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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>you complained about Zeta being slow.
No. The *booting time* was slow. The usability is the same as Dano's (which is *a bit* slower than BeOS 5 *naturally* because of all the theming stuff etc). As for the BeZilla stuff, it is slow on BeOS as well, not just on Zeta.
>Did you feel that you were using BeOS, or did it feel like something new?
Felt like BeOS Dano, with some additions, but these additions didn't always worked well (e.g. Tracker would crash when changing settings of the SVG icon size)
>It did seem from the review that zeta tries to be another Linux distro.
It certainly has this feel here and there. However, if YTAB *learn* from this preview and fix some bugs, then this IS a product to be in your purchase list. Definately.