content: If you're talking about the original BeOS, you're right, and I was one of those users, too... it was a great OS that unfortunately died well before its time.  But, after it died, lots of clones were spun up based entirely on the Linux kernel. Looking at Wiki now, it seems that most of those are dead, too. Regardless, some of those are still floating around, and most people out there who talk about BeOS aren't talking about something on a 16-year-old disc collecting dust.  On the up side, Wiki says there's active development of a non-Linux based version called Haiku, so there's that, I guess.