Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

BeOS Lives on in the Form of Zeta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rise-from-the-ashes dept.

DgtlDivide writes "BeOS, one of the pinnacle examples of something really good that died far before it should have, is apparently not quite dead yet. BeOS has continued to captivate a large and devoted community. The Haiku project is working on an Open Source version of the OS and now out of Germany comes Yellowtab's Zeta, a continuation of an unreleased development version of BeOS code-named "Dano." Is Zeta worth the price? Will Yellowtab raise BeOS from the ashes and inflame public interest in the OS?"

8 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. BeOS: "I don't want to go on the cart!" by TheLoneIguana · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I feel happy! I feel happy!"

  2. slashdot by eobanb · · Score: 5, Funny

    news for nerds, stuff from like, a year ago.

    --

    Take off every sig. For great justice.

  3. And the ewoks sing by HishamMuhammad · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Dupe dupe! Eee chop, Dupe dupe!
    Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
    Yah wah! Eee chop, yah wah!
    Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah...." (rest goes like the Ewok song)

    And so the new Slashdot theme song is born.

    Rejoice!

    --
    The filesystem is the package manager
  4. Not Dead, Not Dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    BSD is not dead!

    Oh... err... we were talking about something else not being dead yet?

  5. The Days of Our Lives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    " Is Zeta worth the price? Will Yellowtab raise BeOS from the ashes and inflame public interest in the OS?"

    Could you make it sound anymore like a soap opera?

    Are we supposed to be transfixed?

    BeOS the Indiana Jones of OSes. Stay tuned for the next episode when Oedipus finds out he's been doing his mom.

  6. The Haiku Project... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Does this mean that the sourcecode will be rewritten in haiku form?
    /*
      * Mempointer far null

      * Size T chunksize lots,
      * far allocated size.
      */
    memptr far = NULL;
    size_t chunksize = LOTS;
    far = malloc(chunksize);


    Or is it just the system messages that will be rewritten?

    Fatal error. All data
    have disappeared. Screen. Mind.
    Both are blank.
  7. Re:Buy to Try by sonicattack · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] and costs nearly $100 to boot?

    Boot manager menu (please type in credit card number and expiry date, then press listed key to boot):

    F1 Windows XP ($10)
    F2 Debian Sarge ($1)
    F3 Zeta ($100)

    Money will be drawn from your account upon successful boot. Reboot due to system crash within 3 minutes comes FREE OF CHARGE (Only applies to key F1)

  8. Will Yellowtab raise BeOS from the ashes by Gax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will Yellowtab raise BeOS from the ashes and inflame public interest in the OS?

    Magic-8 says "Don't bet on it".