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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."
Why should they? There's ZERO financial incentive for them to do so, and it may even be a business liability if they did open up their source code.
I understand you "everything should be free because I have to spend my last dime on hentai DVDS" linux fanbois want the world handed to you on a silver platter...but let me be the first to tell you that in the real world, that shit just don't fly!
Who still cares about BeOS?
The reviewer, Eugenia Loli-Queru. She is just about the most vocal and annoying Be fan on the internet. OSNews started as her soapbox for Be, and she cannot help but interject in *every* review that she writes, some mention of why Be is better than Windows/Linux/BSD/sex/God.
I shudder to think what the text of the review is like, now that she's writing about the supposed BeOS 6.
Didn't want to waste my perfectly good karma, but well...
I don't have anything against Eugenia, but her reviews are only good if all you care about is eye candy and rounded windows. From a technical standpoint, they are completely worthless. She's a web designer, and it surely shows in her way of reveiwing. Personally, I don't give a flying fuck if the Zeta logo is ugly... I tend to care about performance and stability. And no, saying that it boots in 23 seconds in her fabled dual 533 celeron is not a good benchmark.
I do read her reviews, mainly to see the snapshots... If I want a good technical review, I won't go get it from OSNews (nor from /. for that matter). It's a bit like reading Roblimo's articles... from a technical viewpoint they're worthless, but they're sometimes fun... that's it