Submitted by YellowTAB has released a service pack for its Zeta operating system, bumping the version number to 1.1. This .pdf (in German, English version not (yet) available) describes the changes in a detailed fashion. In addition, “due to the unexpected amount of interest in yellowTAB’s VideoEditor, we have decided not to release a stand-alone ProVersion. Instead, the ProVersion and its many anxiously awaited features will be integrated into our Zeta DeluxeEdition release.”
Satisfied customers?
http://www.bedoper.com/bedoper
Im glad to see this.
And talking about Video Editors
check this one.
http://diva.mdk.org.pl/2005/09/01/beyond-the-soc-and-the-milky-way#…
Anyone want to translate that pdf?
Here is a .txt translated with bablefish of the .pdf
http://stud.ntnu.no/~mariusst/diverse/zeta1.1.txt
I didnt take the table of contents, just go to page three and compare with here:
* Soundcards
The AC97-Driver supports now much more cards
* Drives
Flashing of UI while accessing data has been removed
Improved SCSI support
Support for VIA SATA Controller VT6420/6421 added
Zeta can be booted from USB Drives now
Problems with formatting USB-Sticks fixed
*Graphics card
experimental driver VIA UNICHROME added
*Common/Desktop/Tracker/Menu
Desktop and directory context menu improvements
Gobe Productive document detection in the system improved
Radio Stations moved from Zeta menu to the Media Player
Mail Services improvements
Massive translation improvements
Japaneese (sorry if misspelled!) character input improved
Screensaver “Icons” improved and uses a new icon set
Tracker (can?) show more than 250 now
Symbols (Icons?) cannot overlap anymore
*InfoPopper
Uses system colors now
Standard size of the symbols is now 32 pixels
Layout problems fixed
IDarstellung (if it is a typo, then it means rendering) improved
*JABA Application
The interface has been (nearly) fully redesigned
VCD and SVCD creation now supported
DVDs (R-s) and images can be created now, too
Before writing disc type is now checked
Before writing the application will look for empty discs now
Burning status is now showed as a progress bar (editor’s note: see point one)
DVDs are burned only with the selected filesystem (editor’s note: and exclusively only to be 100% compliant with the original text)
The setup window on the first start is now non-resizable and the setup process can be canceled at any time
New, ZETA-similar icon/symbol set
Free space is now properly detected, no false positives any more
Radio buttons activation and deactivation now fixed, so that no invalid constellations are possible anymore
If no free discs found, the user is now asked about next steps instead of a plain cancel
Umlauts (editor’s note: äöüß, dunno about any other chars) are now properly shown in the project names if the project is reloaded
Too long paths are now shortened (editor’s note: in the UI I suppose)
* MediaConverter
Support for more data types
Massive fixes
* MediaPlayer
User can choose if more than one instance is allowed to be started
Playlist behavior improved
mp3 files on foreign filesystems can be played now, too
Translation improvements
Rendering of unsharp videos improved
Audio playback improved
UI improvements
MediaConverter integration
RadioStations moved from ZETA-menu to MP
Video playback also in vesa mode
Support for volume control over multimedia keyboards (I mean here those with extra buttons for volume control)
InfoPopper can now show files currently played
* Media Decoder
CinePack fully rewritten and produces more stable and better results
MPEG Videos playback improvements
*Improvements in misc applications
UI of the VCDStarter improved
Cortex localization and updated
ProcessController changes its localization as soon as system language has been modified
Beam supports HTML files
Beam supports address links from the browser
SoundRecorder’s UI improved
WindowsNetworks (WindowsNetzwerke) UI improved
The control (I mean the ===0===== one where you can move the 0) shows now proper values
3dmix localized
*Various system improvements
Support for following Wacom graphic tablets:
(see the list yourself – end of page 4)
DualCore support
Synaptics Touchpad support improved
Problems with reading CDDA strings fixed
Problems with several multi-cpu-systems fixed
The ===0====-widget fixed
Scanner support improved, more scanners supported now
More CPU types are now properly detected (supported? is ZETA x86 only?)
