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Ärende: [VOICENWS] Event: Some highlights from Warpstock Europe Day 1
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From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net

Just a short report from Haarlem in the Netherlands where Warpstock 2011
started today.  A lot of folks I haven't seen in a long time as well as a few I
have never met.  The main news is that eComStation 2.1 will be released here on
Saturday, with an ISO available for download shortly there after.  This will be
both an English and a German version.  Dutch and Italian are still being
translated.  This release will have all the updates since 2.0, and specifically
the following new features:  

  Airboot to replace the IBM Boot Manager (though if BM is installed it can be
used).  This will save a primary partition.
  New Graphical disk checker for install.
  A brand new AHCI driver based on Daniella's driver.
  Firefox 4.0 will now be included.
  The new File Open Container will be available for install but not default.
  The new MultiMac network driver will be available for supported network
devices.
  A new CPU throttling utility that I'm told will provide significantly better
battery use times for laptops.
  ACPI will be at the 3.18 level.  

eComStation 3.0 was discussed.  This will include an updated version of the
Panorama video driver. an update to the USB stack, updated ACPI driver, the
eCUPs printer driver, more new MultiMac network driver support (including Intel
wireless chipsets), Flash 10 and Java plugins for Firefox (I also heard today
that there is a fixed version of Odin32 being tested that stops the SMP system
hangs).  Compatibility with the newer EFI boot standard was discussed as well. 
IPv6 is being investigated, butit's felt that backward compatibility with IPv4
will remain widespread for some time to come.  

To me probably the biggest news was that Mensys has recently renewed their OEM
contract with IBM through 2014 (this was the 3rd contract renewal), and they
seemed reasonably assure that further renewals will continue.  This is because
2010 saw a 3 fold over 2009 (which had been the best year for sales to date)
increase of new eCS licenses being sold and this trend is continuing into 2011.
 More and more companies are coming to Mensys for eCS to run on replacement
hardware for mission critical OS/2 installs.  Several major companies were
mentioned including the US Postal Service and Iridium Phone Communicatipons. 
There is also some new expanded commercial use which is also helping to fund
new eComStation development projects.  I think the entire event is much more
upbeat this year then it has been in years.  

More news over the next 2 days.  I am also looking forward to the next
Warpstock event, this October in Raleigh/Durham North Carolina, in North
America.  

Warpstock Europe: http://www.warpstock.eu
Warpstock: http://www.warpstock.org

Mark
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