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i was a BeOS lover, and used it all throughout school, but haven't really touched it in the last year (been trying to get it going in VirtualPC with little luck).

but now that several Be engineers are going to get their ideas released to the public in 9 months or so (this time under the apple name), is BeOS still relevent?

Here are the things i loved about BeOS: the interface (snappy, unobtrusive, and good looking), the file system, the open standards support, and the community.

if Tiger is everything it says it will be, it should have a snappier interface (and not bad looking, but that's debatable), HFS+ w/ spotlight looks like it may be an acceptable replacement for BeFS, Apple's doing great on standard's support, but the community is only so-so (to many people looking to make a quick buck if you ask me).

so maybe its that i haven't booted into BeOS in the last year, but what does it still offer that OS X doesn't already (or Tiger won't in a few months)?

BeOS was the best operating system I've ever used, unfortunately, atm, i don't find it practicle anymore.