I know about them, but two 603s is not exactly stellar, and there are no
scientific applications for the Be-beasties yet (but then, BeBox now runs
Linux). The hardware is not exactly cheap, either. Apropos Linux, an
experimental port of the L4 nanokernel (12 kBytes) with Linux personality
exists, check out
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/LiOnL4.html
and
ftp://ftp.inf-tu-dresden.de/pub/os/L4/devel/l4-<date>.tar.gz
ciao,
'gene