<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <title>www.UbixOS.com -- Projects</title> </head> <body> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="881"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=bottom width="144"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><img border="0" src="logo.gif" width="144" height="56"></font></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom width="756"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="UbixOSHome.htm"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_home.gif" width="114" height="18"></a> <a href="ubixosteam2.htm"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_team.gif" width="114" height="18"></a> <a href="ubixnews.htm"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_news.gif" width="114" height="18"></a> <a href="ubixfaq.htm"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_FAQ.gif" width="114" height="18"></a></font> <a href="./cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_cvs.gif" width="114" height="18"></a> <a href="./taskmanager/index.php"><img border="0" src="tab_inact_taskman.gif" width="114" height="18"></a></TD> <TR> <TD width="900" colspan="2"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <IMG height=5 src="tab_base.gif" width="889" valign="top"></font></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE style="BORDER-LEFT: #76ace9 6px solid" cellSpacing=15 cellPadding=0 height="579" width="901"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD height="113" width="95"> <p align="justify"></TD> <TD height="113" width="755"> <font face="Arial" size="2">All of our current projects are listed here, as well as several as-yet undetermined projects for which we need developers. If you're interested in becoming a developer for UbixOS, or just have questions, you can mail me <a href="mailto:delerious@ubixos.com?subject=project sign up">here</a>.</font></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=95 height="381"> <p align="justify"></TD> <TD vAlign=top height="381" width="755"> <table class="content" cellPadding="4" width="755" border="0" height="6189"> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> <a name="self hosting"></a>Self Hosting</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="153"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Christopher Olsen Date of Completion: October 5, 2004 </font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">A critical stage of development, self hosting refers to the time when an operating system is stable and functional that development can be pursued from within the new system itself. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Christopher is working on Kernel Development with self hosting as his current task, toward the goal of Unix style stability, and modern functionality.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="kernel"> </a>Kernel Development</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="319"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Christopher Olsen Estimated Date of Completion: October 2004</font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Possibly the most important part of any Operating System, the Kernel is the heart and soul that drives all functions, processes, hardware, and runs the GUI. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Currently, the most important aspect of Kernel Development is to become Self Hosted.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">In the future, Kernel Development will, as a growing process, eventually include all manner of internal functions like hardware detection and support, certain functions of the GUI, even aspects of the file management will be supported by the Kernel.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br> <b>Kernel -- Message Passing Interface</b> -- Being run on top of a micro-kernel, the UbixOS requires some low-level method for processes to communicate with each other. In UbixOS, this interface is called the MPI. Separate processes will communicate by sending simple messages. The implementation of this interface will have some kernel-level system calls and a user-level library for accessing them.<br> <br> <b>Kernel -- Scheduler</b> -- Any multi-tasking OS needs some way of deciding which tasks should be run; the scheduler. The UbixOS scheduler is thread-aware and will implement an O(1) scheduling algorithm. <br> </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="gui"></a> GUI</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="264"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Mark Iuzzolino Estimated Release Date: December 2006</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>GUI </b>-- The GUI </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>WM</b> --</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>ObjGfx</b> --</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="drivers"> </a>Device Driver Library</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="137"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Everybody Estimated release Date: 2004</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Driver Library </b> -- Support for generic versions of all hardware, as well as hardware specific drivers for all pieces of hardware available to us</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="libs"></a> Library Files</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="124"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Christopher Olsen Target release date: December 2004</b></font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Library files</b> -- description coming soon.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b> <a name="help/docs"></a>H</b></font><b><font size="2">elp Files/Documentation/Manual Pages</font></b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="245"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Ken Cameron Estimated date of completion: 2005</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Help Files</b> -- Context based help files accessible via keypress listing available options and questions to refine help needed.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Documentation</b> -- Documentation of available applications, their functions and their usage. Also the official release help manuals and help desk tools.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Manual Pages </b>-- Available on demand from menu selection or terminal application, searchable from keyword or index of topics.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="browser"> </a>File and Web Browser</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="140"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Undetermined Target date for completion: July 2004</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Multi function Browser capable of file management, Web and FTP site browsing, various imbedded functions for management of archived files, file backup, and media playback.