As seen on slashdot...
http://www.yellowtab.com/
Zeta OS, successor to BeOS from the German company yellowTAB who bought the remains of Be Inc. is about to release Zeta OS 1.0!
Normally I couldn't care less about small GUI-based 'alternative' Operating systems. They are small, don't have much hardware support, have no software support, and are controlled by a small group of developers with little hope of help due to the closed source nature of many of them.
But these guys seem to have down well, they took a small propriatory core and piled on free software features:
DosBox + FreeDOS
CUPS (common unix printing services, used in Linux and OS X among other OSes)
NDIS wrappers for wireless support.
Python 2.4 with Bethon, Zeta-specific modules..
Perl
Bash shell with advanced autocompletion templates (if you didn't know before newer versions of BASH have very advanced and configurable autocompletion capabilities.)
GIMP
Firefox
OpenSSH
Apache
etc etc etc.
Then on top of that they have improved BeOS's VM, added support for greater-then-a-gig of ram, improved the database-style BFS filing system and numerous other features.
Looks to be a very feature rich setup.
I'd bet you'd have to be carefull with the hardware, though.
But it could end up being the answer to people that want a alternative to Windows that is fast and simple to use. (and without the politics, such as non-issues with 3d drivers.. hopefully)
Deluxe version retails for around a $100
features:
http://www.yellowtab.biz/cgi-bin/db2www/zet_art2.d2w/report?catname=Zeta
http://www.yellowtab.com/
Zeta OS, successor to BeOS from the German company yellowTAB who bought the remains of Be Inc. is about to release Zeta OS 1.0!
Normally I couldn't care less about small GUI-based 'alternative' Operating systems. They are small, don't have much hardware support, have no software support, and are controlled by a small group of developers with little hope of help due to the closed source nature of many of them.
But these guys seem to have down well, they took a small propriatory core and piled on free software features:
DosBox + FreeDOS
CUPS (common unix printing services, used in Linux and OS X among other OSes)
NDIS wrappers for wireless support.
Python 2.4 with Bethon, Zeta-specific modules..
Perl
Bash shell with advanced autocompletion templates (if you didn't know before newer versions of BASH have very advanced and configurable autocompletion capabilities.)
GIMP
Firefox
OpenSSH
Apache
etc etc etc.
Then on top of that they have improved BeOS's VM, added support for greater-then-a-gig of ram, improved the database-style BFS filing system and numerous other features.
Looks to be a very feature rich setup.
I'd bet you'd have to be carefull with the hardware, though.
But it could end up being the answer to people that want a alternative to Windows that is fast and simple to use. (and without the politics, such as non-issues with 3d drivers.. hopefully)
Deluxe version retails for around a $100
features:
http://www.yellowtab.biz/cgi-bin/db2www/zet_art2.d2w/report?catname=Zeta
