Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the immediate availability of eComStation 2.0 RC1.

This release is available to customers with an active Software Subscriptions Services subcription.

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

New in this release:
- Disk Resizer GUI
- GenMac support
- Bootable JFS
- ACPI 2.22
- multicore CPU support
- eComStation Virtual File System (Samba client support)

List of new features and bug fixes:
http://www.pmview.com/os2new.html IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you will
need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail that was
sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost this
information, please contact sales@blueprintsoftwareworks.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at http://www.pmview.com
Registered users, please note that the trial versions CANNOT be registered.

A temperature and voltage hardware monitor.

This application is a hardware monitor for NS LMxx, Winbond 8378x, Super-IO chips. Command line version only. Targeted for EPoX 8RDA6 mainboard.

Requirements: A mainboard with LM78 compatible monitor chipset,

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=EPoX_8RDA6

1. Introduction:
Most Samba packages for various *nix flavors come with a shell script in order to quickly start or stop the Samba services.

smb.cmd (written in REXX) provides the same for OS/2 and eCS.

2. Installation:
smb.cmd should reside in the same directory as smbd.exe and nmbd.exe.

3. Usage:
The usage of smb.cmd mimics the usage of the *nix shell scripts and is quite straight forward:

smb {start|stop|restart|status}

In addition a plugin feature found in IBM's TCPSTART.CMD is added to smb.cmd

This utility switches between IBM TrueType.DLL and FreeType.DLL. In addition FreeType options can be configured.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ft2gui102

Serenity Systems released Open Office 2.0.4 GA for eComStation yesterday.

Press release:
http://www.ecomstation.com/news.phtml?action=fullnews&id=2230

The software should be available for all users with a Support Agreement, even those with an expired one.

The 1.1.5 version will no longer be available.

I just noticed that on ecomstation.ru that the ACPI Manager, a GUI/console utility for testing ACPI has been updated a couple weeks ago.

"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."

General Network Utilities has been updated. This is a powerful Internet diagnostic tool kit featuring several tools designed to help you quickly identify problems, locate where the problem is, and gather data which can be used to solve the problem either directly or through your Internet Service Provider.

URL: http://ecomstation.ru/projects/gnu/

A package that includes FM2 3.05.09 and a warpin installer version of the FM2 Utilities has been released.

Using warpin you can now install both FM2 and the FM2 utilities in one simple process. The Utilities themselves have not been updated. So, if you already have the utilities installed and working with FM2 reinstalling them isn't necessary unless you change the install location of FM2 and they are not included in your PATH.

An OS/2 port of Cairo version 1.4.6 has been released. Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Note that Mozilla is moving towards using Cairo as its rendering engine. The latest version can be found in the Netlabs incoming directory.