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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Good job on the review Eugenia. I completely agree with your conclusions regarding the direction that needs to be taken with this. I was attracted by BeOS's elegance and speed, and it sounds as if Yellow Tab is doing quite a bit of patchwork adding features etc. that aren't needed or wanted.
If they can focus on using the power of BeOS to take advantage of the latest hardware, who knows what it could do. Your report that it boots slower is very disturbing... Boot time is not everything but it sounds like you get nothing from this extra time (besides more fonts!).
Lets hope YellowTab gets the bugs worked out and keeps the focus on BeOS's founding principles.