hithis is your arca os update for 2020 andinto 2021i'm louis rosenthal managing member ofarkanoid most of you probably know who iam already so i'll spare you the bioherewe have some exciting things brewing atarkanoid please don'tever mistake a lull in our blog post forany kind of lapse in energywe prefer to post news when we havesomething important to sayor to announce sometimes our work is ata much lower level than can be expressedin a couple of paragraphsso we have a natural tendency to holdoff just posting status updatesif you're curious about anything pleaseplease feel freeto drop us a note using our web contactformor our sales email address sales atarkanoway.comone of the staff will be happy to answeryour questionslet's first cover where we are now andthen where we're headed into 2021.in august we released arca os506 which will reallyreally be the last 5.0 releasewe did this specifically to address acouple minor issues we saw with the 505production runrather than try to release interim fixesto get the os updated or installed fresheasier to just provide an updated iso wealso knew that there would be severalmonths before the next releaseand the lesser of two evils was torelease one last 5.0 buildinstead of making everyone wait5.1 will be the next minor point releasefor arca oswe anticipate being able to release thissometimein middle to late middle 2021.it will go through our normalmaintenance release cycle 5.1.05.1.1 5.1.2 etcwe don't yet know how many of thosethere may be when the 5.1 cyclecompletes we will move to 5.2 and so onwe have no specific plans for what 5.2will contain or any subsequent releaseat this timethat is not to say and let me be clearabout thisthat we have any plans to stop producingnew arca os releases we firmly believethat we haveplenty more to update enhance and expandon the platformand we are ready willing and able tocontinue developmentlet's discuss some of the items weintend to include with the 5.1 releaseas always these are forward-lookingstatements that should not be taken as acommitment to releaseany of these however these are inour internal roadmap and will and wewill do ourutmost to get them into 5 into the 5.1releasethat also means that some of these maynot necessarily be in the 5.1.0 releasebut may make it into subsequent 5.1maintenance releaseswe have some installer fixes andenhancements planned and in progressas most of you know we started the arcos project knowing that we getone shot to make a first impression andthe installeris that first impression so we take itvery seriouslyand we continue to refine itin a first for the os2 platform weintend to provide support forinstall to and booting on systemswhich lack a traditional bios uefiunified extensible firmware interfaceis where all new hardware is headed andin a few yearsthere may be no new machines withtraditional biossupporting uefi ensures that arca os canremainviable into the future we also aredeveloping a solution for gptdisk layouts while arca os is currentlylimited to nbr disk layoutswhich is up to four partitions includingone extended partitionwith one or more logical volumes anddisks of up to two terabytes in capacitywe all know that this is no longerrealistic for today's storage devicesor necessarily compatible in multi-bootconfigurationsmultiple terabyte disks are the normtoday and it issilly to only be able to utilize twoterabyteson a six terabyte disk gpt support givesus a pathforward to utilizing these disks andeventuallyto creating and using partitions inexcess of two terabytes as wellwill have our first national languageversions of arc osgenerally available i'll talk aboutthese a little later in the sessionwe plan to include the new qt5 basedbrowserfalcon assuming it is ready and stablefor production useremember this is a bit wise effort andwe cannot speak for themhowever if the browser is available wewill include itwe also would like to include updatedbuilds of the mozilla applications aswell as some other tools and softwarecurrently arca os ships with a samba 3.6basedserver and a 4.11 based clientit is our plan to bring the server andclient into paritywhich should help resolve differences inthe solver configuration filebetween the two major versions and makethings more consistent across allconnectionsultimately we want to include new sabagui tools as wellcontinuing in the way of new driversnvme the successor to ahciis becoming more and more popular nvmewas specifically designed to takeadvantage of ssd technologywe currently have an nvme driver indevelopmentdt audio currently allows wino s2audio to be routed to uni off we want toalsoprovide a virtual sound blaster driverfor dos sessionsthis will round out our support forretro gaminguefi support now allows us to run dosand wino s2 on more systems than we havebeen able toin quite some time as well what'scurrently missing from the dawson winois to multimedia experienceis audio support for systems which lacka dos or wino s2 driverwhich today means most systems dt audiowith the virtual sound blaster driverwill fill that gapwe have more bundled apps to toss intothe iso including gotcha for quickscreen captures from the print screenbuttonnew calculators and new text editors wedon't want to bloat the distribution butwe do want it to be immediately usefulfor most usersso productivity apps are a must we mayadd a few smallgames as welland finally finally we will do away withthe monolithic selective installfacility from warp 4 and replace itwith small specific selective installerapps for new keyboards video driverswitchingand so forth if possiblewe would like to add new multi-mac w landrivers to the assortment of