Preloaded Computer Software

Each Blonde Guy ArcaOS preloaded computer comes with a standard load of software. This page lists what is in the current pre-load. This list is updated over time to incorporate new essential OS/2 software as well as to keep up to date versions of existing software. When you receive your ArcaOS preloaded computer, you will have Blonde Guy's best installation of the latest OS/2 software.

Software

• Operating system: ArcaOS 5.0.6
• Suntan Special is included with each computer. All applications that are pre-installed by Blonde Guy can be kept up to date using Suntan Special.
• Apache OpenOffice is installed. OpenOffice has good compatibility with Microsoft Office documents.
• The Tabbed PDF Viewer and Lucide are installed to provide viewing of PDF files.
• Computer maintenance programs include Suntan Special, a trial version of DFSee, Sysbench to measure the speed of the computer, PCI to scan the system hardware and SystemInfo to view the entire computer configuration.
• RPM/YUM, a software configuration framework, is installed. Suntan Special acts as a layer over RPM/YUM to replace the detailed knowledge of how to install and configure software using YUM with pre-packaged application installations.
• The FAT32 file system is installed.
• Firefox and Seamonkey web browsers are installed. For the Mozilla family browsers, the Flash plugin is installed, but off by default. Qupzilla web browser, based on Qt and the Apple Web Kit is also installed.
• Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and PMMail are installed to provide a choice of e-mail client program.
• Java (OpenJDK 6.00) is installed.
• VLC media player is installed to play back most video file types and some commercial DVDs.
• DVDTools is installed to provide DVD and CD writing.
• PM123 music players are provided to support music needs. The CD Player is correctly configured to play music CDs. Generic MP3 players that connect via USB are supported.
• Cameraderie provides support for digital cameras.
• I use rsync, which is a mirroring program, to keep several copies of my data drive. The rsync program copies only files that have changed, added or removed when it updates a copy of the data drive.
• 4os2 provides an alternative to the OS/2 command prompt with more features.
• A number of fonts are added. Thanks to Alex Taylor for developing some OS/2 specific fonts. Liberation and Deja Vu fonts are also added to support some programs.
• Also asscoedit, vncserver, PMWipe are installed.
• WebSee webcam software is installed. This gives limited webcam support for webcam if one is installed, or for USB webcam that you may plug in.
• HelpDesk client software by OS/2 VOICE is installed to permit remote administration tasks to be performed by Blonde Guy. Access to the computer is controlled by the user, not by Blonde Guy.

Suntan Special

I use Suntan Special to install the software on all Blonde Guy computers. Suntan Special software can be used to install all updates to the system and its applications and to install additional applications. When newer versions of software are released, Suntan Special can keep your Blonde Guy computer up to date.

DFSee

DFSee is a generic disk, partition and filesystem utility for maintenance and data-recovery. It supports partition tables (FDISK, LVM), FAT, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, and partly JFS, EXT2/3 or REISER filesystems. DFSee is commercial software which requires a license key for continued use.