[joshlittle]

Ahhh yes. I loved BeOS. I remember how exciting I thought it was when it came to Intel x86, for free. As a 12 year old, I was an early promoter of platform agnosticism.

I installed it on a hand-me-down emachines, aside from figuring out some voodoo magic to get my 33K modem to work; it was a good OS. I do miss technology in the 90s.

[iSnow]

I too miss the Cambrian explosion of OSs in the 90s. It felt like so much potential before it all became dominated by Windows and then the OS itself began to vanish with sealed devices like smartphones.

Would you rather have a NeXTCube instead of your Mac, or rather a BeBox? Run some networking servers on your Solaris machine and do visual rendering on your SGI? Ah, it was fun times.

[selfhoster11]

Haiku is a modern successor to the BeOS. It is backwards compatible, but future-looking as well. I'm optimistically expecting that it will be an option alongside Linux as a production alternative OS for users, one day.

[anthk]

If Haiku had KMS/DRM ported from OpenBSD, it would be my second installed OS alongside OpenBSD.