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Ars Technica on Zeta 1.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the obscurity-through-obscurity dept.

Quantrell writes "Ars Technica has posted an extremely in-depth review of Zeta 1.0 (/. saw another shorter review a month ago, but this new one is worth a look by anyone into things Be). Looking at the state of the OS more closely, it looks like it has a long way to go, maybe too long. Also, the author (rightly, IMO) raises the issue of whether or not Zeta will see success in the face of open source projects like Haiku. Is there anything but a hobby going on here?"

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  1. Do they have legal access to the BeOS source code? by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There has been some speculation in the past that yellowTab does not have legal access, if any access at all, to the BeOS source code. They apparently wouldn't confirm nor deny that when asked. Has the situation changed recently? Have they made a final statement about their possession of said source code?

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  2. Sounds good, but... by j_cavera · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can we hear from someone who has used a BeOS or derivative for more than the 1 week, I'll-use-it then-write-a-review-about-it period? While I'm as willing as the next guy to try out a new OS, I'm not going to play early adopter potentially burn up a perfectly good machine with an install that renders it only marginally usable.

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  3. Re:Why? by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do open source advocates ask this question? Do you have a problem with people having a broader choice?

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  4. HobbyTown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Is there anything but a hobby going on here?""

    Isn't the majority of OSS a "scratch an itch" hobby?

  5. I think you mean... by wernst · · Score: 2, Insightful
    One employee lost a whole project due to Zeta corrupting our filestore.

    You mean one employee lost a whole project due to his inability to make regular backups, I think.

    This reeks of a FUD post...

  6. Sony should have bought Be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sony is in a spiralling decline and it's not at all clear how they will be able to break out from it. The changing nature of the music industry has caught them cold, and the feauding-warlord nature of their company structure prevents them from making an effective response to the changing nature of music systems and even DVD players (their players offer less features for rival formats to DVD whereas the cheap knockoffs tend to have everything).

    Sony were working with Be some years ago and there was speculation that they would buy them. They should have done. They could have had an OS that was ready-to-go on the desktop, easily ported to embedded systems, and all of the engineering team, and a company that size could have kept it ticking along lying in wait for the right opportunity to reach out and grab a sector of business.

  7. Re:Why? by gothfox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BeOS was always a single-user operating system, and ZETA appears to be the same... That, in and of itself, is sufficient reason to completely ignore ZETA

    Naah. The reason to ignore Zeta is that it's an obscure and incompatible proprietary platform that doesn't have any market share and will never have. They aim for consumer desktops, so multiple users are not really needed anyway.

    One of my biggest complaints about Windows is that it is derived from a single user operating system

    No modern Windows is derived from a single user operating system. You don't know what you are talking about, lookup Windows NT.

    The problem with single user is with support for remote applications, e.g. running a thin client...

    Wow. Just wow. The depth of your knowledge of Windows platform is astounding.