The OpenBeOS folks published a new newsletter and includes some interesting readings like the “The “virtualdrive” driver” and the “System Logging”. For more BeOS reading, read the Technoids magazine, issue 4 (german only).
New OpenBeOS Newsletter
About The Author
Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
Follow me on Twitter @EugeniaLoli
I can’t read German.
I wish they would get the English version back.
Me too ….
Mainly cause, just like you, i can’t stand a word of german, and second cause i was used to translate it in french … and because of that, it’s actually no more the case
Thats a nice Newsletter.
But I hope, that the development of OBOS is “behind the scenes” really _a lot_ faster and more, then that, what I can see.
Hi Steve,
I do an anonymous CVS checkout about twice a week. Doing this gives you a good impression of what is going on; but still there is more going on than one could estimate from the number of CVS commits, as the transfer of one source file could easily be the result of some weeks of work (for example, View.cpp or Window.cpp are quite large and a lot of work, I think).
ATM the most commits are done in App/InterfaceKit, Prefs and Apps (mostly ShowImage), Media Kit (a lot of work on codecs) and StorageKit (mostly the UDF file system add-on). That’s what I remember from the last two or three checkouts and maybe I forgot something. So to stay updated, just do a checkout from time to time or subscribe to the cvs commit mailing list.
And do not forget that quite some work on OpenTracker is done by Axel Doerfler ATM (modularization and localization efforts), which is not OBOS sensu stricto but nevertheless an integral and important part of BeOS.
Hope that helps,
Finn