ZetaNews carries a review of YellowTAB’s Zeta 1.0-RC1 (earlier story). It discusses installation, networking, hardware support, media, office apps and development. Screenshots included.
YellowTAB Zeta RC1 Review at ZetaNews
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I honestly don’t see a point in what you say. How does your (allaged and taken out of context) quote in any way prove that Zeta isn’t supporting BeOS in the way I said it does? Just because they don’t have plans on replacing the kernel with OpenBeOS’ doesn’t mean that they aren’t supporting BeOS.
Sorry to but in, but has Yellowtab said anything about supporting OpenBeOS?
I don’t recall it, other than they will use OpenBeOS code when its beneficial for them to do so. Does not sound like a give and take to me.
P.S. I am not suggesting that Yellowtab or OpenBeOS should not be supported.
>Zeta is Zeta and is not BeOS according to themselves…
>nor will they benefit OBOS or benefit from OBOS.
>We have no plans to replace Zeta with OpenBeOS at all,
>only some parts
Sorry, XBe. But you did quote they use OBOS and then you say they do not benefit from it ??
Zeta IS BeOS R5.1.0 (Dano) with lots of extra’s (new mail replacement, svg support, new deskbar & tracker, full version of Gobe Productive, fax server. BeServed full version, Java support (for now only pJava), …..
“Bernd:
For the GeForce 4 we are waiting for Rudolph, it would be a waist to do things twice. ”
Nice one Bernd! Ok I’m not saying that Rudolph isn’t doing a great job on the GeForce driver… he is. But the cards that this driver is supporting must make up a very large % of the overall video card base that Yellowtab is going to be trying to put Zeta on.
Wouldn’t it be better if Bernd and the gang actually worked WITH Rudolph, rather than waiting for him. Are we to assume that if Rudolph gets sick and stops working on the driver that Zeta will not be released until he gets better and finishes off the driver?
Also, beosjournal.org visitors contributed money to buy Rudolph a Graphics card to test his driver on. It would seem that YellowTab are not supporting him in any way.
YellowTab admitted in an interview that they spent too much time working on new additions to the system. Applications and features that were perhaps not critical, and this left them streached. Of course they cannot write every driver for every video card, and every sound card etc., but hands up everyone that bought a cheap-ass GeForce 4 440MX.
Just wanted to say that I happen to agree with most of Jace’s comments.
Didn’t a few people in the BeOS community donate money for hardware, so that Rudolph could develope his driver?
So this is another freely avaliable resource that yT is grabbing and charging for?
Is very funny to me, people say supporting OBOS is supporting BeOS, then claim supporting Zeta is not supporting BeOS. Funny indeed, that these people who say these things are working on or for OBOS in some capacity. Funnier still, OBOS uses no code from BeOS, written ‘from scratch’, while Zeta actually comes from BeOS source code and is TRUE INHERITOR to BeOS. Alas, people putting-down and bad-mouthing Zeta, when they have not even used it themselves – they have not even seen it in person (or base judgement on beta, beta version, or wherein their posession of it is of questionable legality), this is all to me strangely funny. Funny that people (yes you know who you are) say <they> and only them know what is best for Zeta/BeOS, and that company who works on it ; people who work on it should listen to them. Yes, funny indeed. Now go scurry back under your rocks heathen…