[Pille]

Hi,
a few weeks ago, I read about Zeta (http://www.yellowtab.com). Zeta is the BeOS successor. BeOS is / was a very fast and stable operating system, but the company which developed BeOS Be, Incorporated got broke and Palm bought it. The german company yellowTAB, GmBH continued to develop BeOS and renamed it Zeta (Zeta is the 6th letter in the greek alphabet, so it's BeOS 6). A few feeks ago they released the RC2 (Release Candidate) of Zeta for about 99.-€ / 107.-$ or for students about 69.-€ / 75.-$. After the final is available you can upgrade for about 10.-€ / 15.-$.
Finaly I bought the RC2 and it's amazing! Very fast, stable and a nice design. I made two screenshots, you can see them here:

No.1 http://www.linuxfore...=&postid=750069
No.2 http://www.linuxfore...=&postid=750072

Give Zeta a chance. Here are some links for information about Zeta:

http://www.yellowtab.com [Official Homepage]
http://www.yellowtab.com/board [Official Board]
http://www.yellowtab.biz [Online Shop to order Zeta]
http://www.zetanews.com [News about Zeta]
http://www.zetajournal.org [News about Zeta]
http://www.bebits.com [Software for BeOS and Zeta]

Of course you can try BeOS for free before you buy Zeta, but remember: BeOS is from 2000 and not up to date. Some guys out there enhanced the old BeOS with new drivers etc. - you can download this modified BeOS from http://www.beosmax.org. But this is only the old version with new drivers - not to compare with the new Zeta.
If you've questions, ask me or the guys in the yT (yellowTAB) Board ;)

And here are some links to presentation videos of BeOS and Zeta:

http://www.bebits.com/app/2704 [The original BeOS presentation video from 2000; English]
http://www.kaldience...3Sat-21204.mpeg [A little presentation of the RC2 in the german-language channel 3sat; maybe you don't understand what they say, but you can see Zeta in action]
http://chaosdna.com/zeta/ [And a presentation of Zeta Beta 3 from the Cebit 2003 - this video is one year old and does not represent the current Zeta]

This post has been edited by Pille: 24 February 2004 - 11:14 PM

[pete]

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Zeta is the 6th letter in the greek alphabet, so it's BeOS 6..

zeta isn't beos 6, its a polished and enhanced version of the never released beos 5.1 (dano ) . i will give it a try when its final :)

[Pille]

They used the source code from Dano (5.1) and enhanced it.
On ebay.de is an acution from yellowTAB GmbH: http://cgi.ebay.de/w...1&category=4619

And it says:
"Als Grundlage dient das Betriebssystem BeOS, in dessen Entwicklung die amerikanische Firma Be Inc. von 1990 bis 2000 über 200 Millionen US-Dollar gesteckt hatte. Unter dem Be-Label erschien noch Beos-Version 5, Zeta kommt nun bei yellowTAB als sechste Ausgabe auf dem Markt - daher auch der Name*.
* Zeta ist der sechste Buchstabe des griechischen Alphabet"

[DJP]

Something nice for ya:
Looncraz left the yellowtab team a few months ago to start off with his own free version of Beos 5.1 Dano called PhOS.
It includes the thememanager of Zeta + the themes and it has BONE for networking. It also has hardware opengl support and is extremely fast.
The only bad thing is that it ain't completely stabile.
But it's free for download:

http://beos.spb.ru/program/84/

http://phosphuros.tk/

Only burning the cd is a bit difficult,

In nero:
1: Select make cd-rom boot
2: Select as image file floppy.img
3: Go to the burn tab and select track at once and deselect finalize cd
4: Burn it
5: Open a new session and burn the phOS.IMG file to the disk with the BURN IMAGE option. It is a foreign image but it will burn fine.
6: Nero comes up with the message that there is already data on your cd, just click on ignore and continue to burn it.
7: Your PhOS/Dano cd is finished. :)

[pete]

@djp
whats the difference between PhOSb4a.zip and PhOSb4b.zip ?
do i need both files or is it just a different version ?

[Pille]

As far as I know is PhOS illegal! Only the yellowTAB GmBH is authorised to use the 5.1 source code and work on it. yellowTAB licensed the source code from Palm.

http://www.beusergroup.de/images2/pic/PhOS.png

This post has been edited by Pille: 26 February 2004 - 12:25 PM

[DJP]

pete, on Feb 25 2004, 20:39, said:

@djp
whats the difference between PhOSb4a.zip and PhOSb4b.zip ?
do i need both files or is it just a different version ?

It's just a different version.
The 4a2 version works best.

I got this info from a perfect legal site and what i know from palm is that they don't give a shit about an old beos dano version which leaked to net.
Legal or not, it's the same question with longhorn. Microsoft doesn't want you to have longhorn but they don't really care if someone posts a link to longhorn cause they can't SELL it. It's not a high priority.
Only final versions have that high priority. In my opinion this is a nice 'trial' version of zeta.

[pete]

DJP, on Feb 26 2004, 16:43, said:

pete, on Feb 25 2004, 20:39, said:

@djp
whats the difference between PhOSb4a.zip and PhOSb4b.zip ?
do i need both files or is it just a different version ?

It's just a different version.
The 4a2 version works best.

thx djp :)

[One of the Twelve]

DJP, on Feb 25 2004, 16:18, said:

Something nice for ya:
Looncraz left the yellowtab team a few months ago to start off with his own free version of Beos 5.1 Dano called PhOS.
It includes the thememanager of Zeta + the themes and it has BONE for networking. It also has hardware opengl support and is extremely fast.
The only bad thing is that it ain't completely stabile.
But it's free for download:

http://beos.spb.ru/program/84/

http://phosphuros.tk/

Only burning the cd is a bit difficult,

In nero:
1: Select make cd-rom boot
2: Select as image file floppy.img
3: Go to the burn tab and select track at once and deselect finalize cd
4: Burn it
5: Open a new session and burn the phOS.IMG file to the disk with the BURN IMAGE option. It is a foreign image but it will burn fine.
6: Nero comes up with the message that there is already data on your cd, just click on ignore and continue to burn it.
7: Your PhOS/Dano cd is finished. :)

Thanks a lot for this info, saves lotsa time & work :)