OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress

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 ..."

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[Anonymous Coward]

FP Mofos

FYI: the CLIT is no more.

[Anonymous Coward]

The CUNT has been circumcized by slashdot moderators according to fundamentalist islamic traditions.

Er.. no

[brunes69]

Accomodate other readers eh... lets see... what accomodates more people. A plain text document that can be read by pretty much every computer capable of accessing the Internet, or a proprietary binary format that is only viewable by Windows AOHell users... hrmmm.... tough choice.

Re:A Meta-Question

[cjpez]

Is there a syntax file for IRC logs for vim? Just curious . . .

Heil Michael Sims, heil dem Vaterland!

[Sims Youth]

Vorwärts! Vorwärts! Schmettern die hellen Fanfaren.
Vorwärts! Vorwärts! Jugend kennt keine Gefahren.
Slashdot, du wirst leuchtend stehn,
mögen wir auch untergehn.

Vorwärts! Vorwärts! Schmettern die hellen Fanfaren.
Vorwärts! Vorwärts! Jugend kennt keine Gefahren.
Ist das Ziel auch noch so hoch,
Jugend zwingt es, doch!

Unsre Linux es brechen uns voran..
In die Zukunft ziehen wir Mann für Mann.
Wir moderieren für Michael durch Nacht und durch not
Mit der betriebssystem für Freiheit und Brot.

Unsre Linux es brechen uns voran.
Unsre Linux ist die neue Zeit.
Und Linux führt uns in die ewigkeit!
Ja, Linux ist mehr als der Tod!

Jugend! Jugend! Wir sind die Zukunft Arschspielwaren.
Jugend! Jugend! Träger der kommenden Taten.
Ja, durch unsre Fäuste fällt,
wer sich uns entgegenstellt.

Jugend! Jugend! Wir sind die Zukunft Arschspielwaren.
Jugend! Jugend! Träger der kommenden Taten.
Führer, wir gehören dir,
wir kameraden dir!

Unsre Linux es brechen uns voran.
In die Zukunft ziehen wir Mann für Mann.
Wir moderieren für Michael durch Nacht und durch not
Mit der betriebssystem der Jugend für Freiheit und Brot.

Unsre Linux es brechen uns voran.
Unsre Linux ist die neue Zeit.
Und Linux führt uns in die ewigkeit!
Ja, Linux ist mehr als der Tod!

Re:Open Source Development on Sourceforge: HOW-TO

[dmarien]

a'ite, that was probably the funniest thing I have ever read on slashdot. i remember somwhere on this friggin' site ppl were bashing trolls (it might have been in the faq), anyway - a question was posed "why don't you just ban/block known trolls?", the response was something (quite awfully paraphrased) like 'well, in the beginining trolls were some of the most intelligent, funny, posts, and now the meaning has been taken out of context... since then I have been browsing with a threshold of 0. now I know why. gems like this are completely hillarious, and poke fun at our very nature... like c'mon folks -- if this gets a negative score i'll be very upset. let's look in the mirror, smell the coffee (since it's so close, and grow the hell up... there's such a thing as an anti troll i believe... most of the users on this site are anti-trolls, which are just as bad. MOD PARENT UP BECAUSE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN WEEKS!

kthxbye

Re:hoo ha

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll?

Are you fucking high?

Offtopic, idiot.

Re:Wired: OpenBeOS founder dead by suicide

[Mr.Sharpy]

OMG, I thought that was one of those "Steven King, Dead at 66" type of messages with a link to goatse.cx. But no, it's true! Although, I didn't see the part about the drano.

Sure there is room, plenty of room..

[3seas]

Seems to me that the upcomming GNU Hurd of servers, which
gives the users more freedom in user space while maintaining
networking security, opens up a whole new door of user interface
options, including "Smart User Interfaces"

The key to this is how the Hurd using IPC (inner process communication)
and how this can be tapped into in the user space and network
functionality so as to hook a "Smart User Interface" up.

Smart User interface = along the lines of the difference between a dumb
terminal and a smart terminal, where the Smart User Interface is it's own
Operating System yet able to use the resources and security of the Hurd
for number crunching functionality and external firewalled access.

I think even a project like the OSS AMIGA like project AROS would be
very useful here as user accessible IPC had pretty much been made a
standard on the Amiga - and follows in the AROS project

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[knco]

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