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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Granted its just a beta, but from what I've read and heard Zeta is going in the opposite direction from the way I would like to see BeOS progress. I also thought this of the leaked Dano .. more features, fewer fixes. I wish they would dump the themeing engine, I wish they would adopt Freetype as the default font renderer, I wish they wouldn't throw Dockbert in there by default.
I hope none of this is the case for Zeta R1 Final. YellowTab, take head, in the opinion of many BeOS enthusiasts Zeta should be an R5 with more drivers, an updated networking stack and tons of fixes ... nothing more. I for one would be perfectly satisfied if that's all Zeta was.