Updated on 11/18/09
About Zester
Zester is a project that focuses on building a secure and highly portable Unix-like Open Source Operating System from scratch.
Zester Software Development
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Advanced GUI Custom Widgets - Easy to create! Every Widget Supports Animation & Special Effects Multiple Rendering Engines to choose from 3D Graphics with OpenGL 2D & 3D Partical, & Physics Engines 2D & 3D Game Engine Included Multithreading Standard, & Embedded Windowing Systems Inter-Process Communication 2D Graphics 3D Audio Support Multimedia Framework -'Vorbis, Speex, Flac, Ogg, Theora' WebKit Integration Network Connectivity 'FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, BEEP, ... XML, YAML, JSON, CSS, XHTML, PDF, SVG, ... Scripting Engine - ECMAScript, Javascript, Lua, Python, ... Database 'Sqlite3 & PostgreSQL' Encryption 'ASN.1, BER, Cipher, Hash, OpenPGP, RNG, SSH, ... SIP Stack Package Managment Interface General Utility's Hardware & Hardware Detection Interfaces for any Linux or FreeBSD Kernel Device Webcam, TV/Radio Card, Joystick/Pad, Wheel, Touchscreen, & Wacom Support Faster than QT4, GTK+, FLTK, WXWidgets, and Fox Toolkit Program in C and or C++
Note: The Zester Toolkit does have restricted codec support provided by Libvlc & MagickWand you get support for 47+ Audio & Video formats and 100+ image formats.
Currently Working On
Building Core System "Linux & FreeBSD Kernels" - Done Note: Although the Core System builds on both the Linux and FreeBSD kernels without modification both kernels support features that they other doesn't and as an end result making api compatibility among they two difficult.
Package Management System & Library - Almost Done Software Development Kit - Working on Window Interface - Almost Done Note: The simple window api is 10 functions from being completed the core_x api was just started. "The simple window api is used for general application development and the core_x api is used for thing like window manager development." Canvas Interface - Working on Custom Widget Creation Interface - Todo JSON Interface - Todo [Less]