Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Dec 2002 16:33 UTC, submitted by George N
Nowadays, all you hear about is Windows, MacOS X, or GNU/Linux. However, what ever happened to the good old BeOS?
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These projects are making impressive headway. A legal 'R6'-like BeOS named Zeta from yellowTAB will be making a public RC1 appearance very shortly.
This will help bridge gaps for other distros with more ambitious goals, such as OpenBeOS or B.E.OS. The BeOS community is well into the thousands by my estimates (at least as of September when I did a poll of PhOS users via in-built mechanisms.. I receieved 5000-ish responses-duplicated not possible).
Thing is, we have no way to really advertise or market Zeta at this time, we must wait until we can get the product in a near-final stage (very soon, we are at Beta3) and then the reviewers get copies. Eugenia would have received one too, but as far as how that will work out after her publicly disgracing comments, I do not know.
BeOS is slowly making a come back, you can feel the life in the BeShare servers boasting many many more numbers now than at any time when Be, INC was still around. Just look at how much money was raised to buy the BeOS Gobe Productive 3 source code! We hit $10,000 in a mere 3 days!
All in all, this next year is going to be awesome!