*Network
2 additional VIA Rhine II chips supported now
D-Link dfe-650 PCMCIA now supported
You can now set DHCP hostnames
Fixes with Windows shares
Broadcom WiFi support improved (no additional chips)
Error message on WLan failure
On WLan failure Zeta now tries all other available access points
Communication over unstable networks improved
Non-English (en: ASCII?) chars in Windows shares now properly parsed
Network (Netserver/Bone?) now starts faster
Status of DHCP and WiFi now shown in InfoPopper
Via Rhine driver improved and is now more stable
… sorry, the text is too long
The English version of the PDF is in the updater. However, you need R1 to install the updater, so…
* PE
German translation fixed
More place in the search text ctrl for non-english queries now
Proper letter width now standard
HTML tab now shown by standard now
*I will ignore the zeta settings part-it is fully cosmetic
*Printing system
Printing support via LPR improved
Support for foreign drivers added
Support for native drivers: HP, Epson, PCL 5/6c
HP Jet Direct as printer connection slot added (huh?
)
Printing to file added as printer connection slot
Brother HL 2040 and 2030 now supported
Faster printing and lower HDD and RAM performance requirements
Driver problems which lead to printer settings reset fixed
Problems while printing non-english characters fixed
*ShowImage:
Problems printing fixed
Won’t ask about saving the file if no changes were made
Modified file can be now saved without selecting a path (overwrites the original)
Before closing you will be now asked if you want to save modified files
*StyledEdit
Rendering problems with turned on autonewline fixed
lower RAM usage when autonewline off
StyledEdit switches to the tab instead of reopening already open files
*Vision IRC
Nickname settings improved
German localization fixed
Status messages while sending and recieving files are now shown via InfoPopper
*B-API (ill leave it out – in summary new methods added to existing classes)
I think that’s all, the list with the numbers is the list of fixed bugzilla bug IDs
Anyone tried the install yet. How does it go? Will it damage the existing installation?
Will I get a free Zeta CD for my translation now
will I will I *jump* *jump*
PR just released here :
http://www.yellowtab.com/news/article.php?id=163
Zeta is relentlessly improving, in spite of all the criticism, deserved or not, that has befallen yellowTab.
I think this effort deserve some positive consideration from the BeOS community.
Mario sayed
“Zeta is relentlessly improving, in spite of all the criticism, deserved or not”
Um, very much deserved.
The “Do they have code?”
Will always be the main concern to serious developers and users. It seems they are doing what most software houses do; their normal code updating and houses keeping.
Does that deserve an accolade?
You can get it from IsComputerOn:
http://www.iscomputeron.com/files/images/Articles/747/ZETA_1.1.pdf
DaaT
Also a couple of screenshots:
http://www.iscomputeron.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=…
DaaT
I can now imagine that the developmental tools they use to build this Zeta is not less horrible than the Microsoft one; I cannot imagine the developmental tools used to create this OS and its applications produce such amount of errors and bugs. These developmental tools better be called Bugging Tools!
They are copying the “Service Pack” name from MS. Maybe the quality are the same…
Why pay for another crap proprietary closed operating system which doesn’t have good programs ?
BeOS has no sense nowadays, except if it is opensource.
“BeOS has no sense nowadays, except if it is opensource.”
That is why I prefer Haiku.
It installed without issue and did in no way damage the OS.
However, I did need to reinstall my copy of MDR before that would work propperly again…
The update has sorted out many of the issues I had with R1.0, such as apps taking down the whole OS, especially net apps.
Came with Firefox 1.6 as well, which so far has worked flawlessly.
What is the status of Java on Zeta? For example, if you visit a website that has Java applets, with Firefox, how does it behave?
Bryan Varner and Andrew Bachman are the two I know of working on the Sun Java port for BeOS, and are officially recognized by Sun as the developers. If yT has the source code from way back when, they don’t have it with Sun’s blessing, and they aren’t likely to be as far along as Bryan and Andrew are, either.
Bryan and Andrew are doing this on their own time, without pay. They are, however, the most promising route at this time, and they had quite a bit that was done and able to show the results (but they could not and did not distribute binaries or source to anyone, per terms of NDA) they have thus far, though quite incomplete in a large number of things that need to exist to be blessed by Sun. If you wish to get the best status of the progress of the BeOS Java port, see Bryan Varner’s blog at http://bryan.varnernet.com/ to read about things.
