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In Q1 next year Be Corp (http://www.be.com/) are going to release BeOS for
Intel:

"Our goal is to meet the needs of customers doing digital
                      content design -- no matter what hardware platform
they may
                      be using.", said Jean-Louis Gass�e, president and CEO
of Be,
                      Inc. "BeOS for Intel opens the door for an even
broader
                      customer audience to take advantage of our
technology. At
                      the same time, we will expand the market -- the
business
                      foundation -- for BeOS software developers. BeOS for
Intel
                      represents an acceleration of our company's strategy,
and
                      we're looking forward to the opportunities the move
                      represents."

The price for this OS gem is US$49.95 + 2 OS updates, plus
shipping/handling etc......

I was wondering, seeing BeOS has a GNU compiler (version unknown) and is
fully POSIX, Multi everything etc and is UNIX based, if anyone else is
interested in this OS and what is the likelihood of cross compiling any GNU
C apps for Linux the BeOS? It has already been demonstrated that BeOS apps
can be cross compiled for Intel and PPC on either platform and they appear
and run identically on both platforms.

There are already some familiar unix apps on the be web site which have
been compiled from GNU sources, most notable are X11R6.3, Ghostscript,
GNUPlot, AMP, maplay, SIDPlayer, bash, XV etc.. plus Be original apps such
as web browsers, e-mail clients and network servers and clients. 

I don't know a lot about compiling and I still haven't received my SuSE
Linux yet (3 weeks and still waiting - damn international postal
system/USPS/Australia Post!! (bloody hopeless!)), so I can't determine
these things for my self yet.

I'd be interested to know if anyone knows anything about this.

Ivan.
(still waiting to escape the Windows nightmare)