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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Jul 2005 02:20 UTC, submitted by gireesh

YellowTAB released a Zeta 1.0 LiveCD and they are charging just 10 Euros for it. If you return it you get a 5 Euro discount toward the normal CD version of 1.0.

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Zeta open-source

by on Sat 30th Jul 2005 15:15 UTC

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Wasn't Zeta supposed to be open-sourced by now? I don't see any info or links on their website yet. YellowTAB has been saying that for over a year and accepting contributions under the assumption that Zeta is going to be open-sourced by early 2005. What happened?

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RE: Zeta open-source

by MadDwarf on Sat 30th Jul 2005 15:19 in reply to "Zeta open-source"

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From: http://www.yellowtab.com/support/faqs/show.php?id=5

Why isn't ZETA Open Source?

At this time the core of the OS is based on proprietary code that we cannot legally share.
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What is ZETA based on?

ZETA is based on the Be Operating System originally developed by Be, Inc. and now owned by PalmSource. The BeOS was developed from the ground up for multimedia applications and has a microkernel, a multithreaded 64 bit filesystem and completely object-oriented API for rapid software development.
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I couldn't see any more than that on Yellowtab.com

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RE: Zeta open-source

by Ronald Vos on Sun 31st Jul 2005 15:11 in reply to "Zeta open-source"

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Wasn't Zeta supposed to be open-sourced by now?

Where does this weird rumor even come from? Surely it doesn't have a base in reality, as it would be suicide for YT to do so.

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