Zeta Archive

Faktum: Business Made Simple

Thom Holwerda 2005-11-14 Zeta 7 Comments

"Beyond just having an operating system, it's important to have applications that make the operating system interesting and useful. A long standing problem for yellowTAB's ZETA has been the absence of business software for bookkeeping, accounting, inventory, and other office tasks. One of our developers has had his nose to the grindstone for quite some time now, working almost exclusively on a project to fill this gap."

YellowTAB Outlines Zeta’s Future

Eugenia Loli 2005-11-07 Zeta 50 Comments

YellowTAB posted a news item outlining the general direction and features to come in the future in their Zeta operating system: Bluetooth and better ACPI support, move to GCC 4.x, SATA support, changes to the Media Kit and media player, multi-user support and more.

Review: BeOS Rises From the Grave, Takes the Name ZETA

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-31 Zeta 52 Comments

"The BeOS obsession is still an unsolved mystery to me. I threw open the crypt and ventured inside, but I left without revelation. Once I got ZETA to boot, yes, it ran reasonably fast, but whatever bug infects people with love for this OS didn't bite."

YellowTAB Resident Open Source Advocate Speaks

Submitted by DaaT 2005-10-27 Zeta 20 Comments

"It seems that the recent announcement about the release of open source software from yellowTAB was quite missunderstood. That announcement started quite a lot of trolling in the community. I didn't feel there was much to buzz about though; it was just an official release of source code from applications being in ZETA. Nothing more, nothing less. I saw comments saying "They have to because of the GPL" or "They are trying to make PR to cover them not respecting the GPL for 2 years..." Obviously some people talk about things they don't know."

ZETA 1.1 Live CD for Free

Submitted by Lukas Linemayr 2005-10-21 Zeta 85 Comments

YellowTAB, makers of BeOS' successor ZETA, released a free live version of their operating system. You can download it for free here (click "zum download"). It's a *.cue file and the download is 175 MB. Note: ~~I cannot ... not approved ...~~ It has been confirmed.

Zeta 1.1 (SP1) Released; VideoEditor Integrated Into Zeta Deluxe

Submitted by jeanmarc 2005-10-15 Zeta 33 Comments

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."

YellowTAB ZETA: An Alternative to Desktop Linux?

Submitted by Swank1 2005-10-05 Zeta 31 Comments

"When looking for an alternative to Windows most people think of either Apple's OS X or Linux. Of course, these are both viable alternatives but they are not the only options. One way to go is with yellowTAB's ZETA operating system. Though it is not yet very popular, ZETA is the successor to BeOS, the highly regarded OS from Be, Inc. This is a very interesting and beautiful operating system which may not presently be a threat to Linux but it does have more than a few things going for it."

YellowTAB Releases ZETA Demo CD

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-01 Zeta 38 Comments

"YellowTAB is proud to announce the immediate availability of the ZETA Demo CD. The CD gives users the chance to test ZETA without having to install any software. This lets prospective customers convince themselves of speed, security and simplicity of ZETA before purchasing the full version. The ZETA Demo CD costs EUR 9.95 ($12,-) and is available from regular ZETA resellers."

Zeta’s Upcoming Update Adds USB Booting

Submitted by Anonymous 2005-09-25 Zeta 25 Comments

According to the Cola Coder, an upcoming update to ZETA 1.0 will enable booting from USB devices. This will not only allow installation of ZETA on laptops that do not have an optical drive, but it will also make it possible to install to and run ZETA from a USB memory stick.

YellowTAB Gives Back the Code

Submitted by jeanmarc 2005-09-20 Zeta 62 Comments

"Zeta includes quite a lot of open source software. YellowTAB was able to include software like bash, GCC, VLC, to name just a few, with Zeta and thus profit from the work of many thousands of developers. However, programs do not always work straight away when compiled for Zeta and may require changes to do so. We make the necessary changes and fix bugs to make sure that these programs run smoothly on Zeta. Now it's time to give something back."

SATA Coming to Zeta

Submitted by Anonymous 2005-09-16 Zeta 10 Comments

According to Cola-Coder, a yellowTAB employee, the first stable SATA driver for ZETA has been implemented. Currently, the driver supports VIA VT6420/6421 chipsets, which will most likely be followed with support for nVidia (nForce) chipsets.

Review: YellowTAB Zeta 1.0

Submitted by SilentBob4 2005-09-12 Zeta 24 Comments

"The biggest thing they have done is to add more drivers and update the look in order to bring BeOS to users who could not have installed it before and attract new users to discover what made it great. This is a good thing, but I just can't get behind this OS as of yet. There are too many problems and rough patches. If you want the best way to use BeOS, this is it. If you are looking for the best desktop OS, I cannot recommend Zeta."

YellowTAB Threatens BeOS/Haiku Developers?

Submitted by mmadia 2005-08-19 Zeta 127 Comments

It appears that Marcus Overhagen, a well-known BeOS developer, has been recieving threats from YellowTAB. Marcus writes: "Using an alleged NDA (non disclosure agreement) breach, he promises to undertake everything that is possible to sue me. He claimes that even this mail is protected by the NDA that I signed with Yellowtab, but I'm certain that it doesn't apply here. At the end, he says that a copy of that mail was sent to their lawyer, who is now checking legal measures against me."

YellowTAB Opens Download Section

Submitted by rft183 2005-08-17 Zeta 18 Comments

"We are continually working on ZETA and many improvements and bug fixes are ready before we are ready to release a ServicePack or update. As we don't wish our customers to wait, we have decided to publish a selection of these on our website. This will give customers early access to updated drivers and applications." You can access the download section here.

Review: YellowTAB Zeta 1.0

Submitted by kenny 2005-08-11 Zeta 44 Comments

"Fans of BeOS still mourn its untimely demise all these years after the release of R5 and subsequent sale of its assets to Palm. Now ZETA, a successor to BeOS, has been released. Naturally, we had to review it."

Zeta 1.0 Live CD Available

Submitted by gireesh 2005-07-30 Zeta 79 Comments

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.

Zeta 1.0 Review

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-29 Zeta 44 Comments

"This review will not try to cater to users new to the BeOS world, but will focus on what has changed since my review of ZETA RC1 and what remains to be done for future releases."

Zeta: A Refreshing State Of Be-ing

Submitted by Kelly McNeill 2005-07-28 Zeta 66 Comments

Ever since Be, Inc. was dissolved and its BeOS technology was turned over to the Palm OS charnel house in '01, Be fans have been eagerly awaiting a successor to their favorite operating system, with very few rays of hope since. Earlier this month, however, yellowTAB released their BeOS descendent Zeta. Have Be fans finally found their savior, or is this just another failed attempt at reviving the dead? Read on — this review will help you decide exactly that.

Review: yellowTAB’s Zeta R1

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-17 Zeta 136 Comments

I've always been a huge fan of BeOS. However, there was no denying the fact that the BeOS was getting old. As many other BeOS fans, I closely followed two projects: Haiku, and yellowTAB's Zeta. The latter released 1.0 a few weeks ago. Here are the findings of an old BeOS user.

Visit With Bernd Korz At yellowTAB

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Zeta 11 Comments

During the trip that BeBug made to yT's headquarters in Mannheim, they also had a talk with CEO Bernd Korz. They discussed marketing, future releases and much more.

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