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Although Serenity's initial response to a suggestion of a thick client was negative, the response was positive enough from the community and from IBM to get things moving, and just a few months later the first eCS preview was shipped. On April 29, 2000, Serenity itself in conjunction with Kim Cheung of Touchvoice Systems created a discussion group for the purpose of discussing the OS/2 community's interest in a 'new Managed Client for eBusiness using components of WSeB' called eComStation to replace the one based on WoD, the idea was brought up to also create a new non-remote boot client - in effect an OEM version of the OS/2 client.

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The OS/2 software vendor Stardock made such a proposal to IBM in 1999, but it was not followed through by the company. But Serenity as an IBM business partner had done a similar thing with OS/2-based vertical applications like the Serenity Managed Client, a rapid deployment OS based on Workspace On-Demand, and Ecomstation Server, a managed server based on WSeB. John of Serenity Systems, that an OEM company could and should create its own client, using the existing OS/2 client with IBM enhancements and adding its own improvements where needed. IBM also continued updating the client and merged parts of it with the server, so it was proposed by Bob St. IBM released a final version of its server edition, IBM OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business or WSeB, internally called version 4.5. When it became clear that IBM would not release any new retail version of the OS/2 Warp client operating system after version 4 in 1996, users began to consider other alternatives. Ports of current Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird for browsing and email.A new client to access CIFS/ SMB (Windows-style) LAN resources (supporting both files and printers) based upon Samba.On-the-fly resizing of hard drive partitions.AHCI support (introduced in version 2.1).

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A 'universal' sound card driver based on ALSA.A new generic graphic card driver called Panorama.The results of many of these efforts are included in version 2 of eComStation among others:

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A number of small utilities and drivers developed by various third parties.ДЄs IBM began to wind down OS/2 development, Serenity and its partners began to take up the slack (through a combination of in-house, contract, and community/open source development efforts) in terms of keeping the operating system usable on current hardware.

Open source utilities from the Unix world.

System improvements developed by Serenity itself including a new installer, various user interface enhancements, system configuration changes, and a rapid deployment system based on Serenity Managed Client.

A number of features from OS/2 Warp 4 which IBM had omitted from the Convenience Package release, such as voice navigation and dictation,.

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Utilities and drivers licensed from third parties including scanner support and drivers for multiple serial cards, as well as enhanced storage drivers developed by Daniela Engert.

Value-added applications, including the Lotus Smartsuite office suite, IBM's Desktop On-call remote-control software, and more.

In addition, from the beginning it bundled a number of additional features and enhancements, including (but not limited to):

IBM-supplied updates that had previously only been offered to customers with maintenance contracts, such as UDF support and a new USB stack.Д®ComStation provided a retail channel for end users to obtain these updates.

These included an updated kernel, a 32-bit TCP/IP stack and associated networking utilities, a firewall, updated drivers and other system components, newer versions of Java, SciTech SNAP Graphics video support, and more.

Operating system features and enhancements that had been made available as updates but never offered as an install-time option.

Key among these were the JFS file system and the logical volume manager.

IBM-supplied updates of software and components that had shipped with the 1999 release of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, but had not been made available to users of the client version.

The latter had been made available only to holders of existing OS/2 support contracts it included the following new features (among others) compared to the final retail version of OS/2 (1996's OS/2 Warp version 4): Version 1 of eComStation, released in 2001, was based around the integrated OS/2 version 4.5 client Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp version 4, which was released by IBM in 2000.

4 A selection of FOSS software for eComStation.

1 Differences between eComStation and OS/2.

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