well iv played around a little with Be|OS its clean runs fast very compairible to amiga runs on x86 hardware more info at bebits.com i think it is its been awhile since i did much with it but its very stable OS and was designed as in the Amiga "way": multitasking/video etc runs great on low end machines got a Mac/linux feel to it ..hope this helps .. probley should have looked at how old this post was but ohh well.