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OpenBeOS and similar projects are nothing but bad jokes. It's like ReactOS (http://www.reactos.com). They are working for years and what do they have? Nothing to speak off. Writing a modern desktop/general-purpose operating system is such a huge task that it is by far out of reach for a group of a few dozens of students and bored geeks. The only hope for an alternative to Windows is Linux because while it's still mostly a cheap bastard's server OS and a geek toy it has much of the core stuff any OS needs ready and now cooperations pump in a lot of money to turn it into an OS that is attractive to a broader audience. Dozens of professional programmers are payed to work full-time on Linux and Linux-based solutions now because a lot of cooperations had to realize that Microsoft will kill any competition in the field of computing sooner or later. Sun and IBM know it. They are an endangered species in a Windows-only world. But make no mistake there are no resources left. Everything will concentrate on Linux the other OSes will never be more than hobby projects without any real use. It takes decades, over 10,000 hackers and billions of cooperate money to create what we call an OS today. Zero chance.