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After some time of considering what to do exactly, Choulth decided to write all updates of his Zeta review in both English and German. Future updates on the review - he is planning to publish one every day - can be read on Zetablog.de. To get the English version, you'll just need to click on weiter.../english... every time.

So I suggest adding Zetablog to your bookmarks and check it every day for a continuously growing thorough Zeta RC1 review by a normal user like you and me. It'll be definitely worth keeping an eye out on, mark my words.

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Here's an overview of photos and reviews of BeGeistert. I plan on updating this article with all links till they are listed on the BeGeistert website.

Newly added are the review by Fran?ois Revol and the pictures by Marcus Overhagen. I did not manage staying out of the images this time, he caught me on 3 of them (one full-frontal which I actually kinda like, but my hair could have been better on that one).

Photos by Choulth (Olivier)
- Small and a bit blurry, but cool
- Larger and sharper images from the event
- Two pictures he made of D?sseldorf, nearby where the event is held

Photos by Marcus Overhagen
- Thumbnail list
- Cool pic of Bernd, who kept the cap on all the time

Review by Fran?ois mmu_man Revol
- Review (English)
- Review (French)

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Choulth has posted the first part of his own user-side Zeta review on his Zetablog. Unfortunately it's only in German, so that's why for everyone's pleasure I have attempted to translate the review at the best of my abilities. Check read more for the entire scoop.

Talking about reviews anyway, Fran?ois mmu_man Revol wrote a BeGeistert review in English, which you can read over here.

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I think it's a great thing to see the inactive usergroups returning to the scene. Check this out:

Apart from announcements here and there that Dutch BeOS users are trying to get DuBeUS (Dutch BeOS User Group) up and running again, now it's time for Sweden to recover BUGS (BeOS User Group Sweden).

Fanskapet, a Swedish BeOS user, posted a message about it here. If you're from Sweden and also want BUGS back in business, drop him a line at fanskapet at php-coders dot net.

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Ah, the work of a news editor is never done... yellowTab has just published an array of news, and two of them in particular will interest the end-users.

First, and something that you've all been waiting for, RC1 has gone into production. The master has been sent to the press works and duplication is ongoing.

Second, and this is great business news, the German and English schools in Argentina will from now on provide it's students with Zeta to work on. yT's CEO Torsten Linde had this to say: "We're very excited about this. There has always been tremendous interest in BeOS and Zeta in Latin America where it seems people are more open to new things. As a result every pupil at the participating schools will have individual access to a computer running Zeta. This is pretty amazing considering that in Germany pupils quite often have to sit two or three to a computer.". This is great news indeed.

Last but definitely not least, Paragon Software's Partition Manager is being ported to Zeta under a recent agreement between the two companies. They will bring BFS support onto a commercial partition manager, something that hasn't happened since the SE of Partition Magic some years ago. Paragon will also distribute Zeta in Russia and the CIS.

So as you see, a very good news mix. yellowTab and it's members have been working hard at it, and these deals are another proof of that.

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Thanks to Jason for the mail about this one, and since I never stop working (poor me), I just had to write about it.

BeDoper's parent company "404" is now releasing all of their software and hardware under the Nethack General Public License.

One interesting item is the Vickie arcade... So if you're interested, click the link above to read it all.

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Over the years, several Be UserGroups, or BUGs, have popped up of which some are still alive and are perhaps even stronger than ever, some have disappeared, and a couple of others just more or less went into a coma, and in some cases are getting a wakeup call again. Curiously enough, most of the existing usergroups have no clue of what the other usergroups are up to. And that's a bugger. Time to do something about that and do a series of articles about some of the BUGs out there. Starting off with Italy (click on read more below)

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This year, Frans van Nispen and his pregnant girlfriend (due exactly on my birthday!) were at BeGeistert again, and now that Refraction is starting to look very smooth, Frans held a presentation about it. I assume you have seen screenshots of Refraction or at least heard about it before (if not, head over to the website of Frans' company Xentronix right away). The version of Refraction in the presentation was already newer than the most recent beta available for those who already bought Refraction.

Hit read more to also read a short Q&A I did with Frans during BeGeistert.

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As you all know I have been to BeGeistert last weekend (if you didn't yet know, scroll down to the review). This meant I wasn't able to bring you news updates. Well, here they are. So many things happened or were announced this past weekend that even Eugenia did a small news update on OSNews about the recent developments around BeOS.

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"BeGeistert isn't structured but very nice to be. I think that's because the BeOS users are originally people from the creative side, graphics and music and stuff, and those people aren't very organised. In comparison, the majority of FreeBSD convention visitors are system administrators and are much more routined and very much on their own," a first-time visitor to the event replied to my question how he liked it around there. It wasn't really possible getting you some info straight from BeGeistert, so here is what's been going on at BeGeistert in a nutshell.

Apart from this review I will post a few interviews I performed at BeGeistert. Unfortunately, Nicholas Blachford wasn't there this time, since I wanted to ask him a few small questions about it. They were basically answered by Axel D?rfler when he showed his OpenBeOS-PPC port as far as it booted.