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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 14, 2026, 02:49:33 am »
Yeah. I asked them if we achieved 200 virtual users and all 200 users were willing to pay something for the client app..and that was their response. That would have been over 6 thousands of dollars in "seats" plus the client license fees. That would be a pretty high bar and I would think enough financial return.So they are really not interested in developing a native app. in one sense I get it.. coding for os/2 isn't an easy venture. They don't even have a native app for os/x which has a lot more users

 The big question is if we can continue to make the browser compatible enough. Like if they come out with html6 will it be codable with what we have. I would think coding the base might be easier then the whole browser but I don't know.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by JTA on March 14, 2026, 01:06:42 am »
That last bit from Winflector is interesting, because I offered to buy them an ArcaOS seat & such (afaik, the only $$$ part of a dev machine's software, as all else seems to be free or open source?).

I'm not sure, but I thought that an existing Winflector 32-bit linux client would mean a fairly easy port to OS/2.

So, the bigger problem is that they think OS/2 is too "niche". Unless AN gets involved, it may be hard to dissuade them from this view ... if there are no seat numbers, there's no way to judge interest.

How do we get AN, EComStation, and OS/2 Warp seat count? I can see potential seat numbers in the thread view counts on OS2World ... other sources?
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Internet / Re: Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by JTA on March 14, 2026, 01:00:27 am »
I'm not sure, but it seems like it takes time for everyone to find a thread ... if you go by thread view counts, some stay low, and some surge into the 10's of 1000's.

Also not sure of the actual user base (seat) count ... I'd think Arca Noae has a handle on how many seats they've sold, and perhaps someone from EComStation time frame has rough seat numbers for their OS. Finally, it seems like OS/2 Warp (4.xx) had quite a few seats, and can benefit from Winflector solutions.
 
All told, my estimates are about 25k to 100k, but I have no way to nail it down ... it would possibly be useful to nail it down, and pass it to Winflector folks, to build up interest for an OS/2 client.

Certainly, there are still millions of 32-bit OS users out there (windows 7 and XP, linux distros, etc). If OS/2 is a better windows than most windows variants, some of these seats could possibly be brought into the fold?

How to get hold of any of those seats, other than by marketing? Perhaps with AN (you would think that they might participate, for their customers), with BlondGuy and others, and elsewhere. Build it, and they might come ...
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Internet / Re: Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 11:31:38 pm »
Another innovative use of Winflector, to solve OS/2 problems (no native modern browser, no 64-bit apps, etc) ... nice!

Please keep us posted on your efforts ... they are appreciated!

I use Winflector natively, everything on a single physical box, but perhaps your solution offers benefits to those in need of cloud versions of Winflector, Windows, etc. in an OS/2 environment.

Again, very innovative use of all the tools in the toolbox ...

Thanks for the support. I'm mulling it over. From the lack of replies so far i'm not sure the community is that interested. And it will be a big investment to start it which is why I was hoping people could help with securing "seats" in advance in exchange for the 6 free months.
But.. I might still proceed without that since I can also market it to linux and mac folks.
Thinking it over.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 11:24:32 pm »
Regarding:
"the 4GB/32Bit limit is pretty much a ticking time bomb"

I just meant coding a native web browser, even if achieved now, is going to run up against a memory limit eventually.
Whereas a virtual solution like winflector won't.
So I was saying I think the resources should go into another solution.

I've been in discussion with winflector about partnering with them to offer the hosted solution, and also talked to them about making a native client software for os/2, but it seems they are not interested:

"I'm afraid it's not so easy. To engage in software development for a niche environment, you need hardware, software, and application development tools. In addition, you need to learn a new, unfamiliar environment, and above all, you need to distract the team from the ongoing work of maintaining and developing the core versions of our software. It's probably safe to assume that a dedicated client for OS/2 won't be created, but you can try using the browser version, assuming there are modern versions of Opera, Chrome, or Firefox that work on OS/2."

And the last sentence is interesting.. as in the future it's possible the browser won't be modern enough for winflector to work.
Not sure about that though.
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Utilities / Re: Diff Tool
« Last post by galaxian on March 13, 2026, 11:19:47 pm »
Sorry to resuscitate this 10 year old thread back to life, but I figured this would be the most relevant thread instead of starting a new one.

I am using ArcaOS and wanted to get the GNU diff utility working for a long time but was seemingly unable to locate a yum program called diff. Found this thread and saw Alex's comment about diff which suggested the program is indeed available. I just wanted to point out to anyone looking for diff, the program is only 384k and available under the name diffutils.

You can install it with either the Arca Noae Package Manager or using this command line:

yum install diffutils

Finally, and works great. 8)
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Web applications / Re: Need memcached module for php7!
« Last post by Paul Smedley on March 13, 2026, 11:10:34 pm »
I'll try look at this, once Igor confirms he's looking for a module for PHP 7.4. Modules aren't generally compatible between PHP versions...

You'd also stand a higher chance of gaining my interest if you provided a pre-built library for libmemcache.
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Web applications / Re: Need memcached module for php7!
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 13, 2026, 09:56:39 pm »
Does it depend on having PHP installed? I'd guess so
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Web applications / Re: Need memcached module for php7!
« Last post by Igor on March 13, 2026, 08:43:40 pm »
Hi Pete,

Too bad!
I could probably port it myself, but I ran into problems setting up environment.
I'm guessing Paul known how to make it compile.
It's a shame he declined.
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Utilities / Re: SETTIME - which time server still supports port-13?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 13, 2026, 08:13:46 pm »
Well, there is the one that ships with ArcaOS, "The Clock Synchronization Utility" somewhere on your ISO. For command line, os2_ntpd, https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/time/NTPD_1-7b.zip
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