OSNews

I use BeOS5 on a daily basis,and like someone else here said, it does the job for me...I use it for media creation(nothing works better with sound)E-mail,(so far nobody has bothered to write a BeOS virus)internet(who gives a rats ass about java and such).I have hundreds of games for it (native,SDL,and emulated)and even without hardware graphics support most run absolutely great. I can do word processing,IRC,file sharing,some simple graphics work(although Windoze is my platform of choice for this, only because the BeOS apps aren't as sophisticated)and the beauty of all this is the simpicity of installing software,just unzip it and it will run anywhere or open a package and it installs itself!Try this in Linux or BSD, Don't make me laugh!The OS is small crisp and easy to navigate around in and any compatable hardware just works right away,no drivers to load and such.
This is the vision of home computing as it should be,something a person can use without being a rocket scientist,or a computer science major! and my hats off to anyone or group that is trying to keep it alive! Oh and BTW the box i do this on is an old 400 Celeron Pionex and hopefully by the time it finally craps out the new OBOS will be finished with support for more modern stuff,because I have no intention of giving up BeOS as long as I can find hardware that runs it.It is the only OS that's even easier to work with than Windows or MacOS!!