Sounds to me like a challenge... and one with potentially positive ramifications. This AtheOS/BeOS/LinuxKernel hybrid will bridge a gap between Linux developers/users and BeOS developers/users. It can't hurt any efforts to keep BeOS alive, as it is source level compatible, and therefore, it seems to me that it would tend to bring even more apps to the various BeOS-derivatives, such as OpenBeOS, BlueOS, and this AtheOS/Linux one - get more developers creating apps and learning the Be API basics. So the challenge is - prove that OpenBeOS, with the NewOS-based kernel, performs much better than the Linux-kernel-based platforms. The masses will eventually migrate over to the better OpenBeOS platform via the bridge created by Bill Hayden. You all up for that? ;) Deej