Gee. Someone is well informed.
I know nothing about Zeta and Java. I do know something (har har) about BeOS and Java.
YellowTab has stated (well, Bernd has stated) “ve half our own people vorking on jawa” in at least one video-taped interview. To say this was a shock to me would be an understatement. At one time it was my understanding that YellowTab was going to be working with beunited.org in the java port. It is my impression that this was smoke and mirrors, and I’ve not seen anything concrete to back that up. Indeed, instead I see video of Bernd saying the opposite. I’d like to meet those people they have working on “jawa” I’ve got some questions I’d like to pick their brain on. I’d really like to know how much they’ve managed to get working. I find it odd that YT would claim to have java and never show a screenshot — they seem to like showing screenshots of their (multiple) media applications way before their finished…
If YellowTab does somehow have a hold of our source tree, it’s my understanding they would need to negotiate a license to see, modify, etc. the source from Sun. Without that, anything they do with it would put them on very, very shaky legal ground.
Even if the source did somehow leak, it’s functionality would be seriously limited compared to what’s sitting on my box at home. We’re constantly making improvements to the J2SE implementation as well as the HotSpot VM. Since the demo at WalterCon (where we hit the per team thread limit without crashing the VM) we’ve fixed several crashing bugs in HotSpot.
Andrew and I have been the most active (Andrew is a MACHINE!) on the port, but there are others who have contributed in the past, and we got a few new recruits recently that we’re hoping pull through.
Small little fixes here and there, but it does wonders on making the overall experience better. Customised folder icons in Deskbar menu, InfoPooper gives more information (anyone know how to customise time the popup is displayed???), better wireless support for shitty networks, better CIFS, the speed of drawing SVG icons seems much better, overall disk navigation feels, well, like BeOS (which is a good thing). These are things that I’ve noticed during the first hour of usage.
From the read me (also available in english as pointed out elsewhere), they’ve fixed the multiprocessor issue, RAID, USB and other issues, so this is a welcome update.
On the plus side, there are minor graphical touches placed here and there, which add to the overall polish and feel of Zeta. The graphical patch installer is charming to view. Good work. Now this is what R1 shuold have been. yellowTab are learning, and hopefully will be around to be the biggest Haiku partner.
It’s good to see they’ve been busy addressing the issues effecting their customers as well as adding new features. Also the incorporation of the planned Pro release of the VideoEditor into the Deluxe edition is a big plus.
One word is enough to describe this “new” version: bugfix!
I’ll stick with Haiku.
Ditto
Anyone know if it fixes the audigy 2 problems a lot of people have been encountering? Found no mention of it.
If you replace the emuxki driver, don’t forget to remove the emu10k driver if you also use a sb live card.
The emuxki driver in Zeta does _not_ handle the live, as they use the emu10k driver for that, which has better support for the extended features of the live card then the emuxki driver.
So if you’re using a Live card, it is generally better to stick to the included drivers.
anyone?
Yes, the service pack seems to have installed easily. I rebooted before I installed it. I launched the installer which I found very nicely done. The install proceeded smoothly. It asked if I wanted to keep radio stations located on the Zeta toolbar menu which I selected.
Install seemed to take only a few minutes but I did not time it.
It requested a reboot and everything seemed fine. Firefox is upgraded to a more current edition 1.6a1.
Happy camper here!
Yeah they’ve put new emuxki drivers in there so Audigy works (kinda). You might want to replace them with the ones from the Haiku build factory, they tend to work wayyyy better..
Haiku buildfactory : http://haiku-os.org/factory/
And get the files:
haiku-multi_audio-cvs.zip
haiku-emuxki-cvs.zip
Ok thanks. had to go back to Beos max edition because of that. It wouldnt work in zeta whatever you did, and nobody got any response from yt in the forum about it. Will give it another try!.
Something along the lines of Cubase or Sonar.
I’m most satisfied with Zeta: it looks great, has all the basic apps, is super simple to use, and it recognized all my hardware… even some old (win95/98 era) devices that xp doesn’t. It recognizes my NTFS partitions too.
Oh yeah, zeta need one more app: a file manager along the lines of the one in Xandros. That crappy Apple like FM is for shit.