The first beta was released on 21 December , with the first self-styled 'release candidate' being announced on 18 June ; the final GA release was not available until May The biggest change in eComStation 2. The benefits of ACPI included support for modern hardware, including advanced power-management features, as well as support for IRQs above Consequently, starting with eComStation 2. The other major feature introduced in version 2. Previous versions of JFS had only been usable on non-bootable data partitions.
The eComStation pricing model was revamped significantly with version 2. This edition had a lower recommended retail price than previous versions of eComStation; however, one customer was limited to five purchases.
The Business Edition was targeted at commercial customers, with no limit on the number of purchases. Software-wise, the two products were identical; only the license terms differed, as noted above. Both editions of eComStation 2. The Application Pack which had been available for previous versions was discontinued.
EComStation 2. The first is support for disk controllers, via a newly developed device driver. The second is the replacement of the old IBM Boot Manager with the open-source Air-Boot software, which does not require a primary partition and is therefore easier to install on disks with pre-existing operating systems.
As of version 2. A preview release of a Japanese NLV is also available to certain customers. With this change however, all of the same user interface interactions are preserved, such as the 'right-click and drag' trick to create aliases of files on the desktop, the always present 'menu bar' and of course resource forks.
It's important to point out that support for older bit Windows code can actually be a boon for businesses stuck with legacy software they don't wish to rewrite. A huge benefit to this arrangement is that you can run all your apps within several Win16 instances, such that if one app crashes, it won't bring down the other apps, since they are appropriately sandboxed.
Compared to previous releases of eComStation, I have had much more of my hardware supported out of the box, thanks to the major improvements made to ACPI, multi-core processor, USB, sound, and network card support. With the improved networking stack, the support for the modern Web couldn't be any better for this breed of operating system.
What this means is that you can expect a relatively modern web experience while taking advantage of browser codebase consistency. Despite only having version 10 of Firefox at this time, it is anticipated that Mozilla Even Adobe's latest version of Flash 11 is available and bundled on the install disc, so you can have a fuller Web-surfing experience.
As recently as version 2. Just a fair warning though, the Win16 mode on eComStation doesn't take too kindly to the newer JFS and partitions sizes past two gigabytes.
Want to find software to download and install? On the other hand, newcomers to eComStation might want to give the eCoMarket a spin. As of this writing, there aren't too many applications listed yet, but that number will continue to grow and look healthier by launch. Finally, despite being tagged as a beta release, I have suffered nary a lockup or a crash on my test installation.
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