BeZilla – “I have some good news, and…”
Stephen B. - October 25th, 2007
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Oscar Lesta recently wrote in to let us know about an interesting – if disheartening – discussion that took place this summer on the BeZilla LiveJournal site. To quote BeZilla developer “tigerdog”:
He also recommends keeping a close eye on Ryan Leavengood’s efforts to port WebKit to Haiku. While it is unfortunate to read that the BeZilla project is apparently approaching some potentially-insurmountable obstacles, the BeZilla devs still deserve plenty of praise for all the progress they’ve made so far – and it’s great to see that they’re still dedicated to improving the BeOS releases based on the current codebase (as the recent Firefox update shows).
That is some truly-brilliant guerilla-marketing: a logo that literally grows on trees! That also has to be worth some “green computing” brownie-points too.
This past Saturday, Firefox 2.0.0.8 was made available for download on BeBits. In addition to bringing the BeOS release up-to-date with the latest official release, the new build also includes a number of BeOS-specific changes. From the release details:
It’s especially nice to see that the shutdown bug – a long-standing issue – is now resolved.
After being stuck in (primarily) Windows for the better part of two months, I finally have my BeOS machine up and running again. From three days of off-and-on troubleshooting, it turned out that the sole cause of the problem (OS refusing to boot fully) was simply a corrupted app_server_settings file. My apologies if you’ve EMailed me recently and haven’t received a reply yet – I’m hoping to get caught up on replies and recent news over the next few days.
I must once again apologize for the recent lack of updates, as I’ve done far too often. And unfortunately, I’m far too busy to write a proper update – so this is merely an update on the reasons for the lack of updates (meta-update?). At the risk of descending completely into self-indulgent blogdom, this summer has involved a ridiculous amount of work, a miniature flood in my apartment (thanks to a water leak in the toilet tank), and a resulting hasty move to a new apartment. On the plus side, I may soon get to deploy BeOS for a work-related project – hopefully I’ll be able to post some more details on that soon. Within a few days I’ll hopefully get the site caught up on some of the most significant recent news, at least – and there has been no shortage of BeOS-related news this summer. Thankfully it’s been well-covered by sites like IsComputerOn, HaikuNews, and BeGroovy (and OSNews from time-to-time). There’s also our own News Aggregate page that lists the most recent headlines from the various BeOS-related websites. P.S.
For the past two years, I’ve been using a cheap KVM switch to share a single set of devices (keyboard, mouse, and monitor) between my BeOS machine and my Windows PC. Due to the extra cost, I didn’t bother getting a KVM switch with audio support – and it seemed unnecessary at the time, as the majority of my audio playback needs were served by the BeOS machine. Over time, however, I began looking for a way to share my speakers between both machines. The answer: a rather convoluted setup that would make Rube Goldberg proud. Since many of our fellow BeOS users are probably in similar situations, I’ve written a description of the setup for anyone who might find the information useful or interesting. Read on for the details.
Remi Grumeau of HaikuNews has recently confirmed – via EMail correspondence with Frans van Nispen – that they are no longer developing software for BeOS-related platforms and have moved to OS X as their target platform. The future of Xentronix’s flagship product – the image editor Refraction – had already been in something of a state of limbo due to the discontinuation of ZETA (development of Refraction had been handed over to Magnussoft just under a year ago), but this is the first official confirmation from Xentronix. While we’re sorry to see him go, we wish Frans and company success with developing OS X software. The story has also been posted by IsComputerOn and BeGroovy.
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