Catching up on BeOS-related sites after my week-long visit to rural Cape Breton (aka the land of no broadband and frequent winter phone outages), I see that there’s been no shortage of interesting news over the holidays. So in an attempt to get the site up-to-date again I’ve written a short summary of recent happenings. Read more for a roundup of the last week of BeOS-related news, presented as a delicious feast of nourishing bulletpoints.
DaaT over at ICO recently got the scoop on a new shareware RSS / Podcast client for Zeta called, appropriately enough, BePodder. The screenshots posted look quite slick and polished and the developers have also made the generous pledge to donate 20% of their sales revenue to the Haiku Project. No word yet on when it will be released, but it looks largely finished judging by the screenshots.
On December 27th, Zenebona – a new audio player/ripper/organizer for Zeta – was posted to BeBits. Written by a Hungarian developer going by the nick RoGer, Zenebona appears similar to applications like iTunes and WinAMP 5 in that it provides a unified interface for organizing and importing audio files, as well as playing them back. The commercial version also sports the ability to burn audio CDs and read-only iPod support. Currently it only supports ID3 tags and not BFS attributes, but it’s a very impressive-looking first release nonetheless.
Christian Biesinger (aka “biesi”) has made some significant progress in porting the Cairo vector graphics library which is seeing increasing use in projects like the Gecko (Firefox) rendering engine. IsComputerOn reports that work has already begun to support Cairo in BeZilla and Kian Duffy over at HaikuNews pointed out that Cario will be useful to anyone developing a BeOS port of GTK+.
Dane Scott recently made an interesting post on LeBuzz describing the current state of Zeta’s sound card support and pointing out areas that need improvement. He’s also collecting suggestions to pass along to yellowTAB – so if there’s a sound card you’d like to be able to use in Zeta, head over and post a comment.
HaikuNews has some interesting information on the progress of wireless and PCMCIA support under Haiku/BeOS. In addition to some headway on Haiku’s PCMCIA subsystem, there has also been development work done by Patrick Lafarguette to support PCMCIA Echo Audio cards. Patrick, who is apparently busier over the holidays than I am all year, also released updated drivers for the Intel 2200 and Ralink wireless chipsets which include monitor mode support. And to top it all off, he also released BeNetworkCapture, an application that makes use of the updated driver features to capture wireless packets and perform basic analysis of them.
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