Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:46:09 -0400 From: madodel Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: eComStation 2.0 beta 2 available for download ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Bob St.John (bstjohnDESPAM at DESPAMserenity-systems.com) Available for download to Software Subscription Services customers after login at Mensys or eComStation.biz. You can view the full readme at: http://ewiki.ecomstation.nl/ecomstation20beta2 An excerpt: == INTRODUCTION == This is the second beta release of eComStation 2.0. This product is available for download to all registered eComStation customers of Software Subscription Services. For more information on that, please visit: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/ - ACPI, This version installs and detects ACPI [updated to release 2.0.6] - SNAP/ENT the special licensed version of SNAP by Serenity is in there, we boot Snap directly from CD-Rom [updated to version 3.1.5, build 500] - Bootable JFS, this version is able to install on bootable JFS volumes. Installing onto a bootable JFS volume will show a dramatic performance increase! - Updated UNIAUD to version 1.1.4 RC1 - Updated all USB drivers to 10.162 - Generally the system has been brought up to date to the eComStation 1.2R release level - Additional debugging tools for bootable JFS (see \ECS\BOOTJFS for the tools and \ECS\DOC\BOOTJFS for documentation) - Replaced Mozilla with Firefox 1.5 & Thunderbird 1.5. Currently they are both installed together. - Replaced EscapeGL screensaver with DS Saver (which can be activated and configured from the desktop properties context menu) - Added Cairo library to enable the Cairo Screensaver modules. - Added Firewall configuration utility. Installed by default when TCP/IP is selected. - Added FAT32 and NTFS (readonly) IFS under "Experimental Features" - Added eSchemes application, a new way to configure the look and feel of the desktop. This is considered highly experimental and as such can only be installed with Advanced Installation, under "Experimental Features" - Added additional eSchemes, as available from http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/ == WHAT TO TEST == We are especially interested in: - stability of Bootable JFS, we know there are some issues with Bootable JFS not being able to boot the system. Please note that if you boot to another volume with 'classic' JFS, you may not be able to access/boot your newly created Bootable JFS volume. To overcome this, you can boot from the eCS 2.0 beta 2 CD and perform a checkdisk from the Maintenance Console. - your experience with eSchemes. The developer needs feedback on the usability, stability and overall performance of eSchemes. - ACPI. It is possible to enable eShutdown (via the desktop properties contecxt menu) If enabled, and if ACPI is detected and installed on your system (automatically by the installer) you will be able to power-off the system with the shutdown button. - Firewall configuration. The Firewall configuration tool may need some tweaking and tuning in it's default values and settings. == DISTRIBUTION / CREATING CDS == This product is provided as a downloadable ISO file, this is a raw CD image that you can burn on CD-R media. For instruction on burning the CD image to CD please consult the PDF document howtoburncds.pdf in the same directory. The file to download is: ecs20beta2_cd1_en.zip (579.826.553 bytes) == TESTING THE DOWNLOADED FILE == You can verify the integrity of the download ISO file using this MD5 checksum: FD57-55AE-5D45-FBC3-FA50-244F-4200-1A19 ecs20beta2_en_cd1.iso To generate the MD5 checksum of your downloaded file, please download from Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/encrypt/md5suml.zip == USING DIFF TO REDUCE DOWNLOAD SIZE == If you already downloaded vnext_en_us_a1.zip earlier, you can also download a so called DIFF file, from which you can create the new ISO. This requires you to already have the previous ISO file available. The following DIFF file is offered: 7C3F-E7F7-1C37-BBB8-4824-7CAC-570C-D12F ecs20beta1b-beta2.diff which is contained in \diff\ecs20beta1b-beta2.zip (74.135.973 bytes) Please verify that you have the proper MD5 sum of the DIFF file and the original ISO file as well: 11C2-8EF1-65AB-D0D6-28CD-F48D-83D0-D447 ecs20beta1b_en_cd1.iso In order to create the full ISO out of the older files, issue the following command: (you can change the ISO names of course) gdiff -u ecs20beta1b_en_cd1.iso ecs20beta1b-beta2.diff ecs20beta2_en_cd1.iso GDiff is a tool of Daniel Hellerstein, more information can be found in gdiff.doc or on the following website: http://www.srehttp.org/apps/gdiff/ NOTE: Please verify the resulting ISO to have the correct MD5 sum, mentioned above. For instruction on burning the CD image to CD please consult the PDF document howtoburncds.pdf in the same directory. 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