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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. Such a waste... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...of programming energy that could have been put to good use in writing that damn Linux ATIradeonX300 driver for my onboard card or for that Realtek ALC 861 sound chip I can't get to work with intel_hda_codec.

    But NO. They have to write a whole new OS (again) where another fvwm-forked WindowManager would have sufficed.

    1. Re:Such a waste... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 0, Troll
      Such a waste. All of that effort put into Linux desktops, when it could have been spent writing apps for BeOS.

      BeOS was usable on the desktop when Linux was just a little toy no one would think about using on a server, let alone a desktop.

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    2. Re:Such a waste... by Slashcrap · · Score: 0, Troll

      BeOS was usable on the desktop when Linux was just a little toy no one would think about using on a server, let alone a desktop.

      When the fuck was BeOS ever usable as a desktop?

      I tried it a number of times over the years on different hardware and it was never more than a fucking toy.

      So tell us all - what exactly did you use it for? Photoshop? Cubase? Oh no, those were never released because it was just a fucking toy.

      Let's face it - you used it to browse the net with the shitty builtin browser and laughed at the Haiku error messages generated when you tried to visit approximately 99% of the web sites in existence. And that's all you ever did.

      I don't hate people who advocate a particular OS just because they like it. I hate people who lie like you just have. Prick.

  2. source code? by hehzz · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does the yellowTAB has BeOS source code? If not - how did they made this release and how are they thinkinh continue Zeta? If they have the code - how did they get it?? Any ideas which P2P networks could have Zeta ISO? :)

  3. Re:Interesting Review by nuggetman · · Score: 0, Troll

    However, I noticed a few niggles

    The term is Neglo-American

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    ...and that's all there is to it.
  4. Re:Interesting Review by yobbo · · Score: -1, Troll

    So basically, before shipping a 1.0 release to paying customers, the developers didn't bother plugging a camera into a PC.

    Sounds like a hell of a company.

  5. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    this fails it so hard, I am looking at the screenshots, I do not see 3d window animations, I do not see scalable icons, I do not see transparancy effects... this operating system fails it and is dying, for the above mentioned reasons.

  6. Damn my eyes! by Gothmolly · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just clicked on the link, before I realized it was to OSNews! Gaaaa! I just gave that fat hag some page views. Damn, damn, damn.

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  7. Re:I gotta ask... by Eugenia+Loli · · Score: 0, Troll

    She is doing public relations. Who do you think submitted this article?

    Asshole.

  8. Re:I gotta ask... by chipster · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Asshole."
    Indeed I am, and a self-admitted one!

    Like I said, "...meaner than a dog shittin' tacks."

    Thanks for taking the bait and proving my point :) Now go back to eating your Gyros and Souvlaki.