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We are gonna make it short as Sequitur no longer is developed for the BeOS platform, but the last BeOS version can still be downloaded over at BeBits.

Sequitur is now being developed for Windows, and an early beta version of the editor can now be downloaded for the sequitur fans out there. A simple how-to guide has also been made available and further information will be made available in a wiki.

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Karl wrote today over at Haikubounties a very interesting piece, an editorial if you like, about Haiku, Haikubounties and its future. Noteworthy is that, to this date, no developer has come forward to tackle one of the three projects for which the bounties were set up. He makes some good points about Haiku and donations to the project, especially the fact that the last statement concerns the year of 2004. Karl did a comendable job (and the donators) raising more money in a couple of months than Haiku did in that year, totaling USD $1275,02. Impressive.

So taking in account that no developer stepped forward and that Haiku's network stack has seen some forward motion work on it and also the snags affecting the JAVA port (he explains it in his post), he's considering terminating the project. So head over, read it all (like I said, very interesting) and leave your opinion/comment/suggestion. Karl will post his final decision a week from today, at the latest.

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Time flies, and BeZip.de has not been available for half a year already.

magnussoft has on their ZETA-OS site made available a download section. Now the German community member Daniel Weber has started building up another download site, called BeUserama.de. There is only a few entries added, but let us hope that this will grow to the size of BeZip.de fast. The site is available in German, with software for BeOS, ZETA and Haiku. Another great feature is that the site has several RSS-feeds enabled that users can subscribe to.

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ZETA-OS announced today... *checks clock*... ok, yesterday, that well known digital imaging software Refraction, by Xentronix, will be included in the upcoming ZETA 1.21. Actually, it'll be a "special-edition" of Refraction (we'll try to find out what's the difference between this one and the regular one).

An interesting note is that ZETA-OS is naming this (apparently) first step as "Foundation of supplementary software has been laid" which leads me to think that more applications will follow, some maybe bundled like Refraction, others download-only? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Not an hour ago, Flojo-Soft presented their new (and first) application named MyBudget. As the name says, MyBudget is a personal finance software, which allows users to keep track of their accounts, expenses, budget, etc. With MyBudget you can, among others:

  • Protect your account(s) with password(s)
  • Statistics tab to get informations on what you spend your money for
  • Overview tab to get a quick overview of expenses/deposits
  • Management of categories (some are already preconfigured)

MyBudget is shareware, the demo has a limit of 10 items (both credit and debit) and you get a 6 second splash window when launching the app. The full version costs €19,95 and hear this, 10% of its value gets donated to Haiku, so you're helping both a  starting software house and Haiku. MyBudget is now available for ZETA and R5. Check out more screenshots here.

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Of course, I couldn't close this piece without mentioning the recently released (3 days ago) Capital Be, by known community member DarkWyrm. It features multiple accounts, account balancing and QIF file import (for those using Quicken). Now suddenly we have two financial apps available!

 

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I got the heads up on these two from Begasus, that nice guy who runs BeBug. Sikosis has just released Haiku Podcast #3 and in this issue he has 2 interviews, one with BeGeistert's own Charlie Clark (very very nice guy I might add) and the man behind Haiku Bounties, Karl vom Dorff. Speaking of Haiku Bounties, the Network Stack bounty is up to $699 and the USB Stack has just passed $300. Impressive!

Now, onto the news about a news site. Rémi over at BeOSFrance has launched the new version of the site, and I must say that it looks damn good! This new version is full CSS and the PHP code is cleaner and (he hopes) free of bugs. Great job Rémi.

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Yesterday, Magnussoft, via the ZETA-OS site, announced the launch of the new Beta Test program. A difference in this beta test program is that the testers will not only work with the OS itself but also with beta applications, drivers and even kernel modules (when you apply you can choose if you want to test only one of those or all of them). What's also nice about this is that everyone can apply, without the need for prior experience in beta testing.

This is a clear move by Magnussoft showing they want to test everything as much and as widely as possible. Beta applications (submitted by devs) will also be tested by other devs, not only users, thus increasing the range of testing such an app will receive. You can apply by filling out this form.

In order to make this available, ZETA-OS also launched a new feature for their Download Section. Now anyone who is registered at the site can upload their own files, up to 32MB. This is a good way for (as mentioned above) devs to show their work, for example. All uploads will be hosted in the ZETA-OS server, which will help eliminate dead links. Also, the uploads can have a screenshot attached and will be reviewed, checked and tested by ZETA-OS, to make sure it's usable. One important note is that the uploaded files don't have to be ZETA-specific, they can be for R5 or Haiku as well.

Good move(s) by Magnussoft, hopefully the increased beta testers base will help them in making ZETA-OS better than ever.

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Magnussoft, over at their ZETA-OS site has announced that the upcoming ZETA 1.21 has been delayed by a month, and will now see its release by the end of July. But fear not because their reason is a good one: to bring you a better product. Their main focus for this delay is to improve the driver situation and also the browser situation (by the way, big improvements have been recently made to both Seamonkey and Firefox).

According to the announcement, in the coming days they'll be releasing more details concerning ZETA 1.21, so stay tuned!

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Krobi from the news site Power Dreams shot me an e-mail about an interview they did with Rene Weinert, PR Manager from Magnussoft. It's an interesting read and you can see that Magnussoft have abandoned the OpenOffice port and went with a 3rd party office suite, though which isn't revealed at this time.

Also, the main focus for Magnussoft Zeta 1.21 is bug fixes and driver improvements, which is natural since it hasn't been long since they took over the development. Another point of interest is that the development team will be a "separate entity" from Magnussoft.

So head over and start your reading glasses. You can catch the english version here and the german (original) version here.

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ZETA-OS has announced today the opening of their brand new community forums. Open to anyone and everyone to discuss ZETA, ask questions, help others and ask for help. It's likely that these will eventually take over the yellowTAB.com forums in being the number 1 place for ZETA users talk. So head over, register (it's free of course) and start discussing.

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