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Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

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Re: Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

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I miss the old E16 themes that mimicked other operating system's UIs.

Enlightenment is still going :-) (1) and E16 had a release last November(2). Seems like Raster is still active as well ! :-D 'dharrop' seems to have a big repo of E16 themes (3) 1) https://www.enlightenment.org 2) https://www.enlightenment.org/e16 3) https://github.com/dharrop/themes

Heck yeah!

I've stuck with E over the past few decades and took the journey from E16 to 0.25.1 :)

Re: Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

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"Make Linux look like BeOS 5" when?

ZevenOS did a remarkably good job of this: http://www.zevenos.com/ Their screenshot gallery gave an idea: http://www.zevenos.com/screenshots/screenshots-zevenos A mini-review from back then: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ZevenOS-5-0-delivers-... I know, old -- but there are some comments in Haiku groups in various places that they are planning a relaunch. It was a good-looking distro. I ran it for a while, a…

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Re: Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ZevenOS did a remarkably good job of this: http://www.zevenos.com/ Their screenshot gallery gave an idea: http://www.zevenos.com/screenshots/screenshots-zevenos A mini-review from back then: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ZevenOS-5-0-delivers-... I know, old -- but there are some comments in Haiku groups in various places that they are planning a relaunch. It was a good-looking distro. I ran it for a while, a…

Is there any connection to Zeta?

As in yellowTab Zeta, the OS? No. That was a (possibly unauthorised) version of what would have been the next version of BeOS, a beta codenamed "Dano". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS_R5.1d0

There's a copy on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/archiveorg_malenki_Zeta

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