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Last update of BeOS 5 as per their website is December 2001. Since last 8 years it is not in active development. Also it doesn't run properly on modern machines. There are some patches available for it. But hardly it'll work with recent machines. Also running on virtual machine like vmware, virtualbox is also not possible. As most virtual machine software creators don't support BeOS anymore. So only alternative today is HaikuOS. Haiku OS is BeOS clone and developed actively. Haiku OS works with openBFS file-system which is database like and support metadata. Like BeOS, Haiku is also focused on personal computing than server usage. It is also simple to use and interface is inspired by BeOS.

You can check the slideshow page to see, how haiku OS works. Check their blog for more information and to look at alpha development of current version. HaikuOS is also actively develpoed and maintained. It was part of Google's summer of code projects. And it shows active development of project. For more information you can check out HaikuOS project page.