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="terminal"> </a>Terminal App</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="137"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Christopher Olsen Estimated date of completion: November 18 2004</b></font><p><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">A Unix style command prompt useful for all manner of file manipulation, user access control, and virtually any other function you wish to perform.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="networking"> </a>Networking Services</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="299"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Christopher Olsen Scheduled for completion: November 2004</font></b></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Wireless card configuration utility</b> -- A utility for configuring your wireless card.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>File sharing</b> -- Share files or folders on your home or office network.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Server authentication service</b> -- Log on to a network file or internet server. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Packet Sniffer</b> -- Monitor what happens on your network. (only available with superuser privileges).</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>LAN traffic monitor</b> -- View network traffic by bandwidth usage by computer or task.(only available with superuser priveliges).</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Firewall configuration utility</b> -- Protect your computer from internet attacks with this fully configurable firewall.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b> <a name="dev studio"></a>Dante's D</b></font><b><font size="2">evelopment Studio</font></b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="554"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Undetermined Target Release date: December 2004</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Dante's Development Studio </b>-- Tools for use from within UbixOS.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Fully visual development studio, useful for creating applications for UbixOS, Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD or other platforms.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Includes header and source files as well as access to the UbixOS Application Wrapper to provide a unified look and feel for UbixOS applications.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Other Platform Development Tools</b> -- Tools to create UbixOS applications from your preferred development platform.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">UbixOS compiler, Source files, Libs, and access to a platform independent version of the Application Wrapper, so that you can test your applications function and form before submitting it for consideration.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>We will accept application and utility submissions</b> -- Companies and independent developers are welcome to submit applications or utilities for consideration to be included in future releases or to receive the UbixOS team approval. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">If submitted for inclusion, negotiation for the sale of rights to the application or utility will follow approval. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">If submitted for approval for independent release, sale of your application is up to you, but any applications or utilities released for UbixOS must meet certain requirements of form, appearance, and function, requirements in full are included in the development tools package. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="media"></a> Media Tools </font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>(Working Titles)</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="258"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Undetermined Target release date: April 2004</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Fabula Media Player</b> -- Basic media player capable of playback of both audio and video. Default player for Video Files.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Cantor Audio Player </b>-- Full featured audio player capable of playback of a variety of audio files. Playlist function allows for uninterrupted playback of many files. Mixer function allows you to mix and remix audio files and save the output to a new file. Default player for audio files.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Spectare Video Player </b>-- Full featured video player capable of editing video by frame, by scene, or anywhere of your choosing, you can save the output of the editing process to a new video file. Of course, there is full control video playback and live feed recording from a webcam or video capture card. Includes capability of full screen playback.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b> <a name="disk management"></a>D</b></font><b><font size="2">isk Management Tools</font></b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="140"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Undetermined Target release Date: October 2004</font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Container Management</b> -- Includes functions for formatting internal and external drives, non-destructive partitioning of drives, defragmenting hard disks, disk imaging tools, and archival/backup tools.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a name="System Architecture"></a>System Architecture</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="140"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Undetermined Target release Date: October 2004</font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>System Architecture</b> -- In any system, there needs to be a consistent and connected approach to its implementation. It is the job of the Architecture team to take a "high-level" view of the UbixOS and ensure that this occurs. The Architecture team maintains a large set of documents explaining how various components of the UbixOS operate and interact with each other.<br> </font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="zip"></a> UbixZip</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="105"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b>Developer: </b> </font><b><font size="2"> Christopher Olsen Estimated date of release: September 2004</font></b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>UbixZip </b>is a fully integrated archival/retrieval tool useful for compressing files and retrieving files from archived files of most types, works with .zip .tar .gzip .gz and many others.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"> <a name="Vbox"></a>I386 Emulator/Virtual </font></b></font><b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Machine</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="105"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b>Developer: Undetermined Target Release date: December 2004</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Emulator </b>--<b> </b>A simple virtual computer application, useful for installing Windows, Linux, BSD or other operating system, making the system files available to you, as well as an opportunity to test and use programs designed for those systems.