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Re: ArcaOS without a future?

From a.b_@a1.net
Newsgroups comp.os.os2.apps
Subject Re: ArcaOS without a future?
Date 2024-01-24 12:20 +0100
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baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com schrieb:
> Hi Dave:
> ...
> ....I hacked in xwlan from my ECS for my WiFi.  ....

What need you to 'hack in'? Wasn't it that easy than installing the .wpi? You can even 
export your profiles from you old machine and import in into the installation. Any 
problems with that?

>
> ...I was hoping to die using OS/2, but now it looks like I will live longer, and OS/2 will die sooner.

I really hope so ;-).

...
> ...  Why cannot xwlan be modified to provide contemporary functionality?

Depends on what you define contemporary functionality. If you mean mimic the behavior what 
other OSes do today then one answer would be, cause no one needs it. No current wifi 
driver -> no need for xwlan. But even if we had newer wifi drivers I fear no one will 
catch up all the changes in wireless technology and UI expectations that were happening 
the last 15 years. I fear not even the interface to the driver (usually genmac) which was 
defined more that 20 years ago will be sufficient to current needs/hardware. So the 
answers are many - no need, no driver, no motivation, no resources for a complete new 
solution instead xwlan, only a few developers who can compile the current xwlan and even 
less who like do it, ...

> .. Why cannot a simple 32 bit native OS/2 browser with basic functionality be developed?

Ask yourself, why can't you do it by yourself? I think the same arguments are valid for 
the waste majority of the other OS/2 users too.

Regards,
Andi

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ArcaOS without a future? "baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com" <baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com> - 2024-01-11 19:34 -0800
  Re: ArcaOS without a future? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 09:14 -0800
    Re: ArcaOS without a future? "baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com" <baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com> - 2024-01-13 16:34 -0800
      Re: ArcaOS without a future? a.b_@a1.net - 2024-01-24 12:20 +0100

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