gen macwi-fidrivers we already have there should belittle overlap between the twotechnologies as wellthe new drivers should be focused onnewer chips which are not supported bygenmacthis work has not really begun inearnest as yet howeverbut it is still very much on our devicedriver roadmapeven more stuff initiallythe 5.1 release will include an upgradefacility to go from arca os 5.0 to 5.1in much the same way as the 5.0update facility moves between 5.10releasesit will not be necessary to reformat thesystem in order to upgrade to arcos 5.1 of course things like switchingfrom traditional bios to uefior from mbr to gpt will probablynot be supported by the upgrade facilityas these implysome radical changes to the hardwareconfigurationinstead the goal of the upgrade will beto take the hardware in its currentstateand just move the os to the latestversionlater we plan to introduce a migrationfacility to moveexisting ecs systems to arca os withoutthe need for a reformat in all of thedata and configuration recovery whichthat entailswe may extend this migration to includelater warp 4 and mcpservice levels likely the dividing linewould be systems with lvmdetails for the migration component havenot been worked out as yetand this is not likely to be in theinitial 5.1 releaseas we progress through the 5.1 releasecycleexpect more installer enhancements asi've said we get only one shot to make afirst impression and the better we canmake thatthe better the whole system looks andthe fewer installation complicationswe may have to address in the bugtrackerwe'd like to include true desktop searchto effectively locatetext and pdfs and other data filesrecalllooks like a good choice for this and weare looking at updating to the mostrecent releaseincluding the qt5 gui for it as storagespace continues to increasethe need for finding things quicklylikewise increaseswe view this as a necessary productivitytool for the platformrecall also utilizes plugins for variousdata file typesand it is not out of the realm ofpossibilitythat we will develop and include one ormore specific pluginsto search say lotus smart suitedocumentsopen office is already supported ibelievewe have some more locale fixes andupdates to do so these should beincluded along the line as we go throughthe 5.1 releasefinally let's talk briefly aboutnational language versionswe're already building betas of germandutchspanish french italian russiansimplified chinese traditional chinesejapanese and korean with more languagesplanned such as brazilian portuguesewe can add more based on demandso if you have need or betterknow of a respective enterprise or theneed for a number of licenses for agiven languageplease let us know in terms of licensingan arca os 5.1 license will be languageagnosticwhat this means is that a single arca oslicense may be used to installany arca os 5.1 nlvrelated to my last point as there are nonon-english arcos 5.0 releases upgrading to 5.1from 5.0 will be english onlyso if you have need for say german thiswill haveto be a fresh installthere are probably a hundred movingparts which i have left out of thisupdateso feel free to ask questions aboutspecific itemsand i'll do my best to answerhere we go let's check the questionslewis if there's any questionsand i don't see on youtube muchand[Music]no one has any questions about the uhthe upcomingum uh waffle maker that will beincluded with arc os 5.1no question about it i have one questionumabout the the upgrade tool fromwarp 4.5an income station to um to arc osis it really needed do you have demandfor thatwe really don't know at this point imeanum there are still a number ofecs installations floating around outthere i mean peoplecontinue to renew their drivers andsoftware subscriptionsand as we know those well-entrenchedinstallations have a whole bunch ofapplications already installed on themthe original installation disks forwhichmay or may not be easily foundso um itmakes it uh a bigger hassleto upgrade to to migrate i should sayover to arc oswhen there's all that stuff alreadyinstalled and configuredso that's the that's the ideaokay okay so here well let me let merun through it one more time andhopefully this will this will clarifythethe situation arc os 5.0 is english onlyso we handle updates from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1with no problem it's all the samelanguage we can update everything5.1 if someone wants toupgrade from 5.0 english to 5.1german there will not be anup an upgrade optionto upgrade and change languageso uh because there is no5.0 in germanthere can't be a 5.0 to 5.1upgrade in german so german would haveto be a fresh installnow once that's installed updating the5.1.1german to german will workbut you can't update prince you not onlycan you notupgrade from 5.00english to 5.1.0 german but you wouldn'tbe able toupdate 5.1.0 englishto 5.1.1 german so the language has tobe the same when you're doing anupdate or an upgradeyeah okay i get it because yeah iunderstand how os2 youis not like it cannot switch languageum once it is installed yeahyou have to install it like the the idon't know if you sell in germanyou cannot switch it to englishthere is another question uh well moreabout software if there are any plansforjava 1.8 andand if there is a possibility for thatin the futureokay well remember thatjava is um it's a net labs projectthat's beenhistorically run by bitwiseand i believe that thatthey do have a desire touh update to java 8 which would be java1.8we certainly would like to see that butwe have not made plans ourselves to getinvolved in thatin that development umobviously we realize that it's importanttoget