter #6

03. - 09. April

• XWLAN Wireless LAN Monitor
  • New version 2.13 is released
  • Please see the excellent documentation for a changelog
  • See: http://wlan.netlabs.org/
• netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006
  • Homepage: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
  • Presentations: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/
  • Recorded presentations: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/ogg/
  • Not all information is available and put online yet, so keep watching these locations the coming days!
  • Don't miss all the great stuff that has been discussed and showed (even via WebCam and Realtime audiostream!)
• QT3 Library News
  • Various enhancements, like a fixed trap after issuing exit() from a QApplication
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
• Multichannel Testing tool for Uniaud (NEW)
  • This tool is useful for setting up/testing a multichannel environment.
  • It requires UNIAUD audio driver and latest UNIAUD API (uniaud.dll from March 2006 or later).
  • The tool is a Presentation Manager application.
  • All needed information is included in the ZIP file, just read the readme file.
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/multtest.zip

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

• Samba Server and Client Update
  • A new version of the Netdrive Samba plugin and the Samba Server were released
  • It was built using the new LibC 0.6.1 CSD1
  • Netdrive plugin: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/ndpsmb-3.0.9-b13.zip
  • Samba Server: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/samba-3.0.9-a8.zip
• QT3 Library News
  • QSessionManger class was implemented
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3

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

• 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

Newsletter #4

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

Newsletter #3

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

Newsletter #2

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