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news-2003-10-04

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

October 4, 2003 Command reference updated/fixed. Binary snapshot added. site

news-2003-10-10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

October 10, 2003 CVS instructions added. CVS installed. ‘Build level information’ book added. site

news-2003-10-20

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T15:35:58+00:00

October 20, 2003 Small development tasks. We are looking for contributors! development help tasks

news-2005-01-11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:34:40+00:00

January 11, 2005 Site online again. Was some problems with scripts. osFree project still in information and sources collecting phase, so no yet general usable stuff. site

news-2005-04-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T15:40:46+00:00

April 3, 2005 Poll stopped. poll site

news-2005-05-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:36:54+00:00

May 14, 2005 * osFree mentioned at osViews.com in article about ReactOS: [1] * Samuel A. Falvo II released first boot sequence prototype [2]. Check Boot sequence forum for more information. * Old forum replaced by more powerfull forum system (PhpBB). osFree skin is bad ;) We are looking for web-page designers.

news-2005-11-24

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

24 November 2005 First osFree screenshot [1]. promotion

news-2005-11-28

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

November 28, 2005 OSNews.org published news about osFree [1] promotion

news-2006-11-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:39:19+00:00

November 3 2006 After a little work, Kevin Garricks (aka Jay) has been completed the dokuwiki area of the site. There are a few little glitches here and there in the site’s design, but they are nothing that would be of any consequence, and will not detract from the usability nor attractiveness of the site for the user. If you wish to contribute with the growth of the wiki and osFree’s development and documentation you must ask on the forum for us to upgrade your account to “user” or “deve…

news-2006-11-22

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:42:41+00:00

November 22, 2006 Another article at OSNews where mentioned osFree and Voyager promotion

news-2007-01-10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:43:36+00:00

January 10, 2007 The dotproject area is officially working for guests. You may now check on our progress real time at any time quickly and easily. Also there is a new, better theme integration into phpBB dubbed osfree3 for registered user info. This does not mean we have our login systems integrated yet, however.

news-2007-02-02

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:45:11+00:00

Febuary 2, 2007 The osFree web team has decided to change several things. First and foremost, unregistered users cannot comment on news stories. Secondly, the ability for you to register your own account has been disabled to prevent spam dummy accounts from registering. From now on, you must request an osFree wiki account either by contacting the admins (if you are a developer you probably already received an account from one of the admins) via email or the forums. These changes were ini…

news-2007-04-01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

April 1, 2007 PhpBB and Dokuwiki logins have been integrated. site

news-2007-06-08

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:46:24+00:00

June 8, 2007 The dotProject portion of our site has been restored after a long time of being unable to be used by either guests or the osFree staff, upgraded as there was an oppertuinity to do so. In addition to this recently we’ve had a large amount of downtime due to some big problems with one of our host’s hard drives. But now, you can now enjoy viewing the site again and most importantly the project’s status.

news-2007-07-05

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:46:59+00:00

July 5, 2007 For Linux personality we can select existent Linux distribution to have as less maintaining as possible. The Linux personality isn't the main goal of the project and we don't want to lose much time for it. The Poll about Linux personality is located

news-2007-08-12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:48:06+00:00

August 12th, 2007 Today we started uploading the sources to SVN with the aim to configure a common build system. As we do not yet have an own SVN-Server yet, we are using the SourceForge Server. You can find the sources at . At the moment this is NOT fully functional, not even all parts of the sources have been uploaded. Still feel free to improve osFree

news-2007-09-06

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:54:02+00:00

September 06, 2007 According to our roadmap we are now at version 0.0.3 now. We have a general working of FreeLDR (except config parser and VBE support) for stage 0.0.2 and a working CONFIG.SYS parser for stage 0.0.3. We still are thinking about real requirements for version 0.0.4 at the present time because we have working LX parser prototype and most of IFS must be in Personality Neutral services. So, we are planning to slightly review the 0 .0.x series roadmap for better representation …

news-2008-08-26

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

26 August 2008 * We started collecting bugs in bugtracker * Build system significally improved (thanks to Valery Sedletski) * Work on OS/2 server internal structure started (Thanks to Sven-Eric Rosen and Sascha Schmidt for working on initial parts) * Support of original IBM

news-2008-09-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:26:00+00:00

3 September 2008 sf.net news now duplicated at osfree.org Starting from now project news from sf.net shown on main page of osfree.org site news

news-2008-09-12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

12 September 2008 New developer joined osFree project. Alan Grippon will work on DOS command line tools. * We are looking for Win16 developers to work on Win16 applications (initial codebase available) * We are looking for PHP developer to integrate our forum and core site

news-2008-09-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

14 September 2008 channel opened at EFnet irc

news-2008-09-19

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T08:32:06+00:00

19 September 2008 #osfree IRC channels work now at EFnet and eCSnet under control of osfreebot and eCoLabs/osfree bots. Thanks to Digi for help. irc

news-2009-02-19

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:27:42+00:00

19 February, 2009 New team member Vadim (Oxyd) Priluzkiy joined to osFree project. Welcome here! development

news-2009-04-08

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:31:24+00:00

8 April, 2009 FreePM project now part of osFree project FreePM project now part of osFree project. All source base now in osFree SVN and some goals slightly changed (like SOM interfaces instead of C++ interfaces and binary level compatibility, instead of source level compatibility). Most of services disabled and now osFree project services must be used. Thanks to Evgen Kotsuba for the help.

