Editing ZETA (operating system) (section)

== Development ==
ZETA was an effort to bring BeOS up to date, adding support for newer hardware, and features that had been introduced in other operating systems in the years since Be Incorporated ceased development in 2001. Among the new features were [[USB 2.0]] support, [[SATA]] support, [[Samba (software)|samba]] support, a new [[media player]], and enhanced [[internationalization and localization|localization]] of system components. Unlike [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]] and other [[open source]] efforts to recreate some or all of BeOS's functionality from scratch, ZETA was based on the actual BeOS code base, and it is closed source.

ZETA contributed to an increase in activity in the BeOS commercial software market, with a number of new products for both ZETA and the earlier BeOS being released.

However, some critics point to a list of goals for the first release that do not appear to have been met (including [[Java (programming language)|Java]] 1.4.2 and [[ODBC]] support). Other reviewers point to bugs that still exist from BeOS, and question whether yellowTAB has the complete access to the source code they would need to make significant updates.

Some changes that were made could break compilation of code, and in some cases (most notably [[Mozilla]]), break the actual application if any code optimizations are applied, resulting in much slower [[Software build|builds]].<ref name=lifejournal>{{cite web|url=http://bezilla.livejournal.com/64711.html|title=Is O3 too much? or where is Zeta users feedback?|publisher=}}</ref>

YellowTAB promoted ZETA mainly in the German market, where it used to be sold through [[infomercial]]s and on [[RTL Shop]], and in [[Japan]] still being a [[beta release|beta]] version. Prior to Magnussoft stopping the distribution of ZETA, it was mainly distributed directly by magnussoft.