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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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beunited.org disestablished officially
Posted: Deej - Thursday January 04 2007 - 16:30
In what should come as very little surprise to the community, beunited.org is being officially disbanded and disestablished.
As a member of the BeOS community for over a decade, I felt that a final word should be placed on the site rather than just letting the site sit as it has for well over a year.
beunited.org (previously BeUnited) began back in 2000 as a portal for application development on the BeOS platform. It sponsored driver development and the development of applications that were felt as needed for the success of the BeOS platform.
After the demise of Be, Incorporated, many BeOS-derivative platforms arose from the ashes: Open-BeOS (now Haiku-OS), Cosmoe, BlueEyedOS, and others. BeUnited shifted focus and incorporated as a non-profit to create a common ground between these OS platforms, while maintaining a CVS repository for applications that would have otherwise been lost and forgotten.
Over time, beunited lost members due to lack of time or major life events. The momentum slowly died down, and beunited has laid stagnant for quite some time.
After speaking with Simon, we have decided that since neither of us have had the time to continue beunited's efforts for well over a year, and do not expect to have any more time over the coming year, and since there is only one remaining OSBOS platform still active, Haiku, beunited's main focus is no longer needed in the community.
It is at this point that beunited will officially bow out of the community, even though we haven't really been active for quite some time now.
As far as the cleanup actions:
Java will progress under Haiku, as they are able to continue.
The Annotated BeBook has been turned over to the Haiku-OS website for continual maintenance there.
The beunited.org domain will remain online with all the current content for an undetermined amount of time for archive purposes.
The CVS repository will remain up for an indefinite amount of time, as Simon is able to maintain it's uptime status. If you have the resources to take over the CVS repository from beunited, feel free to do so.
The other domains previously owned by beunited are going to lapse in the future and will not be renewed. If you would like to adopt one of these domains, feel free to email me about it. The domains up for "adoption" are as follows:
- beunited.us - Expiry Date: July 26, 2007
- beunited.net - Expiry Date: July 27, 2007
- beunited.com - Expiry Date: April 6, 2008
- osbos.org, osbos.net, osbos.com - Expiry Date: April 20, 2008
Adoption fees may apply if you are not planning to use the domain in a BeOS-related way. If you would like to use any of these domains, or take up the beunited effort as a whole, please contact me and I'll gladly assist any transitions.
Do not fret, as beunited has spawned at least two successful projects - BeZilla, now Mozilla and it's various children. That project is also beunited's oldest project, started officially by David Reid and brought in as the first official project for BeUnited back in April of 2000. The other adopted project that is still being actively developed is the Pe Editor project. I am proud to see these projects still active and working independently without any help or guidance from the [non existent] beunited.org staff.
beunited.org wishes the Haiku developers it's best, and also would like to commend Magnussoft for taking over the development of Zeta, the commercial successor to BeOS, from yellowTab.
I personally hate to see beunited.org disappear into the ether, but I no longer have the time or motivation to continue the efforts under the beunited flag, especially since most of what we stood for in the post-Be, Inc. world has all but diverged together under Haiku, also a non-profit organization more than capable of taking this community into the future and nearing completion of a platform that was once thought to be a pipe dream. Congrats to Michael Phipps and the entire Haiku development team that have put so much sweat and tears into the community, even as it seems to fade away into oblivion. Keep it alive for us all - bring back the OS that once brought us all together - it is your duty and mandate. ;)
Take care, and see you all around the web.
Donovan Schulteis (aka Deej)
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beunited.org disestablished officially
Posted: Deej - Thursday January 04 2007 - 16:29
In what should come as very little surprise to the community, beunited.org is being officially disbanded and disestablished.
As a member of the BeOS community for over a decade, I felt that a final word should be placed on the site rather than just letting the site sit as it has for well over a year.
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Haiku Runs Tracker
Posted: beunited.org - Wednesday July 13 2005 - 07:18
Perhaps the most significant visual demonstration of the progress of Haiku is its ability to run the main user interface windowing system Tracker that Be Inc released as open source some time ago. Tracker is a beast of a program and on July 6th the Haiku team announced that they had successfully had Tracker running on Haiku. No other open source OSBOS project has yet reached this milestone, and only Zeta had Tracker running prior to this.
» View Screenshots of Tracker on Haiku here
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Haiku App Server Moves On
Posted: beunited.org - Thursday June 16 2005 - 09:26
The Haiku app_server has been moving forward with reports from the team leader, Dark Wyrm, that many bugs (BMenu, environment variables, and clipping) have been fixed and that the team now has Axel as a new member. With half of the classes finished and only 88 classes to go, some of which are also partly done, the team is asking any assistance of programmers to contribute to finish up the job.
» Check out the whole blog here
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Zeta to Attend Linux World Expo 2005
Posted: beunited.org - Sunday May 22 2005 - 14:14
The Zeta team will be presenting their argument for an "OS designed for the desktop" in comparison to the many flavors of Linux that are not designed with the desktop in mind.
This is an approach that needs to be spoken of more publically and comparisons published to awaken the greater OS community outside of the OSBOS community. beunited.org applauds yellowTab for their efforts to bring OSBOS to a wider audience.
» Read the press release here.
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Haiku Now Has A Window Manager
Posted: beunited.org - Saturday May 07 2005 - 13:03
The Haiku Project keeps making progress at an encouraging pace. This time it is the app_server team that has reached one more important milestone.
After months of hard work, the window manager is almost complete, with support for all the window types specified in the BeBook, workspaces, and more. Adi Oanca, the developer that worked on this part of the app_server, has posted a detailed report with plenty of screenshots.
» Progress report with screenshots
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