Hell was already frozen anyway, but apparantly, the SkyOS team is trying to bring hell's temperature to absolute zero, since they are saying 2007 might see a release of SkyOS 5. "After what seems about 30 years worth of work (I'm sure even more to Robert), SkyOS will finally be released to the public. Lots of details are still being worked out on this one (as well as the obvious issues still present in the system), but we're really shooting to make it happen."
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first of all, if you pay for the beta, you pay for the final product as well. It's not like you will have to pay extra for the final release as well.
and device drivers are definately not the thing they should focus on most. What use is an OS that has a shitload of drivers but is very buggy and featureless...
And have you heard of any os that tries to get 3D drivers from the beginning? Look at how much difficulty the linux community has to get decent 3d drivers and then think again.
I do agree that there should be more networkdrivers but this will probably come once skyos gets near release.
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Even though SkyOS is supposed to be a commercial OS I agree with not charging people to test a company's software, at least not with a time limited license such as for 30 days. After all I've never had to pay to evaluate SUSE Linux from Novell or even Windows Vista from Microsoft. Most companies offer some sort of trial period which is usually 30 to 90 days for an OS. The developer of SkyOS on the other hand wants consumers to believe it's normal to charge someone to test a company's software. If the fee is for developers of third party commercial products to have a commercial license to run the OS with out a time limit then that would be more acceptable.
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They aren't really charging you for the right to test the OS, haven't you read any of the comments here or on their site? You pay now, you will get all the updates _and_ the final SkyOS when it is released without having to pay anything anymore. It will cost a lot more when it is actually released, so it is a good deal. Also, why whine about it? It is still under development, so it is not even worth creating a proper evaluation version either. It is meant for OS enthusiasts and developers at the moment.
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Another beta release that you have to pay money for the privilege of testing??!! What a racket. This guy suckers people into paying him money to test his software. That's great salesmanship but lately that's all I see or hear regarding SkyOS. I've been hearing "it's almost finished" for over 3 years now. It's almost as bad as AmigaOS4, but at least Hyperion finally delivered on their promise and released OS4 and didn't make their beta testers pay for the "privilege of testing".
It's also suffering from a terminal case of "creeping feature-itis". So many things are constantly being added/changed that it'll never be released/finished. The focus should be on device drivers, especially 3D accelerated video and network adapters.