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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> 1. What the hell is up with the installer? I mean, not being able to pick source and target? Talk about dropping a really nice feature.
Agreed. Bernd said that he would add it to his new Installer, but in my opinion, any new code is prone to bugs. Personally, I would just drop the YTAB installer and use the much simpler and less involved old one, and just add to the old one the ability to select the language and tweak a few things that might need tweaking.
(and I didn't even mentioned to the article that the thumbnails of any application you have selected in the new Installer are just very badly resized, using "Smart Size" instead of Billinear or Bicubic resizing method, making them looking exceptionally ugly!)
> Also, I take it Drive Setup is gone, or at least been made such a weak duck that it won't let a sure resize or remove/create other types of partions?
No, Drive Setup is there. As it was before. The same Drive Setup as Be's. But Be's Drive Setup doesn't have the ability to edit flags/create partitions. And so doesn't Zeta's.