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webOS Talk at VCF East

The Vintage Computing Federation hold a number of events. This year’s VCF East festival will be of interest to fans of webOS phones, tablets and other computing devices of the past.

The festival is held at the InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, New Jersey, 07719 and runs over three days from the 12th to 14th of April. The festival includes three elements:

For readers of this blog, representation of webOS devices will be in two of those areas. Jon W of the webOS Archive is attending over the weekend and will give a 50 minute talk at 900am on Saturday the 13th. The consignment shop will have a small selection of webOS devices for those who are interested.

So if you are in the area, why not go along?

If you can’t make it, you can follow along via the VCF video channel and TouchPads are available remotely at Tindie

Discussion is at the VCF East forum thread. You can read more about the InfoAge museum.

Picture Credit: Apc106, Wikimedia Commons.

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LuneOS February Stable release: Eiskaffee

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Sooo that was a really long time since a release, but webOS Ports are still around and active as ever!

We have continued making updates and producing testing images. But a lot happened that resulted in us not putting out a proper release out in the past few years.

Those who have stayed in touch with the community will know there has been some turmoil with the closure of the webOS Nation forums last year. Things stabilised over the last year as people converged around the webOS Archive and made plans on the associated Discord server. Much of the old information from webOS Nation was preserved thanks to the internet archive and can still be accessed, if imperfectly. We have now set up a new community forum that largely replicates the old layout and is ready for fresh content.

If you are eager to find out what we’ve been working on and to try out the new release, read on…

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LuneOS: Help Wanted 2024

The webOS community may be a bit smaller these days but it’s no less devoted to the platform. WebOS Ports is a small team of developers. As you can imagine, it is a few people to maintain a full OS that consists of thousands of components. Things are starting to come together for LuneOS, with the current major rebase and stable release. But we still need your help.

As nice as it is to have some additional folk contributing, developing, and working on issues, we still need more developers to get involved to make this community project really take off.

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Sunset of the webOS Nation Forums

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(UPDATE: The webOS Nation disappeared from the web on Friday the 13th, 2023)

It appears Future Publishing US have decided to “Sunset” the WebOS Nation forums. This term could mean anything from ceasing product support, through archiving to full closure. Whatever the term means in this case, the process is due to begin in early January.

pivotCE was originally created some years ago to fill the gap in webOS news when webOSNation.com stopped publishing stories, but the forums continued until this day. Many of pivotCE’s stories were originally sourced from the forum. Both parts of webOS Nation contain a wealth of data and history about the webOS project and it’s successors. It’s hoped that this information can be preserved in some way.

If you have a comment or can offer help, head over to the thread.

You may want to consider joining the discord instance at the webOS Archive.

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LuneOS October Stable release: Eggnog Latte

Happy Halloween! The long wait is finally over #LuneOS and #webOS fans! We’re back with a new release called “Eggnog Latte” which is a milestone in terms of developments and paves the way forward!

So you’re wondering what we’ve been up to since our previous stable release at the end of last year?

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