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From: Joachim Benjamins <joachimDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl>

Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the 
immediate availability of eComStation 2.0 RC3, The Warpstock Europe 2007 
release.

This release is available to customers with an active Software 
Subscriptions Services subcription. It adds a few new features and contains 
a lot of updated drivers and fixes.

More details can be found at http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

!!! WHEN TESTING BETA SOFTWARE, ALWAYS BE SURE TO HAVE A TRIED AND TESTED 
BACKUP OF YOUR SYSTEM !!!

** Netware installation from CD1 **

It is now possible to add Netware client support to eComStation, straight 
from the installation CD. This is especially important for those customers 
that have a Netware networking environment.

** Preboot harddisk integrity check **

There are several situations which may cause installation problems with LVM 
in the install process. In this release, it is possible to disable the 
integrity check at page 2 (miscellaneous) of the eComStation installer 
preboot menu.

** Harddisk volume resizing **

This version has a custom DFSee engine that enables reliable RESIZING of 
FAT32 and NTFS filesystems to allow shrinking an existing Windows 
installation to make room for eComStation on the same system. The DFSee 
engine included in RC3 is at level 9.02.

The GUI to this tool has been updated and is now using a graphical 
interface. To invoke it, please select 'Paritition Resizing Tool' from the 
Installation Volume Manager which can be called during installation (choose 
'New Volume' to start MiniLVM).

** Bootable JFS **

This release of eComStation contains the option to install the operating 
system on a JFS volume. The advantage of doing this is that the amount of 
diskcache is only limited by system memory (typically 10% of available 
memory is assigned) This increased cache size gives a huge gain in overall 
system performance.

** Genmac 2.1 Experimental **

This package provides generic driver support for several network interface 
cards under OS/2 and eComStation.  Moreover, Genmac is enabled to support 
WPA encryption with the Wireless LAN Monitor 3.x or better.

Genmac and the Wireless LAN monitor will be installed when the appropriate 
hardware is detected by the installer.  If it is not detected, you can 
manually select the driver in the network installation dialog.

Version 2.1 of GenMac now supports the NETBEUI protocol.

Version 2.1 of GenMac now offers suspend & resume on a limited set of 
network adapters (when used in conjunction with ACPI) - this is an 
*experimental* feature.

** ACPI 3.04 & APM 1.19 **

Support for ACPI is available in this release.  The current version is 
3.04. ACPI will be automatically enabled if appropriate hardware is 
detected.  You can manually enable or disable ACPI support at page 4 (USB & 
ACPI) of the eComStation installer preboot menu.

** multicore CPU support **

This release supports the installation of eComStation on a MultiCore CPU 
computer. This includes Intel Core Duo , Core2 Duo and AMD 64 X2.  To 
enable it, you can do so in the ACPI Wizard that is launched from the Post 
Installation tasks at the end of the installation. Alternatively you can 
start the ACPI Wizard at any time from the install/remove folder in the 
Local System folder on the desktop.

** eComStation Virtual File System (Samba client support) **

Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client set 
originally made for UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and 
OS/2 servers or clients.  eComStation has a native implementation of 
SMB/CIFS server/client set - IBM LAN Manager and IBM Peer.  These products 
have not been recently updated and may have some compatibility issues with 
modern Windows SMB/CIFS implementations.

Serenity Systems International has reached an agreement with Blueprint 
Software Works for the inclusion of the 'eComStation Virtual File System' 
driver which provides support for Samba Client.

== REPORTING ==

To tell us your findings, please create a report at:

http://www.ecomstation.com/support/rc3report/

You are also welcome to join the TestTeam if you want to discuss this beta 
and future developments.  See http://ewiki.ecomstation.nl/TestTeam for more 
details.

== SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES ==

Please note that although some subscriptions have expired by now, you are 
not required to purchase a renewal to obtain the GA version of eComStation 
2.0. If you want to try this RC2 release however, you are encouraged to 
renew your Software Subscription Services contract.

More details can be found at http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

Enjoy!


Serenity Systems International





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