something newer than java one sixwhich is really starting to show its ageat this pointokay i'm taking for more questions buti cannot find license question do i needsubscription for each of my arca oslicenses you need a subscription for anyarc oslicense that you wish to keepupdated and for which youmight need supportso if you buy five os licensesum andyou only need support for for one ofthose installations i don't knowwhy you would only need support for oneand would know that ahead of time butthen you would only need to have oneactive subscription but if you want toapply updates to all five of those youwould needa subs an active subscription for eachlicenselet's see what other questions have comein herethere is a question about running arc oson on macs that have intelcpu well there still has intel cpubut well to be honest i haven't triedanything of that rightwe don't test on that on that hardwareumit's i i have absolutely no ideahow's that that's that's an honestanswerany other road map questions here aboutwhat to expect in 5.1i guess that one of the morerespected drivers for the the communityare the wi-fi drivers andwell it says wellit's on the road map that i don't knowif there's any problemslet me let me just address for a momentwhat our logic is behind prioritizingone device driver over another devicedriverum usb3 for a long time was at the top of thepriority listas more and more machines were comingout with usb3 only and we were running into issueswhere people couldn't even connect amouse and keyboard to install theoperating systemso that was at the top of the list nowwe've got usb 3support working xhci support workingand that's out of the way in terms ofgetting it off the ground and getting itgetting it functionalso then the next question is well uhwe had planned a new audio driver we hadplannedwi-fi drivers andso we were really looking atprioritizing the wi-fi drivers nextand then the nvme issue cropped upbecause more and more systems areshipping with nvme controllersinstead of ahci controllerswell if you can't get the machine to ifyou can't install the softwareon on the machine the operating systemon the machinenot much else matters so nvmegot jumped to the top of theof the the stack once that'sdone and out of the way and working ithink thatthat wi-fi drivers are pretty close tonext in line there umbut uh it's all a matter ofwhat do we need to get the machinebooted and runningfirst then what do we need to connect toother thingsand then what do we need tomake the system more uh user-friendly soaudiokeeps getting pushed farther down thestack and now of course thatthat paul has umgotten back into working on uni oddthat's sort of taken a lot of thepressure off in terms of the new audiodriver sothat's moved much farther down the stacksothat's kind of the way different thingsend upahead of other things in the devicedriver roadmapand everything of course is subject tochange like nvmesort of got pushed at to the top of thestackjust because that's the way we saw thethe directionof new hardware umlikewise obviously the uh the uefi andgpt supporthas bubbled up to one to the surfaceto become more more important for usbut wi-fi is still on the list we're notgiving up ondeveloping new wi-fi drivers umwe just have to get to that pointokay there is another question if therewill bea server-based version of araca oslike the old times we that there is tobe umwarp server for re-business yeahum we don't haveplans for that right now in in ourroad map but if umif the opportunity were to arisefor instance one of the things on mypersonal wish listis um an sas driverfor uh serial attached storageum that's really a server technologywe might look at doing something like aserver editionthat would that would have such a driveruh in itsuch a driver set but at this pointthat we have no specific plans to comeout witha a separate server editionnow we may let me just follow on to thatwe may uh uhend up with something like a tableteditionif we find that we're able to run onmoreum more tabletsthat are available unfortunately most ofthese devices are coming outwith arm chips in them and we don'tsupport thethe arm processors so we would have toseea change in the tablet market to supportintel processors and tablets and then wemightend up with something like a tabletedition um somore additions are possible we don'thave anything planned right nowyeah we need more tablets with intelchipsetsor to change the kernel which is veryhard rightexactly just just a little thing likere-engineering the kernelthere is another question if there willbe a listof motherboards uh tested listfor our you cows we addnew items to the uh known workinglist as we go along i guess we should uhwe should spend a little more timesurveying our um our customersto get some more feedback on thosethings umi think really it's it's a matter of usuhspending a little more time keeping itkeeping the list currenti know that david routinelyuh updates that list as he isum working on different things anduh and keeps up with it i was looking atit not too long ago myself and irealized thati should probably add a couple thingsthere soi'll i'll put that in my to-do listalso on os2 world on the os2 world wikii have also list of the main boards thatpeople reports on theon the forum is not official but it canbe also aa a good help for checking outthe experience with different membersi see there's a question about will doswino s2 support be as good as dosbox forgamesideally it will be better than dosboxfor gamesnow since i haven't run dosboxum you know in quite a while i couldn'ti couldn't tell youuh i couldn't a b that but i will saythatin