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Zeta Goes Gold
*no comment* writes "Be lives! yellowTAB has announced it's 1.0 release of Zeta has gone Gold and has sent it off to production. The word is that in about 2 weeks, you can have your hands on the latest version of this BeOS derivative."
The supported hardware list seems to indicate that at least one common laptop maker may not be supported very well (supported inspiron 3200, partially supported LS L400, no other details). Hopefully as they get bigger, they'll be able to devote time and resources needed to get running on some of the newer laptops coming out ...
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Hardware requirements
Minimal Requirements:
Pentium 200MHz (or Cyrix, Athlon, Via...)
32 MB RAM
600 MB Hard Disk Space
8 MB Video Memory
bootable CD-ROM Drive
Mouse, Keyboard, 14" Color Monitor
Recommended Hardware:
Intel Pentium III 1 GHz (Celeron, AMD Athlon Duron/XP)
256 MB RAM
4 GB Hard Disk Space
32 MB Video Memory
Soundcard
CD/DVD Drive
Mouse, Keyboard, 17" Color Monitor
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Man I wish Be hadn't died. Now THAT was a hell of a desktop OS. Dead simple install, simple UI with a lot unixy power under the hood. Booted super fast. Did things on 1995 hardware that other OS's couldn't do as well until 1999-2000 hardware came around.
:(
The only downside was app support. If they were still around and had anywhere near the support that Linux does, I'd be back with them in a heartbeat.
Sad.
Check OSNews.com. There were many reviews of the betas posted there. Some were positive, but some were also quite negative.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
linky to screenshots.
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there's a whole bunch of screenshots here: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=223&slide=1
it pretty much looks like BeOS did, big surprise there, eh?
1. It's an alternative to Windows. 2. It brings extreme multimedia capabilities to the x86-based PC. 3. It features a heavily multithreaded microkernel and GUI that will inherently benefit from multicore and hyperthreading CPUs. 4. It provides a POSIX layer that allows UNIX, Linux and *BSD applications to be ported with ease. And that's just a small sampling of the many reasons why you should care.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
As for their never commenting on it
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
http://www.openstep.se/jobs/
It is a NeXTSTEP 3.0 demo Steve Jobs gave 1992 (previously covered on /.). It looks almost like my Panther version of Mac OS X in 2005! When I first saw it I was even more pissed of at Bill Gates who I see responsible for depriving us of OS advancement through MSs monopoly actions :(
1992! Argh (faints ...)
In Germany you can buy Zeta for several years in homeshopping channels as "alternative for windows". They sold even the Betas without mentioning the beta status. The price: 100 Euro.
Look for details here.
Haiku-os is another Be derivative. "The goal of Haiku R1 is to be source- and binary-compatible with BeOS R5."
Now, will Haiku and Zeta be compatible in any way?
http://haiku-os.org/learn.phpWill be apps.
/.'ed -- http://www.yellowtab.com/phorum/ .
There is a limited application set, the development of which is rather difficult in nature. If you read their forums, many of the users that have supported Zeta during its slow development binter and banter back and forth about what they want, and what they are getting.
Linux users get the same way, perhaps not as vehemont as Zeta followers do, but they do.
The problem is going to be finding developers that are willing to develop in that envoirnment. I believe that C++ is the only language for which you can use to develop in Zeta. The lack of language variety is going to make getting developers difficult, and a rather centric group of developers will build the OS, giving it a rathe r lop-sided or narrow build.
At the current time however, their forums are being
It looks nice, it may work beautifully, but the limited application set sort of deters me from wanting to use it.
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
I installed BeOS about 6 months ago as part of a open source dataabase testing project. See www.genezzo.com. It was really cool. BeOS is worth spending time on. It's is a very different database philosophy, and it's one that should have a future. I vowed to spend more time with it on a newer PC, maybe using Zeta or Haiku implementations. The Zeta people have been hard at work now for years. It's great to see a golden master from these guys. I'll be buying a copy.
1. BeOS was not a multi-user system. This, in my opinion, is the critical technical issue that killed BeOS.
2. NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP already had important developers on the platform (like Adobe, Aldus, etc.) in markets that were critical to Apple's user base. The only really cool application I remember seeing running on BeOS from a major company was Steinberg's Nuendo.
3. The NeXT system had a proven track record of success in heavy-duty custom application development, thanks to the superior development tools (Interface Builder, etc.) and development toolkits (WebObjects, etc.). Be had no equivalence here.
4. This is not really an issue of OS quality, but OpenSTEP did not compete directly against Microsoft products. In fact, OpenSTEP ran *on* Windows NT (as well as Solaris). Be's attempt to break Microsoft's stranglehold on hardware OEM's caused Microsoft to leverage their monopoly to wither any such deals.
5. The selection of NeXT rather than Be allowed Apple to leverage their experiences with MkLinux and the knowledge base of all the *NIX developers in the world. Going with Be would not have provided this opportunity.
6. Steve Jobs (There is no Rule Six). Granted, I would have like to see Gasse/Sakoman/etc. back at Apple, but I'd rather have Jobs.
It's the scheduler. BeOS was entirely written as a desktop multimedia OS. No concerns for versatility, fitting into embedded or server space, or backwards compatibility. That's why it's so responsive, and that's why it's still the best multimedia OS around, even though it hasn't been updated much since about 1993. It's like the ck patchset for linux on steroids, and with the whole OS written to support it.
I am trolling