ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution

Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by mhd on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:54PM (#14360309)

So this is the same deal as with eCos, i.e. the provider doesn't have source access to the innards and just fiddles with some common drivers and desktop tools?

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Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by jccalhoun on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:27PM (#14362491)

According to their About page https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ :

Arca Noae was founded in July, 2014 when several of the developers who previously worked on the eComStation project felt that the future for the platform looked bleak, a feeling which came about due to lack of progress (or any work being done at all), therefore demonstrating a distinct lack of commitment on the part of the project’s new owner.

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Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by PeCaN on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:25PM (#14362934)

A new kernel with SMP support suggests they have at least some source access.

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Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by mhd on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:56PM (#14363163)

There were versions of OS/2 with SMP support, if I remember correctly.

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Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by acdha on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:04PM (#14364132)

In 1997 I had a dual Pentium 90 running either OS/2 or BeOS. It was really cool seeing the CPU monitor light up during a big compile.

(I got better at picking operating systems)

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Re:ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution by PeCaN on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:12PM (#14363601)

I thought it was just the PowerPC one (which had a different, Mach-based kernel), but it turns out¹ that it has had some sort of SMP support since 2.11 in 1993.

1. http://www.edm2.com/0509/smp2.html

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