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yellowTAB's Zeta 1.0 Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the obscurantism dept.

Provataki writes "OSNews' Thom Holwerda posted the first in-depth review of the recently released Zeta 1.0. He goes over installation, impressions, usage, application and hardware support, BFS queries and concludes that yellowTAB's Zeta is the deserving future of BeOS; plus, it's the only one based on the original source code by Be, Inc."

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  1. I gotta ask... by chipster · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Where the heck is Eugenia Loli-Queru during all this? Although when I see her name, I can't help but think of the quote;

    "You're meaner than a dog shittin' tacks"
  2. Re:Good by viktor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An OS that's not encumbered by the baggage of Unix or Windows is an OS that[...]

    So basically what you're saying is that Linux and Windows are the only operating systems we'll ever need, and that every operating system to come should be built as extensions to one of them?

    It's very ...slashdottish ("insightful", as the local lingua goes), but not very well thought through, is it?

    Exactly how do you mean that implementing an entire OS is like reinventing the wheel? An OS is a car, or a bicycle, or something else that uses a wheel. A wheel is a simple component. An OS is nothing of the sort, and I hope you agree with me on that after thinking some more about it.

    What you're saying is that we have both bicycles and cars that use wheels, and therefore everything that needs a wheel should be based either on a car or a bicycle.

    Inventing something new, like an airplane, is a waste of time since car manufacturers will not be able to build them, car drivers will not be able to drive them, and we risk making mistakes made when building cars.

    Just slap some wings on a car, that should do it! After all, bicycles and cars cover every possible future use of wheels, so everything that needs a wheel can be based on one of them.

    I do not share your simplistic idea that UNIX and Windows fulfil every operating system need to come and that they should be the base of everything. Contrary, I think that competition is good, and that implementing an entirely different OS is a good idea as both worlds will benefit from each other's ideas.