Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 2nd Jun 2003 06:10 UTC
No, BeOS is not dead as many will speed to the forums and proclaim. YellowTAB's Zeta is the true inheritor of BeOS 5's fortune, as it is based directly on Dano/EXP's codeline (which was supposed to be BeOS 6 but was never finished as Be sold its IP to Palm). At last, I got my hands on Zeta Beta-5a, and here is what I found and think of it so far. You might need to have some experience with BeOS in order to follow this article, but screenshots are included to make it easier for everyone.
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I actually liked Dockbert a lot. I could use my Deskbar to keep track of windows and such, but Dockbert looks much better and has a nifty "CPU-usage" feature. It was also something i could keep on the side and launch favorite apps with. Not quite as space-hogging as the Dock, too, and has a few nifty graphical effects.
Also, I must say I liked the BeOS Terminal better than any of the Linux ones. I could configure it to be green text on black with spiffy no-background selection, as I like the readability better that way.
The /dev directory, implemeneted for POSIX compliance I think, was brain-dead. A UNIX/Linux like naming scheme would be better. Come on, /dev/disk/ide/ata/0_0/? better /dev/hda.