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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> Back in the day, the BeOS was competing against an unstable and partially unadopted Windows, a Mac OS that had a pretty sad underlying structure, and a Linux without a decent desktop interface. Now we've got a rock-solid Windows and Mac OS, both of which do thousands of things the BeOS never dreamt of, and a Linux community that it hard at work to bring Linux to the desktop. Our expectations have grown far higher. Sad as it is, the BeOS's capabilities simply haven't caught up.
Your whole comment was excellent Billy, as always, but the last paragraph really excels. It requires INNOVATION to be able to survive in today's OS world and captivate a market. Things are always getting tightier with time, not easier for OS companies/projects. Sad as it is for small groups...