Talk:zETA (operating system)

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I've just setup Zeta (OS) as a redirect to this page, this is the same scheme as other OSes listed on Wikipedia, and i'll also edit the Zeta disambiguation page to point to Zeta (OS) instead. Reminder, replace screenshot with one from r1; flesh out the body a bit more.

AberBeta 09:25, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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- The English in the "Versions" section is terrible, and sometimes does not make much sense. Was this done by machine translation? I suggest that it be either deleted or totally rewritten (if the information can be corroborated, that is).

- The information about ZETA R1.5 seems highly speculative. Can anybody corroborate its acurracy?

|I would say the R1.5 is pretty irrelevant. It was never sold in great quantities and was not widely installed. I believe the linked OS News Article will shed light on this though Memsom (talk) 20:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dead Link[edit]

Link to product page is dead. Remove? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.193.212.12 (talk) 12:42, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Outdated[edit]

This page is now outdated. R1.21 is shipping, and R1.5 is expected to ship in 4 days. I'll probably get the 1.21 LiveCD to get new info. --71.220.27.249 20:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would say this has since been addressed Memsom (talk) 20:06, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Zeta2.png[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Messaging system[edit]

Prior comments:

Now I don't understand how yellowTAB can make changes to the messaging system if they don't have access to source code.

- They have access to source code

- I know, it just said in the article that some people doubted that:
and question whether yellowTAB has the complete access to the source code they would need to make significant updates.

Okay, so the major changes to the Messaging system were entirely made by Be Inc. The Dano Release of BeOS contained many of these, including a new flattened message format and a heap of optimisations and changes that made the messaging systems or R5.03 and Dano incompatible.

What YellowTab did was change a few defines in the header files to make certain methods in BMessenger (IIRC) less likely to be used without extra work.

There's a big article that Dianne Hackborn wrote about this subject. Might be interesting to quote from that.

Memsom (talk) 13:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of "free" version[edit]

One of the downfalls of Be Inc was the Personal version of BeOS. They released this at a time they were refocusing their development work on BeIA (BeOS for Internet Appliances) and so it probably seemed like a fair deal. Prior to that, the only free versions of BeOS were back in the Developer Release and Preview Release time. No version of BeOS post PR2 was EVER given away for free *without* it being a limited CD only version that did NOT install to a hard drive and would not open existing BFS formatted volumes. In essence, the language of the author who wrote the section is whiny and TBH not giving a full historical perspective. It should be toned down and references to the notion that there should have been an entirely free "personal" version, removed. They serve no purpose, the notion was not prevalent throughout the BeOS community and given that Be Inc lost 90% of their BeOS R5 sales after it became common knowledge that Personal could be hacked on to a real partition and that they really lost hardly anything worthwhile by doing so, I would put forward that it is actually pretty insulting to BeOS to make such a claim. Memsom (talk) 20:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Be was not a microkernel[edit]

Reference from the main Haiku developer : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16906198

BeOS absolutely did not have a microkernel; all the hardware drivers, filesystem interfaces, and lowest-level network protocols ran in ring 0.

Family Guy Guy (talk) 20:16, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]