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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Is os2world under DDoS attack or something?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 10:37:27 am »
I feel like the forum is down these days as much as it's up.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Andi B. on March 13, 2026, 10:23:59 am »
Why do you think about winflector? Isn't this another remote access software where the real program runs on another hardware on another OS and only the screen output is mirrored to your machine?

You can do such thing easily with our RDP port. Setup a Linux machine, install xrdp/xvnc and connect to it from your ArcaOS desktop. Either freerdp (much preferred) or vncclient. Works quite good. Probably will work the same with a remote windoze machine. But no need bothering with that crap.

Not sure why you consider it crap honestly. It might not be your preference but it's still a good product.
It has several advantages. Instead of having to login to the whole server as you do with RDP - you can login to just a single app automatically in it's own application window, so it feels like a real application.
It's also much faster and optimized for speed then a standard RDP console.
And if you offered it as a hosted service to others it has better security controls.
But you seem to feel strongly about it :).

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, mind English is not my mother tongue, but with crap above I meant windoze. Can't comment on winflector. But the mentioned OS I know long enough and good enough and know how it evolves. So I've a lot of arguments why I know it's crap. At least this days and for serious computer users. But I've already wasted too much time in my life with this OS.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 09:21:01 am »
Why do you think about winflector? Isn't this another remote access software where the real program runs on another hardware on another OS and only the screen output is mirrored to your machine?

You can do such thing easily with our RDP port. Setup a Linux machine, install xrdp/xvnc and connect to it from your ArcaOS desktop. Either freerdp (much preferred) or vncclient. Works quite good. Probably will work the same with a remote windoze machine. But no need bothering with that crap.

Not sure why you consider it crap honestly. It might not be your preference but it's still a good product.
It has several advantages. Instead of having to login to the whole server as you do with RDP - you can login to just a single app automatically in it's own application window, so it feels like a real application.
It's also much faster and optimized for speed then a standard RDP console.
And if you offered it as a hosted service to others it has better security controls.
But you seem to feel strongly about it :).
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Internet / Re: DASH (Dooble Awesome Shell)
« Last post by Andi B. on March 13, 2026, 09:05:46 am »
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I suspect the stock VAL does not take into account the need to run ported nix software.

Yes, 2560 is good here. Anything higher leads to a reboot when trying to run AOO and Seamonkey - or Dooble - at the same time.


Regards

Pete
I think that's the reason it is set that low after installation. It simply does not work on many machines with high values. I've one here which can't run with >2048. Although quite standard and not very new Asustek mainboard. Unfortunately with 2048 it's unusable for me as a workhorse :-(.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Andi B. on March 13, 2026, 09:00:43 am »
Why do you think about winflector? Isn't this another remote access software where the real program runs on another hardware on another OS and only the screen output is mirrored to your machine?

You can do such thing easily with our RDP port. Setup a Linux machine, install xrdp/xvnc and connect to it from your ArcaOS desktop. Either freerdp (much preferred) or vncclient. Works quite good. Probably will work the same with a remote windoze machine. But no need bothering with that crap.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 07:15:10 am »
It seems to me from what you guys have all said (that are more knowledgeable than me) that the 4GB/32Bit limit is pretty much a ticking time bomb.

So I'm kind of thinking now it's a waste of resources to try to port any browser at this point since it will be doomed to fail eventually anyways. (And I don't think ArcaOS being made 64bit is an option? Could be wrong)

So i've come over to the side that maybe another solution like winflector or some other form of RDS solution might really be the only future - since that breaks away from the 32bit limitations by thinking out of the box.

Like, for example, maybe providing funding to winflector for them to make a native client app so people can get the full functionality of winflector (if they could be convinced there is enough interests from the os/2 community). That would be a lot more productive since it would actually solve the problem of breaking the 64bit barrier through virtualization.

One question I was wondering about though: So if you are using a solution like winflector, which is letting you virtualize a 64 bit browser while you are still on a 32bit/4gb machine - Does the fact that your machine is 32 bit and limited in ram effect the performance of the virtualized session?
I haven't had a chance to fully test it myself yet.
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Internet / Re: Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 12:40:51 am »
I'm getting ahead of myself but just realized my site only has USA as a country currently. But you can just put USA as the country and leave the actually country in the comments.. or send a PayPal to superservice@syncpedia.com if interested
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Internet / Re: Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 13, 2026, 12:07:46 am »
Actually .thinking about it more..it will include 6 months free hosting so it's a clear value to sign up early. Haven't had a chance to update the site yet but consider that the deal.

Let me know your thoughts.
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Internet / Re: DASH (Dooble Awesome Shell)
« Last post by Pete on March 12, 2026, 11:58:41 pm »
Hi Dave

It depends on the computer but personally I think the stock VAL value is way to low. You should be able to raise it until it hits PCI space. Here, my computer is stable with 2944 and crashy with 3072. 2560 should be good for most.


I suspect the stock VAL does not take into account the need to run ported nix software.

Yes, 2560 is good here. Anything higher leads to a reboot when trying to run AOO and Seamonkey - or Dooble - at the same time.


Regards

Pete
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Internet / Interested in a remote winflector/ web browser hosting service?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 12, 2026, 11:43:23 pm »
So I had a crazy idea of renting a windows dedicated server to serve as a winflector server to try to solve the web browser problem.
The advantage of that is you can run arcaos natively then and still access the modern browsers via our remote winflector server.
(instead of running os/2 in virtualbox and using your own copy of windows).
Also people that don't want a copy of windows for themselves wouldn't have to provide it since we would be providing the windows environment for you, and it would also be easy and convenient to use for anyone that is interested.

I was thinking to cost would be in the $13-$15 a month range - haven't had a chance to nail that down yet. Unfortunately dedicated servers for windows are pricy so i'm not looking to make much from it.

Anyways, anyone interested or is this a dead end idea?
If you are interested i've setup a funding page to secure your seat, so we can know how many people are committed to it and we know how many licenses to buy. It would include 3 months of free service to anyone that signs up.
https://www.syncpedia.com/winflector/112-reserve-your-seat-for-os-2-winflector-hosting.html

The total cost would come to $47.46 per seat currently.

Also, in addition to web browsers we could install a bunch of other windows software like office suites, email cliensts, ftp clients etc possibly.

Anyways, let me know what you think!






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