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BeOS Ready for a Comeback as Zeta OS
Anil Kandangath writes "BeOS, the operating system that could have been the foundation for Mac OS X, but almost died, instead has returned as Zeta OS -- which is supposed to be fast, stable, media centric and boot within 15 seconds. Zeta is being released by yellowTAB of Germany and has applications such as an office suite and the Firefox browser bundled with it. Most BeOS applications will also run as-is. Screenshots are available." According to the NewsForge story linked there, the release could be as soon as next month.
Not to be a dick, but this is old news. I have a pirated ISO of the OS, I've been aware of it for a while, and I'm sure many of you guys have too. It is kinda of dissapointed that its finally being slashdotted.
Funny. I thought the same thing too. The screenshots show the zeta in lowercase just like the symbol zoophiles use. Uncanny. If the logo was in uppercase, that would be a different story. Truth told, it is difficult to come up with a name that cannot be distorted somehow.
no mac in the friggen world boots in 17 seconds. i love my macs, but i'm not that delusional.
What distribution where you using? Who did you let compile your programs? I don't mean to start a flame war or anything, I have no interest in that, but you speak out of ignorance.
The first mistake you've made, I've pointed out. You compared apples to oranges. The second misconception is that a working linux distribution is the same thing as windows with different features (preloading at startup, etc...). You cannot expect a linux distro to behave like windows, it's simply silly. First off, I'd hate to see these things built into my distribution. If you want preloading, activate your preloading, there's no one to stop you, and you can't convince me that it can't be done. Second, you don't like KDE load time, use a different window/desktop managment toolset. There are plenty good, workable, flexible, simple, programs to go around. I can recommend fluxbox, as it's configuration steps are very strait forward (just save your menu as a text file). While I understand that this may sound a little low tech, this one is incredibaly easy to understand and fix up to your liking. All you'll need to do is give a menu item name, and the program that will run when that item is clicked. Now, the only reason I mention all of this is because of the load time you mentioned. Fluxbox appears instantainusly on my 450MHz AMD Compaq.
Just so you'd know, I'm not serious in my suggestion. I only hope that you understand that you are misinterperting what you think is an OS. An OS should provide an interface to managing your computer. The interface recieves user input, and activates the appropriate program to complete the task. If a program wants to preload itself in the background, there should be a program to handle that that is NOT part of the OS, and probably shouldn't be part of that program either. These programs usually come in a form of a deamon, or a service. That's all you need.
I think I edged him out as I was supporting a retail establishment running SCO Xenix on a PII. The vibe I get from my contact with that system (pre-lawsuit, post-Microsoft-ruins-unix-and-sells) was "I'm so sorry you want to run 'cat'. This advanced feature can be purchased for the low low price of..."
Hey!!! the parentheses are good for something