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a name="client apps"></a>Client Applications</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="684"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b>Developer: varies by application Estimated Date of Release: varies by application</b></font><b><font size="2"><br> </font></b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>IRC Client </b>-- Connect to an Internet Relay Chat and talk to your friends.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Yahoo Chat</b> -- Connect to The Yahoo Network to chat with text, voice or video.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>ICQ</b> -- An ICQ client to Chat with others using the ICQ protocol.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>MSN Messenger Client </b>-- Chat on the MSN network, with this client.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Palm Pilot Sync Utility </b>-- Sync your UbixOS, Palm, Windows CE, Linux, or Pocket PC based handheld to your desktop. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Telnet, SSH, Rsync, CVS Access, FTP</b> --<b> </b>Command Line or Browser based interface. Prompt for logon exists as a pop up dialog box unless USER and PASS are saved in the program settings.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a name="anti-virus"></a>UbixOS Anti-Virus</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="124"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Developer: Undetermined Target release date: July 2005</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>UbixOS Anti Virus </b>-- Monitor for and heal infected files before they infect or damage your computer.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Protection from viruses including periodic updates will continue in perpetuity with a registered copy of UbixOS.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a name="versioning"></a>Versioning, Undelete, and Trash</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="309"> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Versioning, Undelete, and Trash </b>-- Undoing the mistakes we all make.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">The function of these are the same. Any changes made to a file on your Hard Drive are saved to a versioning file, then the previous version is marked for deletion upon a certain action (usually the next save cycle) at which point the versioning file is written to the Hard Drive under the original file name. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">In Occams Office Suite Versioning is handled by writing the changes to the existing file, but the original state of the file is saved in a history file that is available until exiting, at which point the final state of the file is saved as the original filename.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">The Wastebasket functions in a similar fashion, by marking the files for deletion until directed to empty or upon shutdown, at which point the space on the Hard Drive those files occupied is available for rewrite, but in the case of mistaken deletion, until that file has been overwritten, it is still available for undeletion, accessible from the Wastebasket pull down menu.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a name="office"></a> Occam's Office Suite </font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> (Working Titles)</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="579"> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: undetermined Target date of Release: April 2005</font></b></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Tabula -- Database Processor</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> A full featured Database management system, including column and row formulae, and cell manipulation.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Mittere -- E-Mail Management</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Send and receive local, network, or internet based E-Mail.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Mollio -- Scheduler/Calendar</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> </b>Keep all of your personal and professional appointments organized by priority, type, contact, or any other criteria you choose.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Vivio -- Presentation Software</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Create and manage slide show presentations, add animations, sounds, even video with the integrated media management tools UbixOS offers.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Pecunia -- Money Management</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Manage your bank and credit card accounts by owner, type, bank, or a host of other options.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Literis -- Word Processor</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> A full-function word processor, capable of creating various documents readable by most word processing applications available, and reading documents most every document format ever used. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Facio -- WYSIWYG html publisher</b></font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#76ACE9" height="18"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><b> <a name="games"></a>G</b></font><b><font size="2">ames </font></b> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1374" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="613"> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="justify"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Developer: Undetermined Target date of completion: July 2005</font></b></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Solitaire card game</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -A single player card game.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>FreeCell Game</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -An advanced single player card game.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Chess Game</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -Play against the computer or a network opponent in a game of chess.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Bowling</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -Roll a strike, and win the trophy.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>MahJongg</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -Ancient Chinese tile matching game.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>PinBall</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"> -Beat the high score, single or multiple players.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>PipeDream</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> </b>-Connect the sections of pipe in this challenging puzzle game.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=2 height="40" 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