We should ask yT to publish all that mails he sent out to others and comments he made on BeShare. He just did one more step into the personal fight he try to have with yT And he made a lot of mistakes which showed me that he have no real idea about Zeta. He compared Zeta with Dano and not with the existing R5. Is that the “BeOS Comunity” ?Ībout the Review i can only smile.
I got a mail forwarded where Chris Simmons try to hurt yT and asked GNU.org and the free software foundation about that issue and that he want them to check the situation. This discussion about added GNU stuff is so annoying, if you are so cool and well known in that issue come together with Chris and sue them, if not let it be. Also the diffs Be Inc made, they published the links by mail and also forwarded it to the people requested it. They got mails from users who said they wanne see the sourcecode from gLibc, well it is downloadable. A LOT of lawyers work on that GNU issue and afaik yT is not doing any unlegal things with GNU.Ĥ.
They do what GNU says in germany and how to use it. yT is a company based in germany so german law is the base for them. But it is on yT HOW they make it available.ģ.
As soon as yT put them to the Zeta cds they must make anyhow the diff available. As long as they use it only internal you can do nothing. GCC3.2 is nowhere available public from yT afaik. GCC is lGPL which means you can compile everything with it and keep it closedĢ. BeUnited will also distribute OBOS, but they dont have the money to bundle as many goodies as YellowTab do.ġ. They will learn with Zeta how to organise/publish/distribute/support an OS. And YellowTab will be the biggest OBOS distribution. MAX and DevEd are just hacks for R5PE, you miss out on SVG, BONE, new MediaKit, USB and other stuff.īesides, everyone knows that OBOS is where its at. There is no one else in the world doing this for the BeOS community. And there is a group of enthusiests (under the disguise of a company) who take a know distro and support it. It has updated drivers, most of the better apps from BeBits, all on one single DVD. No more AthlonXP patches, no more P4 hyperthreading patches, this thing just works straight from the box. What Zeta gives me is easy support on newer boxes. Dont forget that you get a legal version of GobeProductive, Squeezer, BeServerd, and other 3rd party apps which make the OS easier and more enjoyable.Īnd I think Spleeny is cute. And that, my friends, is worth $99 (or similar) for the Deluxe edition. All Zeta is is a RETAIL version of DANO – polished and ready for distribution. Everyone knows that Zeta is a legal version of Dano, with goodies thrown in by yellowTab themselves (an installer, SVG, USB stack etc). I’m sure if you announce it in that thread, he will be quite pleased (hope I’m not putting words into his mouth!) His intention of doing the review was to be informative, and he’s done that in a lot of depth, especially considering Zeta is a Beta. He will be more than pleased if someone does that, due to the quota limitations mentioned above, presuming an unmodified mirror. because he was tired) and require no real thought or work for publishing on your site.
So, if you really dislike the fact that it is a huge zip file, I suggest you offer to mirror it, but in a decompressed website format like you wish: all the links are local paths, and work correctly (he enlisted my aid in checking for spelling mistakes, etc.
If he didn’t have all the interesting graphics, the size would be a lot smaller, but a lot of what’s in there really needs the pictures to appreciate. Thus, it comes down to budget limitations, not any limitation in knowing how or wanting to do a web-page display of the information.
However, he has a bandwidth quota to keep within, and the size of the review in a zip file says a lot right there, considering his quota limits (you can’t get too picky about your limits when someone is donating you the hosting, and his limits would be blown within a day) and the number of people that are still interested in reading a full review, he needs to use mirrors to get it out to as many people as possible.