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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. […]

After careful consideration and some email discussions with the OS Drawer folks, BeGroovy has decided to cease plans to create a developer SVN repository here.  There were a couple of main thoughts behind this decision.  First and foremost, OS Drawer is headed up by Andrea Bernardi, long time BeOS community member and head of IT […]

Many of you have heard the rumors… well, on the 4 year anniversary of this post, I decided that today was probably as good as any to announce our intentions of building a repository to hold the beunited source code from their CVS server.  We’ll also be glad to host other projects, new and old, […]

Daat over at IsComputerOn sent me some questions concerning beunited’s demise, and I of course answered them. Feel free to read up on it over there. Daat is also collecting any follow-on questions for me to answer “from the audience”, so don’t post comments here with questions – do it through the comment system there, […]

In what should come as very little surprise to the community, beunited.org is being officially disbanded and disestablished. Thank you very much for a great effort to help the BeOS community! Complete details can be found at beunited.org

Just wanted to post a quick note that I have been shuffling servers around, and in the process, beunited seems to have lost its’ dns “correctness”. A couple of other sites of mine have also suffered from this during the deletion of the old accounts as they were merged all under one new account. Never […]

The esteemed Jason “aka. Maverick” VanDerMark emailed in to alert us of a recent LooneyBin posting by Bryan Varner about the Java AWT (a beunited project – thus the icon/category for this posting): Bryan Varner has posted an update to the state of Java on BeOS. The team’s work on AWT seems to be progressing […]

Well, hasn’t been reflected on beunited’s site yet, but according to Bryan Varner’s Looney Bin, the Java team has finished up all the remaining work, and is now awaiting Sun to certify it! Way to go guys! Update: So I’m the fool this year. Didn’t even realize that April Fool’s had come and gone, and […]

An update from beunited.org was made a few days ago regarding the webapge downtime which is now resolved, and a notice for developers regarding the code.beunited.org CVS server. Read the following for the full info: Recently the www.beunited.org web site was down. We apologize for this inconvenience to our members and the community. The situation […]

Simon Gauvin took time to talk about the role of beunited in the support of Haiku and the Haiku community. Developing standards, helping support application development, and being one of the distribution arms of Haiku are the goals of beunited.

More news on the up coming WalterCon in issue 53 of the OpenBeOS newsletter, including a free T-shirt for those attending. The event is shaping up to be pretty interesting. In other news, the newsletter includes an article on replicants and a community communication piece. Head on over to OpenBeOS and give it a read.

Axel Dorfler announced today on the OpenBeOS mailing list that OpenBeOS can now be booted off a partition instead of just a floppy disk. The kernel itself does not support hard drive access just yet, meaning shortly after booting the kernel will panic. A short description of how to test if the kernel will boot […]

Issue 52 of the OpenBeOS newsletter went up today over at openbeos.org. The issue includes a tutorial on how to get OBOS, a fun read about working through a circle algorithm and a snippet from the life of Mike himself.

The OpenBeOS project announced its first conference to be held this summer in Columbus, Ohio. Michael Phipps calls the first conference “One short, action packed weekend full of fun and excitement. We’ll get started at 9 or 10 AM on Saturday and finish up about 5PM on Sunday.” Conference attendees will be among the first […]

Happy New Year to all. Some quick updates: For those of you that are members of beunited.org and haven’t checked your email in a while, you will find the latest copy of the beunited.org newsletter in there. For those of you that are NOT a registered user of beunited.org, why not? They are a great […]

Just wanted to put out a little reminder about banners.beunited.org. It’s a free banners service for BeOS related sites hosted by beunited.org. If you have a BeOS related site, or a site that may be of interest to BeOS users, you can put a banner up at no cost. It is _asked_ that you put […]

Saw over on slashdot that O’Reilly is licensing their stuff through Creative Commons’ Founder’s Copyright program. While this is commendable and an interesting statement for a publisher to make, you may be wondering what this has to do with BeOS. Well, a commons helps everyone, including us Be users. How so? Well, O’Reilly is also […]

beunited.org has been accumulating the source code to several BeOS applications that were no longer being supported by their original authors. Recently they posted updated version of ArtPaint, ReName!, Flipside A.E., and Army Knife to BeBits, as part of their effort to bring needed apps to the BeOS community. Three of those four programs I […]

In a leaked correspondence from beunited.org, BeGroovy reporters have discovered that beunited.org has entered into negotiations with high ranking persons from Nigeria in an effort to bring money into the community. The leaked document references 22.5 Million USD, but there are rumors that this amount could be as high as 126 Million. Donovan Schulteis, Chairman […]