Research & Development

Overview

Over the past few years a mountain of ideas and concepts have gone unexplored and untested and sliced to ribbons repeatedly. As stated on the Front Page, BinOC/Labs aims to rectify that as the top level of a few sub-categories that we want to either want to explore or get back into. These three categories are PHP (and server side infrastructure), Mozilla-releated "web" technology, and The Linux.

PHP and Server-Side Infrastructure

Binary Outcast was behind the only independantly created and fully featured Mozilla-related Add-ons Site infrastructure known to exist. Namely Project Phoebus. Along with other bits of either new (such as Artemis and Selene) or new-to-them pieces of infrastructure (having a source code repository and later forge) and good old fasioned systems administration that made our former efforts elsewhere what they are to this day (Shame it hasn't advanced much since then). Yet, BinOC can do even better than that. I am sure of it.

Mozilla-related "web" technology

Of course, much of our endevors for the past decade have been surrounding Mozilla-related technology on and off the web. Including forward-porting a certain Firefox fork front-end appcore up fourteen reletive Mozilla Releases.. Twice. As well as similar feats of impossibility.

While certain avenues are not currently open to my self personally any longer.. We will just have re-instate core messures to resume accomplishing the impossible.

First up is a modern Firefox Fork done in the traditional way under the BinOC/M3 brand. Perhaps more if anything Mozilla-not-SeaMonkey remains in the intrests of users and contributors.

The Linux

Nice things were depercated in 2005 and we are almost out of long-term support according to one revered tech icon. We agree, but absolutely not to let it stand without question or challenge.

Much linuxing will come eventually so keep an eye out. Mainly focused on X11 and the freedom to create whatever enviornment you want and not what is mandated from the oxymoron of Corperate Open Source.

Projects

BinOC/Labs Projects are ones that are expected to continue over the long term. From useful utilities, to desktop applications, and server-side infrastructure.

• Project Ascendant and associated Metropolis Utils
• AxionTwo - The Almost-Build System
• M3 Neptune - Third Generation Add-ons and Packaging Infrastructure
• M3 Reference Browser / BinOC Echo Browser - Modern Firefox (AppCore) forked the Traditional Way

Experiments

Projects in preleminary experimentation to determine viability or just an adhoc one-off.

• Fez Advanced Workstation - EL8 userspace with updates, additions, and OpenBox.
• Snowball Kernel - Lightly modified Linux Kernel
• M3 WebRunner

Theories

Here in the Labs, theories are projects that have had little to no experimentation conducted on them.

• Snowball OS - A new SysVInit / X11 Distro focusing on establishing the most efficient system with a minimum of layered complexity.
• Snowball DE - including an OpenBox Fork
• BlueSky Software Installer - A wimlib-based System Installer and Software Package Manager
• Something to do with GDE2 sources?
• Unnamed GTK2 Fork
• Unnamed GTK3 Classic-like Fork
• Unnamed Fork for a stripped-down and Rust-Free Linux Kernel for x86-64, ARM, and RISC-V dropping archaic hardware.
• Unnamed Fork of the Grand Unified Bootloader 2
• Undetermined Modified XPFE Gecko/1.8 Projects

Vaporware

Never released BinOC Projects that are so important they should be perpetually listed.

• Borealis Navigator