I had a roommate in college who had a BeBox with the twin PPC 603(?) processors and a row of LEDs on the front configured to show the current load of each CPU.
It was super cool and could make these absolutely insane multimedia demos, but he was forever trying to get software to work on it. Whatever POSIX compatibility it had was absolutely insufficient for modern (at the time) applications. Everything required some rewriting by hand, and there were definitely crashes. Worse, Netscape didn't release a BeOS version of Navigator so he was always hacking up the latest Mosaic release to try to get it working. I was running FreeBSD at the time and it was the polar opposite. Sound barely worked, the only video players were slow and unreliable open sourced school projects, but it was front and center on the newfangled Internet thing that was going around at the time.
It was super cool and could make these absolutely insane multimedia demos, but he was forever trying to get software to work on it. Whatever POSIX compatibility it had was absolutely insufficient for modern (at the time) applications. Everything required some rewriting by hand, and there were definitely crashes. Worse, Netscape didn't release a BeOS version of Navigator so he was always hacking up the latest Mosaic release to try to get it working. I was running FreeBSD at the time and it was the polar opposite. Sound barely worked, the only video players were slow and unreliable open sourced school projects, but it was front and center on the newfangled Internet thing that was going around at the time.