Yellow Tab Hits RC3

*no comment* writes "The Carriers of the BeOS torch YellowTab, has hit RC3 in their latest update to what might have been BeOS 6. This runs at about $99 ($10 upgrade when final version is release), and has a long list of features, such as the included Gobe office suite. Don't forget to check out the recently updated screenshots."

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Cool

[moosesocks]

Pretty nifty.

For all the folks who were chanting for OS X on the PC, this might be the closest thing.

But seriously. I remember about 2 years ago, installing and running the last release of BeOS (the one which happily coexisted with win98).

There's something VERY cool about a modern operating system which boots to the desktop in 5 seconds. This was on an Athlon 750 w/ 128mb RAM.

Of course, there were a few hitches along the way. Namely, the networking support. I was on dial-up at the time, and there was a bug in the CHAP authentication thingy in BeOS. It eventually led me to ditch the OS, but it will always remain in my heart as the coolest OS i'd ever used. The GUI was clean and simple, it had all of the 'good bits' of the Mac UI in it. It beat the heck out of Mac OS and Win9x at the time. Linux wasn't even an option at the time due to the ridiculous complexity (although I did nuke the Be partition* to install Debian which was even more short-lived then Be)

*And the windows partition. And the backup partition. And all of my files. Curse you buggy Debian Fdisk frontend!

Any idea why we haven't seen more software ported to Be? Is it not port-friendly or something?

Here we go again!

[Otter]

This runs at about $99 ($10 upgrade when final version is release), and has a long list of features, such as the included Gobe office suite.

Yup, that's the BeOS spirit, all right. Some extremely commendable technical accomplishment, and just too damn expensive to give a serious tryout without making a serious upfront investment.

Re:Here we go again!

[Cecil]

Yeah, and charging money for a release candidate without even offering a free upgrade to the real version when it's ready? How's that for repaying the people who are ostensibly your beta testers.

This sounded interesting, until I saw their pricing practices.

Windows replacement?

[NewWazoo]

One of the nice things about Linux as a replacement for Windows (in my case) is the rich suite of applications available. I can do all the development I require (MCU and FPGA, among other things) in such an environment, and the software for which there's no functional replacement generally runs under WINE (with a working windows partition for dlls and such). I'm even generally more productive under Linux to boot - if it weren't for the abysmal user interfaces available, I'd use it exclusively (note: KDE is Getting There, and quickly).

What about BeOS/et. al? Can I run all that GNU software? Is there a windows emulator so I can be 100% happy and still get to use Winamp5 and Trillian Pro (without which I CANNOT LIVE :] ).

Please, someone, say yes; until OS X is available for x86, BeOS seems like the most useable thing going...

B

Re:Windows replacement?

[burns210]

Yes, you can leave windows and still run every Windows program you want, have it look like Windows, and even upload your password and user account preferences to ease migration... o, wait..

This is BeOS, not Windows. You don't run Winamp5 for Windows on a machine that doesn't have Windows installed. Why do you need "winamp5" specifically, when player X is just as capable? Because it is different, you don't want to change? Then why leave Windows for a new OS.

When you leave Windows and migrate to a new OS, things change. You find replacement applications, software and utilities to fill the holes you have. You don't get to keep everything Windows, and pick and choose what you don't want. Life doesn't work like that, and Zeta, Linux and Mac should not cater to that market. People like that don't want to switch, because they don't want to leave Windows.

Re:Windows replacement?

[MrHanky]

I'm even generally more productive under Linux to boot - if it weren't for the abysmal user interfaces available, I'd use it exclusively (note: KDE is Getting There, and quickly).

Interesting. How can you be more productive if the user interface is so terrible?

Not that I actually believe you. What does the user interface in Windows do, that KDE can't? Not much. Nothing that I can remember. But please remind me.

(Writing this from OSX, which is good, but lacked some important things that I could do easily in KDE, before Panther came with Exposé.)