I'm not a big fan these days but, BEOS was the smoothest OS that I ever used on x86 hardware. for multimedia stuff it was really nice. I ran it on my pentium 3 and it just flew!!. It was dual booting with win98 on the same machine. It was just amazing how much better BEOS ran on the same hardware as WIn98. Once again superior technology was destroyed by M$ :-x :-x :-x :-x :-x :-x :-x