[openbeos] Re: newsletter
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:49:21 -0400
>
>>>Btw, WonderBrush was demoed at the last BeGeistert, and it was
>>>already very nice. (now you know what you have to do to see the
>>>things that will come next, go to BEGeistert :p)
>>
>>Hehe - long roadtrip. Still - I promised Charlie Clark that I would be there
>>when we had a bootable OS
>on x86 that is "reasonably" close to R5.
>
>a date was mentioned but I seem to have forgotten ;-) We will be booting OBOS
>at BeGeistert 011, of
>course. Maybe Michael and other special guests will be there or they'll be
>joining the ever growing list
>of "I can't make it this time but I'm definitely coming to the next one".
>Whatever if you want to come
>make sure you register as soon as possible. We're going to have a nice network
>infrastructure and if we
>get some help building WLAN-antennae we might even go public. Note this does
>not mean IRC or webcams for
>BeGeistert as we just don't have the time to coordinate it all but some stuff
>might get out.
There is booting, and there is *booting*.
What I meant is booting in the same sense as R5 - that drivers work, that the
boot image is read from the hard disk, etc. Preferably that OpenTracker starts
and we have a desktop, too. :-) Not perfection, but a complete, non-perfect
package. :-)
>>This is fixed, but I must beg your apologies - I had no idea how to create
>>the letter after "n" in your
>first name (nor do I even know what it is called, properly), so I made it a
>"c". If someone wants to
>correct me offlist, I can fix it again. :-)
>
>It's called "c cedilla". ç in HTML Shame on you for not knowing how to
>make this character in
>BeOS: what is Keymap for? ;-) Actually Oliver Kohl's Fontboy is an excellent
>way of accessing non-ASCII
>characters in BeOS as long as composition isn't possible.
I could create it in BeOS. I couldn't do so in HTML. :-)
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