Hallo Marc!

23.12.2018 16:11, Marc Lewis schrieb an Sean Dennis:

 ML> Sean, I too would like to do an upgrade, but I question what will
 ML> happen to my present set-up when I start the upgrade.  Will the new
 ML> ArcaOS preserve my old directory structure etc.?  Never have gotten a
 ML> clear answer as to what happens during the new OS install process.
ArcaOS does have the current OS/2 smp kernel 4.52. A update is not possible,
because most of the programms are using the unixroot environment. Ecomstation
had an option to use the unixenvironment, but arcaos does need this.

Well, there is no need to update, because arcaos does use the same smp-kernal
than ecomstation 2 does. If you adopt your unixenvironment, and install all
the stuff from rpm.netlabs.org you've got the same programs running.

Just to explain, a UnixEnvironment is defined by some rexx scripts. To find
you what you need, just take a look inside the rpm from netlabs.org. Hint:
7zip does extract these rpm's like a charm.

On my Ecomstation 2.1 I've got several unixroot-environments. Some for
mozilla, some for gcc3, gcc4, gcc6 and also gcc8.1.0. Because of this, I can
compile most of the unix-programms for os/2. Like I did with grep/sed/wget and
so on.

I would only update to ArcaOS immediately if they adopt/port a tcp/ipv6 stack.
All other stuff from then is available on netlabs or github. (If you are able
to compile these programms of your own, like I do.)

 ML> Best regards,
 ML> Marc
Bye/2 Torsten

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