| apps can be found if you're prepared to look and to put up with the occasional bit of flakiness (most in constant development, many open-source). BeOS itself isn't assured of a future, given that Palm have bought Be, but there is a project to write an open-source clone of it going on (I'd give you an address but I can't remember it - it's somewhere in the recent discussions on obscure OSes). As far as the OS itself goes, it's stable, easy to use and assumes reasonable intelligence on the part of the user (no other OS I've encountered has given me a button labelled 'Duh', or had the courtesy to deliver error messages in haiku). However, NetPositive can't do secure connections and some sites dislike Opera's security. I'd say try the personal edition - if you don't like that you can delete it easily from within your other OS (it only works as a dual boot, installed to a 1/2gig partition, although I've given up on my Windows partition and just use it as a supplementary BeOS filestore...) |
