eComStation 2.2 demo CD beta 5

Guest post by martini 2013-12-10 OS/2 9 Comments

A new demo live CD of eComStation 2.2 beta, the evolution of OS/2 Warp, is now available. The new live demo CD (beta 5) can be downloaded after a free registration from the eComStation site. There is some discussion about it on the OS2World.com forum.

9 Comments

2013-12-11 9:39 am

p13.
Time to take it for a test drive.

I remember running warp v4 on my old ps/2 9585.

Good times.
2013-12-11 1:30 pm

biffuz
the memory

requirements are quite steep (at least 160 MB of system memory).

I couldn’t resist a laugh

The only supported virtual machines for this Demo CD are Parallels Desktop and Microsoft Virtual PC.

Someone should tell them the latter isn’t sold anymore.

I have old versions of both, I will give it a try. I hope it goes better than Warp 3 or 4, I was never able to use neither.

2013-12-11 4:39 pm

zima
>The only supported virtual machines for this Demo CD are Parallels Desktop and Microsoft Virtual PC.

Someone should tell them the latter isn’t sold anymore.

Last time I tried (few months ago), the older Microsoft Virtual PC was available for a free download from MS site…

2013-12-12 12:32 pm

henderson101
And if you install Windows XP mode in Windows 7, you also get Virtual PC included (as that is what runs the VM).

2013-12-11 11:25 pm

shakeshuck
“The only supported virtual machines for this Demo CD are Parallels Desktop and Microsoft Virtual PC.”

OS/2 has come a long way since those days it was competing against microsoft… the only VMs supported are those owned by them!

Edited 2013-12-11 23:26 UTC

2013-12-12 3:03 pm

biffuz
Parallels isn’t owned by Microsoft.

There’s a technical reason for this limited support, though: currently Parallels and VPC are the only VM to emulate the x86 instructions required by OS/2.

But now I’m reading that VirtualBox does it too. I’m going to try it right now

EDIT: ok, it displays the desktop background and the taskbar (with CPU usage and clock which are updating), but no icons, the mouse pointer has a hourglass, and doesn’t respond to clicks. Sigh.

Edited 2013-12-12 15:18 UTC

2013-12-12 8:51 pm

Lonney
Boots and runs fine on VirtualBox 4.3.4 with the extensions pack installed. Using the default settings for OS/2, thou I did bump the memory to 512mb.

2013-12-12 9:54 pm

biffuz
Horray!!!

Posting from eCS Vbox 4.3.3 didn`t like it.

The GUI seems one of those ugly and poorly assorted Linux GUIs of the late `90s, including the horrible font smoothing.

It comes with Firefox 10 which looks completely out of place, and no office, graphics, or development apps. Pretty much useless.

2013-12-13 11:53 am

martini
The OS/2 and eComStation community hangs out at: OS2World.com

Mensys, with community efforts, is also porting OpenOffice 4 and Firefox 17. We already have a betas of those programs available.

We need more help to grow the community and move forward in the open source path.

Regards.

Martin