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.

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Re:Well, yeah...

[Zillatron]

I got in a bit of a "my job sucks worse than yours" pissing contest with someone who was helping me with a problem at my dayjob a couple of years ago: He had to keep WindowsNT running on some big iron (I really wish my memory was good enough to tell you what kind.) He inherited the hardware from the former decision maker and was running mission-critical windows applications. He claimed that WinNT was the last version that would support mainframes. I'm stuck on dial-up at the moment but anyone who cares can check for themselves.

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..."