Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:58:20 -0500 From: madodelatptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] osFree Technology Preview released From: "John Martin Alfredsson" osFree, a noncommercial OS/2-compatible system, sees the light of day. English and Russian versions are available at Hobbes. The project invites new participants, below is the manifesto of osFree team: The osFree team is looking for developers that could help us build an opensource OS/2 clone. The OS/2 operating system has served us well during the years we have used it. OS/2 still has its strengths but sadly the developer (IBM) has decided that the strengths do not count anymore. In the end of 2002 all "free" (IBM calls SWC free!) updates will be terminated and in the end of 2006 the plug will finally be pulled. Soon we will have two choices, migrate to another OS or keep running something that will soon turn really old. eComStation may be a dark horse here, but they are still dependant of what IBM will allow them to do. Or, is there another possibility ? In the recent years, open source has made its way into the mainstream computing world. It would be a perfect solution to our problems. Anyone can use the OS and noone will have the power to stop anyone else from enhancing it. IBM has several times been asked to opensource OS/2 but to no avail. Their reasons have been more or less muddy. Therefore we propose a mission to clone OS/2! As you have seen we have already gained some ground with our osFree Technology Preview Edition but we need your help to: - Implement more, lots of stuff needs to be written: Networking, more drivers, Presentation Manager, WPS and so on. - Create a good way to share the code (CVS, build environment) and transform the existing code to an opensource compiler. - Create our own SDK/DDK. - Build documentation both for developers and end users. If you are interested, please join our yahoogroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osFree/) and tell us how you can help ! /The osFree team -> URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osFree/ -> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=osf_en.zip -> FTP-Search: http://download.lycos.com/swadv/AdvResults.asp?query=osf_en.zip Sent via OS2.org online news formular. -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajoratos2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submitatos2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedbackatos2voice.org