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beunited.org is an international, non-profit organization working to define and promote open specifications for the delivery of the Open Standards BeOS-compatible Operating System (OSBOS) platform for personal computers in consumer and business environments. The mission of beunited.org is to proliferate these open specifications through the sponsorship of technology, market, user education, and support programs throughout the world.
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Haiku GameKit Team Reports Feature Complete
Posted: beunited.org - Friday July 09 2004 - 08:16
In an amazing surprise the Haiku OSBOS project Game Kit team has reported that they have a feature complete version of the Game Kit done. Jack Burton has reported on the Haiku discussion forum that BDirectWindow and BScreenWindow are 100% complete and working. Using their Game Kit and the Haiku Media Kit they have been able to run ChronoTrigger and Terranigma using the SNES emulator compiled agains their libgame.so library.
» See screenshot of ChronoTrigger running under Haiku Game Kit
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JavaShare and Clue Donated to Developer Portal
Posted: beunited.org - Monday July 05 2004 - 14:51
Bryan Varner, author of JavaShare the Java version of BeShare, and Jeff Braun, author of the innovative message debugging tool Clue, have kindly donated their source code to the beunited.org developer portal set of projects. The source code can be downloaded via cvs using anonymous access. beunited.org thanks Bryan and Jeff for their kind contributions and to the goal of generating more interest in BeOS software development.
» Go to the Developer Portal page here.
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BeFree News
Posted: beunited.org - Monday July 05 2004 - 07:19
The BeFree Project has released a new version of their web site recently with improved navigation and a fresh new look. BeFree also announced that they have now completed version 0.1.10 of their Neptune API. Neptune is the name of BeFree's user and programming interface designed to run on Linux yet be compatible with the BeOS API while being based on OpenTracker with SVG support.
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Cosmoe News
Posted: beunited.org - Monday July 05 2004 - 07:13
From the Cosmoe Project...
Two new releases are in progress. The first, to be called 0.7.1, is a back-port of some of the key 0.8 advances such as the new kernel kit, onto the stable, working GUI system using the original appserver. This is very nearly complete. The second is the ongoing 0.8 release which incorporates the Haiku appserver. Since Haiku has started the process of becoming self-hosting, they are finding all of the problems that have bugged me for months but never had time to fix, so there should be some furious syncing with them as they sort things out. That's great for Cosmoe as we can take their improvements right into Cosmoe will little or no changes. Stay tuned on the Cosmoe list for new releases and updates.
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New Director of Standards
Posted: beunited.org - Wednesday June 23 2004 - 17:56
The Standards Portal now has a new leader, Jace Cavacini, as Director of Standards at beunited.org. The former Director, John Tegen, has been a great help to our cause - and wrote most of the RFCs to date - and is now working hard building his company, OmicronSoft. We wish him nothing but success. Jace is no stranger to Standards as he has been acting secretary for a year and has been heading the effort to create the Human Interface Guidlines RFC for OSBOS. Now in the role of Director he will guide the RFC process to new heights. Jace can be reached at jcavacini at beunited.org.
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Haiku Inc. Clarification
Posted: beunited.org - Sunday June 20 2004 - 08:53
Haiku Inc. is the name used to register the incorporation of the Haiku-OS non-profit organization in the state if New York, USA. beunited.org and Haiku Inc. have agreed to partner to use Haiku-OS, or simply Haiku, as a reference platform for OSBOS standards.
Haiku will be used as the reference platform for OSBOS and OSBOS distributions because it is open, the most complete, and compatible OSBOS project today to represent the OSBOS standards. All other OSBOS project are fully supported by beunited.org with all services and standards voting privilages.
Haiku is not the OSBOS standard, rather, it is currently a representation of the standard that beunited.org can effectively distribute to its members as a free gift under the community membership plan. All current members of beunited.org are under this plan. As an added bonus to our members the distribution will also include Sun's J2SE Java platform, Mozilla, and all other applications that are not part of Haiku (see develop link above).
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