http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 24 May 2013 13:50:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26064/Etoile_0_4_2_eleased/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26064/Etoile_0_4_2_eleased/ "Etoile intends to be an innovative, GNUstep-based, user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components. It is created with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (a.k.a. Applications) and Components. Flexibility and modularity on both User Interface and code level should allow us to scale from handheld to desktop environments." A new release. An actual one. Awesome. And yes, OSNews has issues with diacritic marks, so don't ask. Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:34:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News Modafinil http://www.osnews.com/story/25368/GNUstep_Objective-C_Runtime_1_6_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25368/GNUstep_Objective-C_Runtime_1_6_Released/ "A little over one year after the 1.0 release, I'm happy to announce the 1.6 release of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime. This provides a superset of the functionality of Apple's Mac OS X 10.7/iOS 5 runtimes and provides a solid foundation for Objective-C and Objective-C++ development on Free Software platforms." Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:48:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24068/Sony_s_SNAP_Uses_GNUstep/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24068/Sony_s_SNAP_Uses_GNUstep/ I don't really know what Sony wants with this, but they're using GNUstep, so that's something, I guess. "Sony's Networked Application Platform is a project designed to leverage the open source community to build and evolve the next generation application framework for consumer electronic devices. The developer program gives access to a developer community and resources like SDK, tools, documentation and other developers. The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably." Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:06:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22606/GNUstep_Live_CD_2_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22606/GNUstep_Live_CD_2_0_Released/ The GNUstep project has released a new version of its Live CD, including many GNUstep software and developer tools. As a bonus you get some classic games like nethack, and quite a few network and system recovery and administrator tools. There are also a few 3D and audio programs on it. It's based on the 2.6.31 Linux kernel and Debian Linux distribution, and is created using the live-helper package. It is available for i386, powerpc, ultrasparc, and amd64. It comes with some added multimedia software packages like mplayer, lame, lives, vamps, mypaint, milkytracker, schismtracker, goattracker, opencubicplayer, and a nice selection of free fonts (like M+) and fontmatrix. Google Chrome is installed too. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:43:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News Gürkan Sengün http://www.osnews.com/story/19606/GNUstep_Live_CD_1_8_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19606/GNUstep_Live_CD_1_8_Released/ And yet another release of the GNUstep live CD, version 1.8 this time. "GNUstep (this is a live CD, an operating system, a distribution) contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X)." Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:52:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19576/The_GNUstep_Live_CD_1_6_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19576/The_GNUstep_Live_CD_1_6_Released/ The releases just keep on coming, don't they? The GNUstep live CD has been updated "The GNUstep live CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X)." The GNUstep page can tell you more about GNUstep itself. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:33:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19083/GNUstep_Windows_Installer/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19083/GNUstep_Windows_Installer/ "The GNUstep Windows installer is based on the MinGW system and consists of the basic MSYS and MinGW libraries, other library dependancies and the GNUstep Core packages (gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and gnustep-back). The installer installs GNUstep onto most varieties of Windows (see below for tested installations) and sets up the computer to make it easy to run GNUstep applications. It is based on the NSIS installer." Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:18:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18380/The_Road_to_CoreObject_Part_2_Why_Bother_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18380/The_Road_to_CoreObject_Part_2_Why_Bother_/ "Since the last post, a lot of people have asked me 'why are you doing this? What advantage does it actually give?' In this post, I'll try to explain." Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:58:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18353/Etoile_0_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18353/Etoile_0_2_Released/ "The Etoile project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 of the Etoile User Environment for UNIX-like systems. The Etoile project aims to produce a user environment for desktop and small form-factor devices, with tight integration between components. The 0.2 release is primarily targeted at developers interested in a GNUstep-based environment. This release includes improvements to the Camaelon theme engine, providing a clean and modern appearance to GNUstep-based applications. This is combined with the Etoile Menu Server, providing a horizontal menu bar similar to that found in Mac OS, and making this the first Etoile release with enough features in place to be usable on a daily basis." There are screenshots too. Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:05:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18307/The_Road_to_CoreObject_Part_1_EtoileSerialise/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18307/The_Road_to_CoreObject_Part_1_EtoileSerialise/ CoreObject is intended to be one of the foundation pieces of Etoile. The current roadmap calls for an experimental version in 0.3, a stable interface in 0.4, and a completely stable version in 0.5. "What is CoreObject? Basically, it's a replacement for a filesystem as a programmer and user interface. Files (in the UNIX sense of the word) never were a good abstraction; an untyped series of bytes is no use to anyone. The operating system needs to deal with things like this, but programmers shouldn't have to. We already have a much nicer abstraction than a file; the object. Unlike files, objects have all of the structure and introspection that we want in order to be able to interact with them programatically. In EtoilE, we want to treat everything as an object, and objects as first-class citizens." Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:25:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18157/Etoile_Live_CD_0_2-RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18157/Etoile_Live_CD_0_2-RC1_Released/ The Etoile project has released a release candiate for the 0.2 version of their live CD. "The Etoile project aims to produce a document-centric desktop and post-desktop environment. The project is built on top of GNUstep, a high-quality Free Software implementation of the OpenStep specification from Sun and NeXT and popularised by Apple as Cocoa." Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:00:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18017/Etoile_Progress_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18017/Etoile_Progress_Update/ The Etoile team has published a progress update on the project. They are currently preparing the release of version 0.2 of the Etoile live CD, but on top of that, they are also busy developing new applications. A font manager, an alt+tab application switcher, hot corners, and more. "Étoilé intends to be an innovative GNUstep based user environnement built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind." Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:56:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17979/GNUstep_Packages_Updated/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17979/GNUstep_Packages_Updated/ A lot of new releases in the GNUstep world during the past few days: Make 2.0.1, Examples 1.2.0, Startup 1.18.0, and Zipper.app 1.2. In addition, the first European GNUstep Developer's Meeting has been announced. Fri, 25 May 2007 22:13:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17882/Gorm_1_2_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17882/Gorm_1_2_1_Released/ Gorm 1.2.1 has been released. "Gorm (Graphical Object Relationship Modeller) is meant to be the counter part to NeXT's Interface Builder. With Gorm designing tough and complex graphical interfaces for your applications can easy and quickly be done using drag & drop, powerful inspectors and teamwork with ProjectCenter." Wed, 09 May 2007 21:55:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17810/Etoile_New_Release_Live_CD_on_the_Way/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17810/Etoile_New_Release_Live_CD_on_the_Way/ The developers behind Etoile have discussed their future plans for the project recently, and have provided a summary of the discussion on the mailing list. The Etoile live CD project will be transferred from Nicolas (due to a lack of time) to Quentin; he says: "I will recreate an environment for building the LiveCD from scratch (will now be built on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn LiveCD). To help in this process, Nicolas sent me the current LiveCD scripts. I hope to succeed in two or three weeks." On Etoile itself: "Focus will be put on core elements like System, MenuServer, Azalea, AZDock etc. rather than polished applications for this release. We don't have enough manpower for now and it's better to have a stable foundation to begin with." The next release is now planned for the coming three weeks. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:39:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) OpenStep, GNUstep 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/77 News