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 don't understand how you can say that when Zeta is there and it boots and it works, while OpenBeOS' doesn't. The only thing that Zeta doesn't have is the OSS way of doing development and the excitement of creating new stuff and becoming a "hero". But what Zeta does have is a codeline and a product that it is working with a great inheritance.
As an old BeOS user, I much prefer a company to offer me something that is inheritent from BeOS and it WORKS, instead of something that MIGHT work in 5-7 years from now. As a user, I need a computer now, not in a decade.
Didn't you learn anything from the Be experience? With closed-source applications you always have the risk of the company dying and taking your application with it, rendering all the time you invested in learning that application useless. If Be couldn't make BeOS fly, what makes you think these guys will? It's pretty clear they're not half the company Be was.