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Zeta Goes Gold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the obscurantism dept.

*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."

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  1. Hardware Support Lacking by Vobbo · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. Re:Requirements? by nocomment · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  3. |Poor Be. by Fallingcow · · Score: 5, Informative

    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. :(

  4. Re:Screenshots? by nocomment · · Score: 4, Informative

    linky to screenshots.

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  5. Re:So there are... by bnitsua · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

  6. Reasons why you should care: by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  7. Re:Do they or do they not have the source legally? by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 4, Informative
    While they would never comment on it
    Not sure where you got that idea. I haven't been paying much attention to yellowTAB, but from what I've heard, including here on Slashdot, they bought a licence to BeOS just before Be was sold off to whatever company it was.

    As for their never commenting on it ... I suppose it'd be too much trouble to actually check their website.
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  8. Ab-so-fuckin-lutely by Udo+Schmitz · · Score: 5, Informative
    Check this out:

    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 ...)