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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.