i wish... some new news about the linux version would appear

[Dazog]

Its AOL's choice not nullsoft's choice to GPL the code. just make sure you point your finger at the right people and or company not just the easiest.

And yes it IS being worked on. Give it time, The longer you wait the better it will be when its released for all of you linux peeps to play with

ok

[dopey]

Thats a shame really, cos if they could open source it, then it not only would have been released but another 5 updates woulda already prolly been done.

/me waits paitiently, grumbling aol sucks ass.

no doubt it would be cool.

If you guys need beta testers, then i would be more than glad to help, debian unstable user here.

I'm using Linux 2.4.20-k7: CPU Model: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ ° CPU Speed: 1600.693 MHz ° RAM Usage: 156/516M [||||||||||] ° DiskSpace: 139G with 46G Free ° Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 ° Number of process: 117 ° Uptime: 03:22:03 up 5 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.10

[ann-dee-roo]

Just rename to Winamp-0.a1-1.i386.rpm

[ann-dee-roo]

Oops, looks too big to post here. Just do a search for Winamp-0.a1-1.i386.rpm on the net and you should be able to find it.

[CraigF]

opensourceing wa3 would lead to nothing more than hundreds of forked versions. updates maybe, but it is being worked on, and updates are already there. they just arent public.

[skeenan]

Well, it's 17 days after the new year... Can we at least get a developer build released to the public? I'll take anything - just about anything will be better than the alpha

[dopey]

february 6th still nothing

[Wbdsgnr]

March 24th still nothing

[Plague]

patience is a virtue..

-Plague

[dopey]

Registered: Jul 2001
From: Sweden
patience is a virtue..

-Plague

Linux users must be the most virtuous people on this planet.. Nah make it universe.

Seriously tho all those holding out for something more up to date than wa3 alpha dont bother. They are scrapping 3 and going back to 2 with some shit form 3. basically forget it for linux, or wait another couple of years.

Either way, from the response about the linux version publicly over the time i started this thread till now. has been nearly nothing, which leads to the question of whats been done prolly not a lot. Only one person working on it. Brennan i think.

As nullsoft doesnt make money from winamp, ie from selling it, i dont understand why they cant open source it. If it had been open sourced not only would it have been ported but probably the bugs would have been fixed and work on the next revision would have been started. Look at the Openoffice.org and star office project look how its worked. Same thing could be done here key elements could be held back and made closed source all the rest open sourced (gpled) given to the streams of linux developers to look upon and work and no doubt u would have an excellent mp3 player by the end of it. Well your choice your decision with a heavy hand from aol no doubt but anyway. good luck with what ever u decide to develop. Shame what i thought would happen is happening.

Other thing how many winamp developers actually use linux day to day as a desktop. I wouldnt be surprised if none of them do.

[sanosuke]

winamp3 is still being developed, eventhough they are still working on winamp2.9.
a win32 port has higher prority than a linux port, although someone has clamed it works on wine.

winamp3 would not be open sourced, regardeless of how much u whine.

[Plague]

but it already is opensourced to about the level you requested.. there are some internal code, but really, most of the code is opensourced in the form of the sdk.
no, it's not possible to make a port to Linux from that, but that's not really the point..

Wa3 will not disapear, it's still beeing developed, and not only by one person..

So far, the only difference from before is that Christophe has joined the Wa2 team instead and they are now working on Wa2.9 and later on Wa5.. But other than that, the Wa3 team seems to be intact and development on Wa3 is continued as normal..

-Plague

[dopey]

my comment

Dont get me wrong originally when i heard about it i wasnt too bothered whether it be opensourced or not. But the problems they are facing right now with porting / bug hunting etc.., if they gave to the open source community would probably be quickly sorted out. Thats one of the areas the open source commuinty is very good at.

I know wa3 will not disappear and understand the windows version will always take priority. But its a solution they could possibly look into is all im saying which i doubt they would because of the aol element.

As far as linux situation as far as i know i think only brennan has been working hence the slow release time.

But its all cool whatever they do they do. At the end of the day its not like there is no mp3 players on linux there are shitloads, and all work well. wa3 would have been cool to have.


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[Plague]

it's still coming, but it might be a while before we can expect a beta or even an alpha..

-Plague

[ann-dee-roo]

Any chance of getting an second alpha? Surely enough work has been done since the first to warrant a second alpha.