Date:  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0100
From:  VOICE News Service <feedback at os2voice.org>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: OSFree News

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From: martinDESPAM at DESPAMos2world.com

At OSFree project we are currently working to get 0.0.5 milestone which  it is "Filesystem API  implementation. LX loader must allow loading of  MINICMD.EXE task via L4VFS  and execute it. Minimal set of API must be  implemented. All pointers operations must be replaced by handles  (implement handle manager). OS/2 Server must be much structured. "
 
 We expect this milestone to be completed in May. You are invited to  check the roadmap at: http://www.osfree.org/wiki/doku.php/en:roadmap  
 
 Any developer is welcome on this open source project. There is still a  lot to be done like in the following areas: 
 
 1. Presentation Manager. Draft sources exists from FreePM project.  Sources allow to imagine architecture of PM (it is client-server, like  X) and GPI part (GD used as background to provide primitives)
 
 2. Installer subsystem. WarpIn based. We need to get warpin sources and  provide special backends for installation time (this means not directly  create WPS objects, profiles modification but create first-time-start  scripts instead). 
 
 3. Command line tools. Make revision. Add missed features.
 
 osFree is a FOSS (Free Open Source software) operating system  development project, aiming to replace eventually all OS/2 subsystems  with Open source analogues. It aims for OS/2 Warp 4 (Merlin) as a base  compatibility system, which does not mean that we will not support  features of newer (OS/2 Warp Server for e-business and eComStation) OS/2  versions. This includes rewriting not only user-level code but the OS/2  kernel too. 
 
 Visit the Project's Homepage at: http://www.osfree.org/ 
 
 You can visit the Chat Room at: http://www.osfree.org/ 
 
 Or you can visit the Forums at: http://www.osfree.org/board/ 
 
 We are reusing many other Open Source projects. 
 The projects are listed at: 
 http://www.osfree.org/wiki/doku.php/en:credits  
 
 If you are a developer and you are willing to help us in building an  Open Source OS/2 replacement please visit this page, we need your help:
 http://www.osfree.org/wiki/doku.php/en:develop  
 
 
 Please remember that you can support OSFree by making a paypal donation  at:
 http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=88854  
 
 
 Regards  

OSFree Team

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