BeOSJournal features a short article about the presentation of YellowTAB’s Zeta (BeOS-based Dano/R6) operating system at CeBIT. Also, click to view three shots from their new window manager design.
BeOSJournal Reveals New Zeta Screenshots
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Eugenia Loli
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every company (even M$) do the same, that’s just to make sure ppl won’t make Linux (or anyother OS) theme that looks like the thing before itself isn’t even out =)
Can you connect and disconnect with a deskbar replicant (unlike Dano?)
At this time, no.
However, my Bone Dialer will soon begin its adaption to Zeta’s Bone. Configuration will be in the Boneyard application, and multiple connections will still be possible.
After this is accomplished, you will be able to select which connection to use from the Deskbar via a simple Deskbar replicant possibly using the same icon as the net_server one.
Connection stats, etc will probably not be coded until after the RCs are out, and maybe even post R1 depending on how well I get done with all of my other tasks, which take precedence.
Now, for the good news… The BONE Dialer I created will work with Zeta, however the installed will not.. so I will need to create another in all likelihood (or modify the existing one).
–The loon
No more questions please 😉
>No more questions please 😉
Sorry one more quick one!!!
You mentioned the media kit, and how the R5 version is being used. Does this mean there are still missing bits such as the multi-nodes? These are usefull for us musicians with multi-out, and I would assume video people and their surround sound.
Thanks
Andy.
I don’t like it. I think they should demonstrate something plain that everyone can identify themselves in. I think that people either hate or love this.
Well personally, I think the whole thing looks like a homemade winamp skin or something. Well to be positive, I think it at least looks better than the old screens =)
(taken from begroovy.com)
BRect tabViewRect ( Bounds().left ,Bounds().top+5, Bounds().right,Bounds().bottom);
Ugh.
>> Use PNG instead, it will probably compress just as well.
>Well, not as well as JPG, but they definitely look better
>(lossless compression).
Actually PNG (or GIF) will usually compress =more= than JPEG for relatively “flat” (i.e. non-photo) images (unless you crank the JPEG compression into freakin-ugly territory). Each form of compression (lossy vs. not) has its own uses and pretty much effectively beats the other within that realm.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/checkout-review/stephenson.html
This is a link to an ‘old’ pr piece that pretty much sums it up. If you never used BE and you’re interested in why it is so populaar – still; read this.
Mike
$39 or 50euro, whatever, I’ll go for it!!
All I need to work is a good text editor, a web browser with SSL (online banking stuff), and well… image editor, css editor, movie/divx player, and maybe a few browser plugins…
Also, looncraz is not ONLY a coder, he’s a marketing guy too because I think the LUST FOR ZETA has just rose to unprecedent levels!
I can not wait to try Zeta. I switched from a dual AMD – where BeOS used te run on – to an 1.8ghz notebook. I since then can not use BeOS anymore. However the line saying it should pretty well work with any notebook, makes me really happy and try Zeta!
Way yo go guys of Zeta and keep up the good work!
> I since then can not use BeOS anymore.
Have you tried AthlonXP/P4 patches ? how much RAM do you have ?
I suggest you either check the http://wiki.bebits.com or hang on in BeShare or #beos on ircnet or freenode and tell us more.
…that is, circles in a wallpaper. Never released it, though (I think)… was almost two years ago.
Knock yourself out if you want to use it:
http://w1.214.telia.com/~u21405572/temp/betest1.png
(But please contact me at [email protected] if you want to post it on a website.)
Those “circles in a wallpaper” as you call them, are actual place holders for anything you like, and are user-defined… crazy swede
DaaT
http://www.beosjournal.org
the screenshots are really ugly.
you know, you could do that yourself with the fattracker…
There is app for Dano I found on Beshare which mimicks (sp?) DUN replicant from R5. Drop me an e-mail if you want it. It is called NetPulse.
Well, duh… did you try and look what happens if you use my wallpaper with the icons placed as they are when you install BeOS? Of course they’re place holders!
😛
(But notice that I have a square for the trash as well… don’t think Zeta had that…)
mmmmmmmmm… now i’m confused…
Robert (@telia), when i said “crazy swede” i thought you were Renling… or are you? Or aren’t you? *bangs head against the wall* 
Anyway, to Renling, haven’t used FT in a looooooong time…
Robert… eh, you might have a point there, though i’m not using Zeta (yet), i can’t say for sure, but i presume it’s a different case we have here… oh well, time will tell
Take care Roberts,
DaaT
http://www.beosjournal.org
daniel daniel daniel, young lad, listen to me now … i append my lastname into my posts to avoid these misunderstandings.
and about FT it’s all about the emblems babyyy ;D
hmm wouldnt you know, I , in my oblivious demented gololdfish sense of myself forgot something, “@Daat” should be “Robert Renling” in the previous post…
WAHOO!! That will save me tons of time!
All I need to do is call the author after making a few changes for it for BONE Dialer in Zeta and, DONE!!
Also, the statistics code is very useful for me to test connections and such!!
THANK YOU!!!
–The loon
Computer Technician, Software Engineer (C/++, JS, HTML, Python, Basic, prolly more..), Computer Asthetics Designer, Artist, Poet, Learning Electrical Engineering eventually….
Oh.. then the other stuff:
2 years plumbing apprentice (w/dad),
3 years or so framing (w/dad),
6 years small business owner (sh.. don’t tell the IRS),
6 months automotive repair technician (wiring systems),
3 months, Junior NASA,
Maybe some more things I’ve done… ;-p
Cool! No more rebooting into Windows to encode DivX/XviD.
BTW, is it just my imagination, or does the UI look quite similar to LAME GUI?
Same author or is it just because they are both (apparently) using liblayout?
Yipee!!! BeOS is back, hopefully better than ever, Does this thing have support for Winmodems or do I still need to do the networking bit? And how is the Laptop Support with Zeta?
Thanks Looncraz! You need to work on Bernd to get this kind of “for the community” “specific info” released more often. Your replies have been clear and straight forward. The info on the YT site runs the gamut between clear and meaningless.
Your info has gotten me much more interested in Zeta than I was before. One thing I miss in BeOS is the USB Mass Storage support. If Zeta has this and still runs all the same stuff (soft/hardware) I have now, then this alone is worth the upgrade.
One thing that I was sad to hear, though, is that the media kit is the same as R5. Reason: lots of the media-software developers who were porting the big-name products (several) to BeOS back before/during the fatal focus shift of Be, Inc., were held off by mediakit problems (and lack of developer support from Be thanks to the afore mentioned shift).
Also, one of the important commercial products that uses BeOS is the pro audio recording system from iZ Technology. I hope that Yellow Tab is in close contact with that company because they actually have a Pro Audio product (that gets great reviews) that uses BeOS under the hood. We need to handle these folks like they are our gods because they actually believed in the technical merits of BeOS enough to release a commercial product for the pro-audio market.
> One thing that I was sad to hear, though, is that the media kit is the same as R5.
It wouldn’t be productive to try to correct the current media kit (yes there was a Media Kit beta 1 and a newer one, but all have their own bugs, and those introduced incompatibilities with apps), while OpenBeOS (I guess I include myself here =) is recoding it, thus providing (someday
a Media Kit for which the source is publically available and commented, and understood by developers who didn’t left 2 years ago the BeOS ship.
This kind of thing is too complicated to waste time on obsolete code I think.