Random News: Haiku, Bezilla and More.
Nov 15, 2005 00:07 UTC, by Kian Duffy, Senior Journalist
From the argh-must-write-something department...

While its been quiet here in the past while, it hasn't been quiet on the opensource development front. Haiku has received hundreds of checkins in the past week or so, to do with the build system redesign, fixes for GCC4 building (from under Linux), and the ongoing work mon the app_server and interface kit. Axel's blog has been quiet enough, but he's been working away on font support and event handling in the fledgling OS that probably holds the future of us BeOS users computing in its hands.
 
The Bezilla project has also been working away crazily, with Sergei "fyysik" Dolgov revealing that one month led to 48 file checkins. Work has progressed on speedups and scrolling support, with secondary scroll wheels, and even sound output now being supported by the BeOS ports of the Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey browsers.
 
Meanwhile work continues on a native BeOS GUI for BitTorrent client Transmission. The command line versions of the this client, from BeOS VLC maintainer and Handbrake author, Eric Petit, already run on BeOS.
 
Team Haiku Distributed Computing has been on a recruiting spree recently for Seventeen Or Bust, and have been racing up the rankings, both in daily rate and total production.
 
A much-wanted driver, that for the nForce onboard networking, has been released; albeit only for Zeta. In addition, the Ralink driver has been updated to support PCMCIA devices, and WEP.
 
That pretty much concludes the news roundup for the past two weeks or so. Normal service will be resumed soon, I hope ;)