I honestly haven’t seen more than a handful of people who have given good ideas, and actually put their money where there mouth is. They will find it less difficult with the extra tools we supply (many of which will be open sourced upon release). For the next six months or so after Zeta RC1, Zeta will very much be something for the BeOS Community for full-time use, as they already know how to get by. We have plans to plugging security holes to aid in opening more markets. security… I guess no one read about our security deal? I have 7 GUI mockups that I have been ordered to create in HIGH_QUALITY. though, that is because the entire fs journal is rebuilt in those two extra seconds after a power outage □Īlso, I believe it is planned to release Release Canidate 1 _SOON_, at which point we focus on the small stuff like user suggestions for GUIs. which is irritating when you are use to going shig…shigg.shiggy…mouse.Desktop…go. Occassionally, the time to boot is longer. Though, I must be honest and say I do not overload my system. And Zeta starts on my system in about ten seconds (timed from moment I press ENTER in the boot menu (I choose Between Zeta or Zeta backup) to the time the last item in my startup is loaded ( I add an alert to the end of the UserBootscript ). at worst, instead of taking sometimes thirty seconds (Media Player problem). File system access is blazingly fast compared to the days of old (ATA133 support as well). Zeta is much faster than plain R5 in MANY MANY areas. The right side of the tab does need to be a bit more agressively curved, nothing more than art. expanding on the sides, and flattening where gravity is greatest.īut, just for you, I will try it with thick borders all around. I wanted it to feel like water flowing around a center of gravity. The top and bottom have more narrow borders by design. Also, the corners are actually pretty close to the same. I hope to find a way to customize the fonts in window decors without needing to do some major coding changes. better than having some HUGE, some small icons on the same plane like so many Linux distros I have seen do!Īnd Eugenia, in regards to the font size and vertical centering, they were repaired about eight hours ago and have been committed to cvs. I have yet to investigate if this is a coding error on my part (very feasible), or a sad reality of these decorators. Currently there is not even a pixel of seperation between the scrollbar in Net+ and the window border. Scrollbars need to be spaced out from the side too as it stands. However, the early yellowZeta decor (attempt to duplicate features of other Dano decors) was squatted onto the window on the right side by a few pixels, whilst the remaining window decorators (about a dozen) were glued to the outermost edges of the window. The YT About box put the tabs to close to the top, the Gonxish decor (in use) glues itself to the absolute edge of the window. They have been coding tests and proofs of concept only!!Īll R5.1d0 (Exp/Dano) decors are included, and the decors will under go close scrutiny. I created all the decors thus far for Zeta. But I wish them the best of luck, at least ’till OpenBeOS hits R1 Beyond that, the legal implications are troubling. Unfortunately, I’m typing this from Lynx so I can’t take a look at the previews I’m really surprised to see how Zeta got this far working with binary code. I always liked the original Dano screenshots, and hope this new interface lives up to them. But I still can’t help wondering what BeOS could have become if Be had met an Over time, Linux has improved to the point where it can now beat circa 1998 BeOS in pretty much everything. It achived this through a multithreading GUI paired with a scheduler that has yet to be matched. It wasn’t even all that fast (compiles, unzipping, etc, were significantly slower than a contemporary Linux machine). It had excellent filesystem performance, but not any better than modern journaling FSs like Reiser or XFS. It was a sensible microkernel (not ultra-minimalist like the research kernels, not obscenely bloated like NT). It was never all that technically incredible. I pioneered the “Ease of Mac, Power of UNIX” thing long before OS X came out. That must have been a long time ago, it seems. I remember signing up for my Slashdot nick as be-fan, because I was so enthused with it. BeOS will always have a special place in my heart.
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