news-2009-04-25

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:33:01+00:00

25 April, 2009 EFNet bots changed EFNet bots osfreebot and osfree is dead. We are glad to present new bot: osFree2. Thanks to Yoda for bot hosting. irc

news-2009-06-17

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:34:56+00:00

17 June, 2009 Better news service at #osFree Starting from now channel supports rss news translation to channel. You will see any changes of project immediatly. Thanks to Yoda for bot extending. irc

news-2009-07-02

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T18:29:17+00:00

2 July, 2009 New logo and site fixes We replaced our old logo by new modern one. Thanks to Alexander Kramer for this work. Also we fixed small annoying bugs in our CMS. Thanks to Kim Haverblad for the help. promotion logo artwork

news-2009-09-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:39:57+00:00

3 September, 2009 0.0.4 release We released this preview to show actual possibility of LX executables (native OS/2 executable file format) to be run on top of L4. Output from LX executable is “I am really small!” phrase. Other things are debug output. Our executable uses msg.dll which uses doscalls.dll. So, linking also works. Also we present here osFree loader which allows to load as Multiboot compatible kernels as native

news-2009-09-05

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-06-09T14:36:43+00:00

5 September, 2009 Forums Registration in forums at osfree.org site is enabled recently. Please report forum bugs and render problems to us in “osfree.org site” forum. site forum

news-2010-01-31

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:45:16+00:00

31 January, 2010 Recent activity We have linked our channels #osfree @ eCSNet and #osfree @ EFNet. All messages in one channel are translated to another channel. Also we reviewing our release and development position to be more effective. As always, we are welcome new developers in many areas (DOS/WIN16 and

news-2011-10-27

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:47:46+00:00

27 October, 2011 A presentation of osFree on CC'2011 August 28, osFree team member Vadim Priluzkiy (aka Oxyd) has demonstrated osFree OS/2 personality working together with l4linux over L4 microkernel. The presentation was carried out during the Chaos Constructions'2011 yearly Computer Art Festival. (

news-2014-06-27

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T10:51:28+00:00

27 June, 2014 RSS feeds repaired, the fight with spambots seems to reach the end After server crash at the end of 2012, the site is being repaired from Feb.-Mar. 2013 until now. Now the wiki is being filled with info (some of which is restored from web.archive.org), and parts of Forum too. So, welcome to our new site! Also, until now, some code were committed to the repo (namely, fat32.ifs with FORMAT routine enabled (by valerius), and also commits by Viking, fixing some problems with bui…

news-2017-12-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:20:23+00:00

3 December, 2017 Migration to Genode is started. We started to create the required abstraction layers to make the osFree OS/2 personality more portable. This will allow us to also create L4Re and Genode ports. As our OS/2 personality is currently based on an outdated and abandoned L4Env

news-2018-02-11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:19:48+00:00

11 February, 2018 Migration to GitHub. Today Oxyd finished migration of our source code repository from SourceForge to GitHub. Our new repository is . We welcome new contributions and pull requests, since now. migration repository github sourceforge git svn

news-2018-06-07

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-16T11:27:30+00:00

7 June, 2018 Migration to the new hosting. Today we started migration of osfree.org to another hosting. Here we'll have more powerful server with more disk space, RAM and network bandwidth. site migration server hosting

news-2018-12-22

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-22T17:55:38+00:00

22 December, 2018 Forum migration to pbpbb3. Today we migrated our forum from myUPB to phpbb3. Also, from now, wiki logins are integrated with forum, so, once you login to wiki, you're logged-in in forum, and vice versa. We migrated all old wiki users, so, login/password are still the same.

news-2019-09-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-09-02T23:19:07+00:00

03 September, 2019 Several people asked about how they could donate to osFree. Recently, we created a Patreon page for osFree to collect donations on monthly basis. So, if you want to support osFree, become a patron. If you want to make a one-time donation, you can transfer some money to our Bitcoin wallet. See

news-2020-05-15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-06-09T14:35:03+00:00

15 May, 2020 Today, a new developer joins the osFree team. Let's introduce Pedro Vicente from Portugal. Welcome to our team! team development

news-2020-06-09

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-06-09T14:35:16+00:00

09 June, 2020 SMTP server now working, anti-spam measures taken. Recently, we added some anti-spam measures for our forum and mail server. Anti-spam plugin installed on our forum. Now we check all users against the black list when they are registering or posting messages. This reduces the number of spambot accounts registered significantly.