to Dean Coffey: Thank for the info on BeOS. There is also http://www.beosonline.com/ which is mostly in German but has download links for a developer update to BeOS, about 170 MB download which would be burned to CD, rather a bog download if you have only 56K dialup line. For Arachne users, this BeOS would probably not run on a SurvPC.
Don't worry about BeOS being off-topic, so much else on this list is off-topic, and BeOS is more interesting than wondering when the much-delayed next Arachne release will be.
