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First Look at YellowTAB's Zeta
Gentu writes "Great news for the BeOS fans. After Be sold its IP to Palm, many said that the BeOS was no more, but a new startup company from Germany, YellowTAB, was able to get hold of Be's source code and form the future of the never-released BeOS 6 ('Dano'), under the name 'Zeta'. YellowTAB added a lot of new goodies to the OS and brought it up to speed. OSNews features the first ever preview of Zeta with a lot of good information, along with some screenshots."
Redhat announced tday it would skip the 9.0 release and go right to 9.1
If it's a Eugenia Loli-Queru review it can be boiled down to this: "It's not BeOS. It sucks."
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All my friends and family use Linux 9.0, and now, Linux 9.1 is even better!
Mandrake dropped automatic detection of ISA cards for a good reason: ISA sucks. There, I said it. ISA sucks big fat hairy moose cock.
Join the 1990's!
...and /.
We have upgraded our webspace from 500MB to 1000MB and traffic allowance from 25GB to 50GB. This is the largest package that our host provides. In order to be able to add more features and functions to our site (especially for developers) we will soon have our very own server.
I think you might need to up your traffic allowance once again.. BAM!
And they've just zombified it in their pagan voodoo kitchen. I can just hear the start-up sound:
"Braaaaiiiiiiinnsss!"
BeOS fanboys of course.
I was never able to use BeOS on my 'puters, since none of my graphics were supported
Ditto. The best my graphics card would do was black and white at either 320x200 or 640x480. I forgot which. It was horrible and certainly turned me off to BeOS. I don't recall which graphics card I was using at the time to test BeOS 5, but it was a very common one (GeForce256 or Matrox Millennium).
So, Be fans, what makes BeOS so special?
Maybe the stunning lack of applications and poor hardware support gave some old Amiga fanboys a new hope? :-)
You're telling me I have to pay for my operating system??
I don't run proprietary closed source operating systems.
Whoop-de-fucking-doo...
Go back to using Linux then! Most people are comfortable using closed-source operating systems & applications.
I've been swashdotted -- Elmer Fudd
SCO declares that YellowTABs OS "BeOS" is infringing on SCOs IP. According to SCOs CEO Darl McBride: "We ran the BeOS through a machine code debugger and found sections of 10-15 instructions that are the same as those used in our product." SCO says that people need to stop using the new BeOS or face lawsuits.
Darl McBride also said that if YellowTAB were to buy a larger license, like the Entire-SCO-Company "license", the problem may disappear. When asked how a fledgling startup company like YellowTAB could buy SCO, McBride replied: "Right now even a few dollars is better than a counter lawsuit, besides I have my golden parchute. Hahah. Wait, is that tape still recodi...."
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Yeah, we all love the idea of open Beos...
But maybe there's at least 10 or 15 lines that look vaguely like some code SCO that probably took from BSD in the first place.
I wonder how much SCO could extort from the Beos community? Gotta be at least $3.
Alan.
Oh "understanding what a replicant is" is easy once you administer the Voit Kamph test...
And which dead replicants show up, anyhow? Zora and Priss?
No wonder you had trouble running Lunix from your hard drive... did you run into difficulties attaching your MOS 6510 to your motherboard?
Probably something to do with a long held hope that one day it will rise again and achieve it's true place in history. I believe they are into that sort of stuff in Germany.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
The failure of BeOS as a mainstream operating system is attributable to 2 missing pieces:
- a superior package management tool, such as apt-get.
- visual basic, an essential requirement for any serious fortune 500 company.
it could also be argued that jean-louis basse as a leader was seriously at a loss to compete with the likes of the uncompromisingly ambitious bill gates, the eccentric marketing genius of steve jobs, or the laughable irrelevance and sheer disregard for personal hygiene of richard stallman.
Who still cares about BeOS?
Who still cares about, say, MacOS? I was never able to use MacOS on my 'puters, since none of my hardware was supported, and, once I started using Windows, I never looked back. So what makes MacOS so special?
Well, you get the idea. This question seems to come up at every BeOS (and Amiga, come to that) article, but I never bother to ask the question on every Apple article, even though it applies just as much to me.
As to graphics hardware not being supported, I guess this is sadly a problem with all non Windows OSs (eg, several Linux distributions I've tried have all had trouble with my graphics card - sort of working, but displaying flickering pixels).
I like the way that BeOS is extremely good at recognising the hardware it does support - it seems to install the drivers it needs transparently and quickly. It doesn't throw a wobbly and spend ages reinstalling stuff when I upgrade the motherboard.
some mention of why Be is better than Windows/Linux/BSD/sex/God.
Actually since I met Eugenia at a party one night she has taken sex out of that list.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Oops... attributed her with an excuse she didn't have.
Guess she's just dense.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
It's Eugenia Loli-Queru! For years now, new distributions have been reviewed on OSNews, a story gets posted to Slashdot, and one of the first comments is that 'Eugenia hates anything that isn't BeOS'. But now we have an official BeOS, or as close as possible, reviewed on her site and she still runs through a long list of complaints. Which seems to demonstrate that she's not that biased after all.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
I used to code for BeOS : the API was stunningly easy to learn.
... And not without humour. I remember a function named isProcessorOnFire(). There was a quite detailed description of when it would return true in the API-reference. Apparantly, smoke coming from the processor was not enough to warrant a return-value of true. :)
"Non rectangular window support."
Now that would be interesting, round windows. Would be difficult to read text in lol.
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
I know!
AmigaOS! That OS is the poster-child for zombie OS'es! And now BeOS will join it. A few people will attempt to drag it's lifeless corpse around in hopes of reviving it but not have the drive, skill or money to make it happen. It'll keep going on and on in limbo.
Too bad. This was a clever OS (Amiga and Be).
-- What's this '-r *' file doing here? -- Oh well, a simple 'rm' should do the trick.
Other than that, the first boot in this beta version of Zeta greets you with two dead replicants Good to see Decker is still taking out the trash.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.