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Stories · 6

  1. Ten Years of BeOS

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the be-all-that-you-can-be dept. · 264 comments
    Tracker writes "BeOS was released to developers officially for the first time ten years ago. OSNews has a charming write-up about the BeOS, some interesting historical events since 1994, and a few anecdotes as well. Today, BeOS still lives on with projects like the freeware BeOS Max (built upon BeOS 5 PE), the open source re-implementation from scratch OpenBeOS and YellowTAB's commercial Zeta OS (based on unreleased and updated code of what would have been 'BeOS 6' if Be wasn't purchased by Palm in 2001)."

  2. Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the because-we-can dept. · 167 comments
    Gentu writes "Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps, the project leader of OpenBeOS, the open source re-implementation of the BeOS. Read here for the english version of the interview where Michael is discussing the roots of the project, the current status, the roadmap, the choice of the MIT license, its relationship to YellowTAB's Zeta and the other efforts to resurrect BeOS, BeUnited and the Sun Java port and more."

  3. OpenBFS Reaches Beta

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the sounds-groovy dept. · 37 comments
    Bruno G. Albuquerque writes "The OpenBFS Team (part of the OpenBeOS project that aims to recreate BeOS from scratch) has moved the project status to early beta. This means OpenBFS is now a 100% complete (but barely tested) replacement for the original Be File System (BFS). It is a 64 bit, multithreaded and journaled file system that supports unlimited number os extended attributes and has support some database-like functions (like ultra-fast searches based on an index). OpenBFS is written in C++ and is licensed under the MIT license."

  4. OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the always-room-for-more dept. · 258 comments
    DeltaSigma writes: "Michael Phipps, of the OpenBeos team, recently hosted a public Q&A Session where many of the public musings over a completely new open source operating system have been addressed. The answer to all the 'is there room in the market?' questions was answered in a way: 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ..."

  5. OpenBeOS Gets Binary-Compatible Network Stack

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the beingness-not-nothing dept. · 12 comments
    eexlebots writes: "While there is much yet to be done, the OpenBeOS team (whose goal is to rebuild the BeOS part by part, server by server, with source AND binary compatibility) have been testing an early build of a binary-compatible replacement for the much-maligned net_server. Netpositive (the default BeOS browser) can now fetch web pages from a local server using the new stack. While the new stack is still dangerously buggy, it's a huge step forward for the OpenBeOS team. For the official scoop, check out the OpenBeOS website, as well as this screenshot."

  6. An Open Source Direct3D 8.0 Wrapper for Open GL

    Tech · Graphics · · posted by timothy · from the rosetta-stone dept. · 246 comments
    Jason writes: "RealTech-VR, creators of the V3X 3D engine, also developed a Direct3D-to-OpenGL wrapper and they have now open sourced their work. They are seeking for more hackers to help porting the wrapper to Linux and MacOS. A lot of the functionality of Direct3D is already ported but it still needs quite some work. Get the scoop at OSNews."