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Sorry about the outage the past few days… the domain expired and I was out of town on business and unable to do anything about it until my return. As promised when people donated, we were good for 3 years, and 2 of those remain. I had forgotten to renew the domain name for the […]
I was doing a little upkeep around the site and noticed that Icon Tarot section was no longer working. It’s fixed now. So all of you that have been wondering lost without BeDope’s tarot to guide you can have your decisions once again guided by its’ prophecies.
I got a real kick out of this post on /.: “TechCrunch announced that they are planning to design their own $200 web tablet device. Quoting: ‘The idea is to turn it on, bypass any desktop interface, and go directly to Firefox running in a modified Kiosk mode that effectively turns the browser into the […]
So I felt a little goofy the other night, and decided to pull off a little April Fools prank on BeGroovy, since it had been such a long time since doing so. I didn’t actually have time to build a theme so users here could pick the theme for good, like I wanted to. Oh […]
According to Bruno in an email to the Haiku mailing list, Haiku is now self hosting! Nevermind the date being April Fools, as he does acknowledge this, and states that this is no joke. This is a huge milestone, and worthy of much congratulations (and pizza, beer, paychecks, et al) to all those working hard […]
Well, wasn’t as difficult a problem as I thought… should have looked into it weeks ago. Somehow the settings file got blanked out – but there was, strangely enough, a backup file of it. Just renamed it and all is now well. Sorry about the outage guys and gals!
The beunited.org domain name is set to expire on the 4th of April, and I do not plan on renewing it (I’m financially unable to, nor see any real reason to – other than for archival purposes – at this time). This means, not only will the website disappear, so will the [aging] cvs repository. […]
Well, chalk one more ended post-BeOS project up for Bernd… Bernd and the Zebuntu Team decided to go different ways. This has some consequences to Zebuntu. The next Beta version will be shipped with a new icon and window theme. The development of the BeOS Compatibility Layer and integration therefor is now freezed. Not much […]
Bernd is still at trying to help along the BeOS community in his own ways… This time in the form of a revived BlueEyedOS Linux kernel distro based on Ubuntu, aptly titled Zebuntu. To quote a quote from OSNews (the original announcement is in German): “Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new […]
Looks like Haiku is getting some very positive press – once again the project appears on /. (the actual posting is here) – Congrats guys!!! (yes, I still pay attention – and still remember my password here 😛 ).
It seems that there just wasn’t enough folk planning on attending. The official word is out on the mailing list. Haiku’s annual conference, WalterCon, just isn’t gonna happen this year. Bummer… well, here’s to next year’s – which should have twice the content, and twice the fun! 😉 UPDATE: For those of you who have […]
As reported on other sites, Haikuware is now hosting bounties. Safe to say, this is a great initiative from Karl, and has been warmly welcomed by most of the Haiku community. The SATA bounty has been even more warmly welcomed, with nearly $1000 in donations already. I’ll be adding in my $0.02 to both that […]
As reported over at Haiku News, Xentronix is ceasing development on BeOS/Zeta/Haiku platforms and focusing entirely on the MacOSX platform. It’s very sad to see them go, but it looks as if Frans, et al, took a hit, both financially and in faith, during the recent Zeta troubles. Can’t say that I can blame them. […]
As reported on IsComputerOn, there’s a new site around the block… this one a new site for downloading software – HaikuWare is meant to be a Haiku-compatible only BeBits-like site. Hopefully, should the community migrate to this newer site, this could reduce the number of bad download links and irrelevant software listings that now exists […]
I wanted a small form factor box to run BeOS and Haiku on. After much looking around at the current offerings, many with too new or too obscure features to use for a Haiku build tool, I decided to take the dive on an Eagle Tech IMC6375 (also available in black). The bottom line of […]
There has been some chatter on the Haiku/OpenBeOS mailing list about setting up recurring donations to the Haiku organization – and Haiku has responded. You can now donate a recurring amount by the month or by 4 week time periods. You can also get some limited edition T-shirts. Of course, regular, one-time donations can still […]
After a lot of good discussion of the WalterCon content on the OpenBeOS (Haiku) mailing list, Michael Phipps has posted a survey for consideration into the planning of the next WalterCon. You can find it here: http://www.my3q.com/home2/161/mphipps/waltercon.phtml The survey itself lends more to location, cost and interest, but I think that the thread on the […]
BeGroovy is preparing for a website redesign, among other efforts, and we have an urgent need for someone that does graphics arts better than Yez or I can (which isn’t asking for much), since Cougar is a bit too occupied recently to do anything for us. The work will be mainly logos, the category icons […]
As posted on other sites, our ex-fearless leader has denounced yellowTab of ever holding any license for modification and distribution of Be Intellectual Property whilst JLG sat on the board of directors at PalmSource. Considering that, and the fact that JLG lead Be, Inc., I’d say that we have confirmation of the legality of Zeta […]
So, if you haven’t spotted it on IsComputerOn or BeOS News, Bernd has officially closed of the Second era of BeOS commercialism (Be, Inc., and BeOS, being the obvious first) – Zeta is no more. Bernd’s post sounds like it was harder to write than my own closing at beunited, and I’m sad to see […]
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