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Forgot about BeOS (and NetBSD for that matter), and wonder what came of BeOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29
Wow, that brings back memories. Forgot about the whole Palm thing. That was a wild ride at the time.
Thank you!
It's funny seeing all the kids distro hopping around here. I was like that once, now it's just debian everywhere. The one and only. Stable for servers, testing on workstations, properly selected hardware couldn't be simpler.
Back then I really liked NetBSD cause they were the only one who had a native OpenFirmware bootloader, which meant you could boot PPC macs with it without requiring a mac partition to load the extension.
Unfortunately I can't run Debian on my M3 MacBook Air :-(