Leonardo Renamed to X-OS.
Feb 13, 2003 00:01 UTC, by Daniel, Senior Journalist
From the top secret department...

Leonardo, the ever misterious project lead by Massimiliano Origgi has become even more misterious by changing it's name to X-BeOS. And sorry to disappoint all those big fans, but i'm pretty sure we won't see Mulder nor Scully joining the (small but efficient) team. beunited.org announced it (after i browsed their site most of the afternoon), so let me mirror the announcement here:
 
"The Leonardo project, run by Massimiliano Origgi has been moved to Xentronix Software and renamed to X-OS.
 
The project has a new approach to BeOS with new interface and OS ideas. They will be using code from other projects but plan to implement their own kernel at some future date.
 
beunited.org would like to extend a warm welcome to the latest addition to the OSBOS family of projects."
 
So now you know why Xentronix couldn't continue their work on (the excellent) SampleStudio. When I find more (publishable) information on X-OS, i will let you know, count on it.
 
Important Update: I was contacted by the project's team which have asked me to issue a correction to the article. So in their own words:
 
"The project alluded to by beunited does exist and there should be more information available soon. Before then we've been asked to correct some incorrect facts:
 
- The project is headed up by Frans vans Nispen.
- It is NOT Leonardo moved to Xentronix.
- The project is not in competition with OpenBeOS.
- X-OS was an early working name, not the final name.
- The intention is not to have an open source project as the kernel and much of the code will remain closed source."
 
I would like to thank the them for correcting the misconceptions. A bridge has been established and when we have more information, we'll let everyone know. Thank you and stay tuned.