uefi modeum dawson and wino s2run some things fabulouslyand once we get the audio supportworking for those sessions uh it will bejust like the old days of running dawsonwino s2 applicationson systems that had supported audiohardwareuh it's very smooth the dawson window s2supportin uefi mode is really very smoothi think that the only thing missing thatis on the roadmapis the to have the dt audio with a songblaster likeemulation on the on the spiritualsection and with that it will be greatfor gamingum for retro gaming it will be great tohave thatthat driver and welland finish the thing yeah so nathan isaskingwould uh the os support raid drives oradd-in cardsthat uh that handle raid driveswe do handle some um someraid cards now some raid uhhardware now um butnot uh not saturateum and we much as i would like to seethat raid supportuh it's on our our list but it's wellit's down there with the with my wishlist item for the sasdriverany other questions for uh5.1 specificallyno one's got any questions about gptsupport in 5.1and what that means forfor disk drives going forwardwell that's very interesting i don'tknow if you can talk about thatum i found it interesting because i liketosometimes to have dual boot on a machineandum and i didn't have to uh erasecompletely the other operating systemlike windowsto run to run jpt to removegpt and prove a master boot record idon't know if it's going to be easierto have dual boot machines with thatwell the the idea is that once we haveour initial gpt support we'll be able touh create a partition for ourselves onthethe disk and umand install to that to that partitionon on a gpt uhstyle disk and boot from it with noproblem so you'd be able to multi bootbetween othergpt aware operating systemsum that's the in the initialsupport and that would give us you wouldbe able to createmultiple uh virtualdrives umwhen i say virtual drives each gptpartition becomes a drive to usso each gpt partition may be up to twoterabytes in sizeum so you could create multipletwo terabyte drives onone very very largesix eight ten terabyte gptdisk and we would be able to to bootfrom theuh the uh installation onon that it'll be some timeafter that that we actually uhwork out support for larger than twoterabytevirtual disks two to larger than twoterabyte partitionsbut it's it's it's in the planit's in the plan just asgeneral culture which drivershould we have to blame for not havingtwoterabytes partition more than twoterabytes partition supportshould should a jfs should be updated orany other driversit's not it's not the file system driverthat's that's at fault it'smuch lower level than than that soum the jfs file system driver itselfshould be able to support muchlarger uh volumes than two terabytesuh but other things uh lvmitself there's a wholelist of things that need to beaddressed in order to support partitionslarger than two terabytesthat's a little out of my comfort zone ii don't i don't do thatthat type of development so umbut it's suffice it to say thatthat's a longer range goal for for ourgpt supportthan just being able to create uhpartitions of two terabytes and andinstall to thoseplans for a 64-bit arc os noneabsolutely not not only would we need a64-bitkernel for the operating systembut then all of the applications that werunare all still stuck at 32 bits soit wouldn't really do us a lot of goodwithoutre-engineering a whole bunch ofcurrently working applicationsfor 64 bits so i don't seea 64-bit arc os asever happening at this point so long asprocessors continue to support running32-bit codethere is another question that says wellrephrasing the question it saysis there any concern about the possiblesecurity threats in the futureumwell remember that the way our licenseworks with ibmwe have the right to reverse engineerparts of the operating system where wedon't have source codein order to provide binary patches sowe're not overly concerned about aboutthat clearlyum it was something we discussed in somedetailduring the the whole heartbleed incidentbut uh ultimatelyum we we found thatum we were fairly fairly well insulatedbut you know we we may have we may haveadditional kernel patching to doto deal with things as they as theyarise we'll have to seeyeah i don't see any more questions justjust if you live near to a motorcycleshopwe support lbn like assignment of driveletters for gptyes absolutely absolutely umwe're arc os is very closely tied to lvmor vice versa so any gpt support weprovide has to beit has to be supported uh by lvmso the tools that we that we haveneed to make lvm comfortable running inthat environmentuh nathan you said earlier my gptsupport comes from a netgear nas boxi would like to do it locally but osudoesn't support raid well yeah that'sthere's the raid the raid thing um and ii agree not having modern raid supportisa bit of a handicap for us umit's on the list so we'll see when wewhen we get therejust one little thing on on your roadmappresentation therethere was uh there was mention thatyou're going to support the new browseror include falconit seems like according to the events ofwrestling morning is not going to befalcon rightright whatever browser it is whateverqt5 browser it isif it is ga readythen we will we will include that in inarcos 5.1 and when i say includedi don't mean that we're going to rip themozilla applications out it would bean additional browser option and wewould probably install that as thedefault browserand leave firefox as a secondary browserthat people could install for themselvesas wellanything elseno i don't have any more questions hereokayall right thanks you betso long again everyone okay byebye