Star WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First Look at YellowTAB's Zeta
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 2nd Jun 2003 06:10 UTC
Zeta 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 and Bad
by Alan on Mon 2nd Jun 2003 07:36 UTC

I've played with Dano, Phos and use BeOS as my main OS, simply because it delivers most of what I want without the hassles I always seem to encounter with Windows.

I must admit that I got quite used to the way Dano did things, and missed them alot when I went back to plain old R5 (needed some apps that simply didn't behave under Dano). That the Font engine has gotten worse (It was way better under Phos) than the Dano original is shameful really, sorry and all of that, but it has to be one of the most used componants of an OS....

I truely hope Bone is fixed otherwise a whole lot of Dialup users of Zeta will likely be waiting until it is or be handing their copies back when they find out the worst...

All in all it's good to see that they are doing something, as their website has been awaiting for about a month now. I agree that it would be a good idea to have a central core of lads and lasses working on this, but time is money as the saying goes and programmers eat a lot of capital per head. So I guess that'll have to wait untill they start getting money back from Zeta R1.

RE the firewall issue, if its using Bone then you can install Snort (available at bebits) I don't know how good it is in the firewall sweepstakes but its better than nothing at all. That it wasn't included seems to me to be a very serious oversight on their part as Security on the internet are must haves and could be turned to a distinct marketing advantage.

And Finally Thanks for the review, I thought it a bit harsh re it's critism but I think that that is a case of each to their own and as I've not used it yet I can't really say more than that :-D

Good work Eugenia,
and well played the YT crew!