Software news
Eirik Overby has written The Wall, a firewall for OS/2 Warp, requiring TCP/IP v4.1. A beta version can be downloaded from http://www.mo.himolde.no/~ltning/os2/.
Bjoern Andersson has released a new revision of Kon (v1.15 rev. 1080), his PM text editor. Kon is available as shareware from http://www.bmtmicro.com/kon/. This revision introduces multi-lingual support, currently available in English, German, French (partly) and Swedish. Contact the author if you're interested in translating Kon to your language.
Leif-Erik Larsen has released a new beta version of his Norton Commander clone, Larsen Commander, version 0.98. There are a great deal of changes to the program, too many to list here. Go to the Larsen Commander home page for more information: http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html.
OS/2 Netlabs of Switzerland has taken over the OS/2 port of Opera ("Project Magic"), the Internet browser by Norway-based company Opera Software. The port will be based the OS/2 Netlabs' Project Odin which has participation by a few Scandinavians (besides "Odin" is the name of the Scandinavian god of wisdom and knowledge :-) ). Read about the current status on Opera Software's Project Magic homepage ( http://www.operasoftware.com/alt_os.html) and visit OS/2 Netlabs' Project Odin homepage http://www.netlabs.org/odin/.