The Final BeDoper
Stephen B. - December 18th, 2005
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Archive for the ‘News’ Category of 2005. I was going to hold off until some of the other BeNews sites published it, but to heck with it. Stephen is off doing serious journalism, and I’m nothing if not a self-promoter. This year end wrap up has articles from Mike S. and BS0, as well as some lesser contributions from myself. Four stories in all. I can also promise a new and interesting delight from both BeDoper AND BeOSNews on the first of January. Unless things go horribly wrong, as they often do. Here is is, my last effort at instigating trouble and causing a swirling maelstrom of controversy this year: BeDoper Year End Wrap Up Can you believe he gave me editorial access? ; )
Here’s a short round-up of some random tidbits of BeOS-related news and information that I’ve come across in the last week. Since the initial release of a test build about a week ago, Bryan Varner has released several new builds with various improvements and bugfixes. The latest release can be found at his blog, for both BONE/Zeta and net_server. The BeZilla folks have been busy lately, recently posting new builds of both FireFox and SeaMonkey (formerly the “Mozilla Suite”). This past week also saw the release of the HaikuMonkey theme, a BeOS style theme for SeaMonkey. BME, the in-development BeOS MSN client (not the Body Modification EZine), recently moved their website to a new location. There are also a few recent posts in their News section, detailing the current and some future plans.
Over on LeBuzz, Dane Scott spotted the arrival of another new site, ZetaHardware.com. The site is run by Chris Knoglinger, reportedly a fellow Canadian BeOS/Zeta user, and contains information about Zeta-compatible hardware. They already have a handful of well-written reviews detailing Zeta compatibility with some common pieces of hardware, as well as a list of hardware they’ve had a chance to test. It’s great to see more new sites, and another handy resource when buying hardware, along with the BeDrivers.com Compatibility Matrix.
The sharp eyes over at ZetaNews and IsComputerOn have spotted some interesting news on forthcoming German language support in the TuneTracker radio automation system. Dane Scott has announced that the upcoming version 3 of TuneTracker will offer a fully German-localised version, including full documentation in german. In other TuneTracker-related news, Dane has released a short sample clip of his “FastTracker” BeOS/Zeta training CDs over on LearnZeta.com. The clip stars the famous BeOS GL Teapot demo.
A new Zeta reseller has been announced, this time in my own backyard – the land of milk and hockey. The descriptively-named ZETA-Canada has launched with the aim of providing ZETA sales and services to Canada in particular and North America in general. As part of the launch, they’re also offering their remaining stock of ZETA RC1 + R1.1 upgrade for $90 Canadian (about $80USD), about $20 less than the normal cost of the Academic edition.
Hot on the heels of the tantalizing screenshots he released last week, Bryan Varner has posted a test build of his GUI for the Transmission BitTorrent client. First reported by those lovable sheep fans at IsComputerOn, the download comes in two flavours: BONE/Zeta and net_server. This build appears to be a pre-release and has not yet been posted to BeBits, but it’s already fully working and appears to be largely feature-complete. A very nice pre-Christmas present for us BeOS BitTorrent users.
The Sandwich Boy has served up a virtual buffet of news in the latest BeDoper update. In addition to a picture of some manner of non-parallel key, this issue of BeDoper also mentions some new BeOS news site that all the kids are talking about, and has an investigative report on the real reason Michael Phipps left the Haiku Project. Head over and read it, unless of course you hate kittens. You don’t hate kittens, do you?
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