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 also thought this of the leaked Dano .. more features, fewer fixes.
Dano was never finished. This is why it didn't have the fixes you wanted to see. As for more features, it was natural for Be to develop them, as Dano was supposed to be R6.
> I wish they would dump the themeing engine
No, that wouldn't be wise. The theme engine is there, it works and it was one of the points users were asking during the R5 days.
I agree about adopting Freetype and Fontconfig though. Dockbert shouldn't be there either, because duplication is a bad thing on any OS.