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 agree with Eugenia about Dockbert.
I still have no idea why they've included it in Tracker.
It duplicates functionality of Deskbar, and it's fugly, IMHO.
Also, I can't speak for Zeta, but when I installed OT that has Dockbert included, you can't turn it off if you don't like it. Only option is to make it autohide.
I have SVG Tracker, and it is OK, but prone to crashes. Restoring Tracker helps, but hope YT will make it more stable. Also, I hope they automated making of thumbnails, not thru Thumbnailer add-on like it is in SVG Tracker (leaked one).
Also one more thing. People use high resolutions. I'm on 1152x864. I need bigger Deskbar. For example, build in option to dispay bigger icons in Deskbar. Why have options to have bigger icons in Tracker when Deskbar remains tiny?
BTW, look at this realy nice mock-ups. Now, that is Deskbar that it would be great to have. Much better then Dock-look-a-like Dockbert.
http://www.webhost-free.com/beadingo/guis/OBOS_UI_v2_3_1_a.gif
And Eugenia is right about Mozilla/Phenix. I'm too on dual Celereon 550Mhz, and Mozilla is slow. Usable, but slow. I made Net+ theme for it to look like BeOS app, but it surely doesn't feel like one. And it's memory hog.58 megs of ram are eaten by this beast.
And finaly, Eugenia didn't tell much about compatibility list. A lot of time passed since R5. Huge loads of new hardware apeared. I'm talking about loads of integrated audio/video chipsets and "softer then softomodem" modems (like AMR ones). I'm sure hardware compatibility problems will be much, much bigger now with Zeta then I had with r4, for example.