Its been somewhat of a slow week on the BeOS news front, number of stories wise. So its time for yet another BeBits roundup! Yes, its that time of the month again...

We'll start with a new version of BeIndexed, an app which lets you index and search files by content. It has now moved to using sqlite instead of PostgreSQL, so it works on plain R5, and with far less overheads.

There is also a new port of cvs, with new attribute sensitivity meaning that updated files are no longer set to have no file type, etc; by Oliver Tappe. Oliver has also provided PowerPC binaries of it, a rare site amongst new BeOS apps.

A new, Packaged version of BeBochs has also been released. This bumps the BeOS version to 2.2, which is the newest on any platform (and newer than MacOS X has), and provides a new, better, faster BeOS native interface; meaning that the slow SDL interface is no longer needed. Bochs can now emulate x86-64 systems, and now supports higher than 8 bit colour and more than 640x480, due to emulating a Cirrus Logic video card.

And finally, the incredibly cool, but unfortunately limited in its userbase, Digital/Analog Scope was also updated. This programme allows those of you with certain computer-attachable oscilloscopes to use BeOS as the interface for them.
**EDIT**
Just got a mail from the auther of Digital/Analog Scope. Apparently, its not an application for using a third-part oscilloscope, its for using your BeOS machine -as- an oscilloscope. Heres a better explanation from the author:

Using nothing more that probe clips, wire and a DB-25 plug that fits
your parellel port that you can buy all the parts at your local Radio
Shack store you can have a 2,4,6 or 8 channel digital logic scope.

Using nothing more than a few extra chips and the circuits diagrams
supplied within the readme file, you can creat a 1,2 or channel analog
scope. The sampling rate is low but the circuits are cheap to make.

I'd like to thank Earl for the clarification.