Blasts from the Past: BEAM and 3ivx Updated
Stephen B. - March 28th, 2008
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There was a nice surprise among recent BeBits updates: Oliver Tappe has released an updated version of the mail client BEAM. The list of changes contains mainly bug fixes along with a few new features – if the length of the list is any indication, Oliver has done a large amount of work on BEAM recently. Right above BEAM in the “New Software” list there is another unexpected treat: an update the the 3ivx video codec. Most significantly, the update contains specific support for Haiku and experimental support for decoding AAC audio (the BeOS version of 3ivx previously didn’t come with an audio decoder). While 3ivx files aren’t very common, the 3ivx decoder can also be used to decode other types of mp4 video (DivX, Xvid, etc). And if WikiPedia is to be believed, this makes 3ivx Technologies Ltd. the first commercial vendor to support Haiku.
Koki (Jorge G. Mare) inform us today that the Japanese magazine Software Design will publish that article in its April edition but, lucky us, it is already available in english at this location. Enjoy !
Haiku’s guy Niels Sascha Reedijk posted yesterday a status update on the achievements realized in the process of reaching the alpha 1 state. He explains he think this is a good thing to have from time to time updates on this topics for two reasons. The first, to show off the enormous amount of work done in Haiku, the second, to put everyone behind a common goal. Three topics discussed:
Go ahead and read the detailed information at haiku-os.org.
Jorge G. Mare, aka Koki, is pleased to announce today that what Access Co. LTD previously accepted is now a reality. From now on you’ll be able to access the whole BeBook and the BeNewsletter directly from haiku-os.org. We, the community, are grateful to Access for granting us that highly valuated material. Thank you !
haikupodcast.com announced today the availability of the 13th episode of the Haiku Podcast. Listen to the episode here and go visit haikupodcast.com to get more information about what to expect from this edition. Thank you Sikosis for this great community initiative !
Today on OSnews there is a post stating that 2008 Google Summer of Code as officially started. I did not know that was such such a huge project:
My post also as a reminder to you all that you may give a hand to Haiku on this matter. Jorge G. Mare, aka Koki, prepared a flyer to advertise participation to our GSoC 2008 project. If you know a place where advertising this could be of interested to get in touch with some students-programmers, please go print the flyer (use the PDF or ODT format) and stick it on a wall :-)
Follow the path of Sikosis The Haiku-Podcast Guy :-)
Hey, remember I told you about Zebuntu one month ago ? From that time, a sadly thing happened: Bernd and the Zebuntu Team decided to go different ways. Hmm, déjà vu ? Anyway Leszek continues the development of the “forked” project and seems to have decided to change the name of it (hence the [newnamehere] in the title). Several days ago he reported he began development of a One-Click installer (following the good old BeOS/Haiku simplicity is power motto). Five days ago he told us that One Click Installer has reached Beta status at version number 0.5.
At this time four Install Packs seems to be present ( Gamer, Developer, Education and Security Pack). Looking at the screenshot maybe [newnamehere] == zeVenOS :-) ?
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Mmmmm… what about reading an eight pages long article that includes a full interview of Axel Dörfler, as well as comments from Bryan Varner (Haiku Java Port team lead) and Dane Scott, of TuneTracker fame ?
