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I was a big proponent of BeOS back when it was still PPC-only, and I spent a lot of time evangelizing it to others. I was sure that everyone would see the superiority of the OS, and developers would jump on board and soon I would be running a full suite of Adobe apps, etc. on BeOS. Yeah, right. Although I still have my copy of "The BeOS Bible" by Scott Hacker (once it's biggest cheerleader, now using MacOS X), and still read articles regarding the various "keep BeOS alive" projects here and elsewhere, I would have to say that BeOS has gone the way of the Amiga--a great ahead-of-it's-time OS that has all but died except for the diehards. (Although supposedly Amiga is also making a comeback.) I'm not a programmer or developer, just a power end-user, so without Adobe, Macromedia, and M$ apps, or at least compatibility with same, BeOS is merely a nice toy to play with for me. For those that are programmers/developers, what would the advantage be, realistically, of using BeOS over Linux or MacOS X? I just don't see it happening. Let's get over it and place our resources into the future, not living in the past or pining for what could have been.