[rje]

I remember running this on a Power Computing machine during college. It was a great alternative to System 7 at the time, and easier to be productive in than something like BeOS DR3 (although BeOS was fun in its own right).

I'm surprised to see this got updates all the way up to 2009!

[vt240]

I switched to BeOS on my Motorola StarMax when it got stable around the second release and used it as my primary OS for quite awhile (all the way through version 5 when I switched to x86). I had tried MkLinux, but was using MachTen before that. I had used MachTen on 68k and it was rock solid, I never had the same luck with the PowerPC version. I honestly can't remember why I didn't stick with MkLinux. Much later I ran YellowDog on my G3 machines.

EDIT: I'm thinking back... I was pretty young at the time 14-15 yo. And just learning to program, and what I really loved about BeOS was how easy the API was to learn. I had been learning C/C++ in MachTen and never could wrap my head around making Machintosh GUI applications. But sitting down with the Online documentation in BeOS, it was VERY easy to make a program with 3D graphics and a native GUI. Later on, QNX gained a lot of popularity I think for the same reasons (fantastic documentation and API). I had worked on a project under Solaris which relied on POSIX.4 extensions (yikes) before moving it to QNX.