Linked by Dmitar Butrovski on Wed 13th Sep 2006 16:04 UTC
It was 1997 and in these dark ages of the Amiga history, a few brave ones have embarked on a seemingly impossible journey. It is difficult to start from a clean slab, but complete rewrite of the AmigaOS Application Programming Interface (API), in open source domain, was the only option for Amiga community to gain control over destiny of the beloved platform. The Amiga Research Operating System (AROS) was born. Under, at times slow but steadfast progress, the vision is nearly complete. Not only is AROS almost feature-for-feature complete when compared to AmigaOS 3.x, but it has excelled many of the original design specifications.
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There seem to be great parallels between this project and Haiku -- both of which seem to be making extremely impressive progress against the "official" closed-source versions, AmigaOS 4 and Zeta. All we need now is an open-source clone of RISC-OS
It's a great shame really that there needs to be such a duplication of effort. I'm sure that the coders of both AROS and Haiku would like to be able to contribute to the official continuations of their beloved OSes. Given the financial troubles that the developers of AmigaOS 4 and Zeta seem to be in, plus the fact that inbetween Windows and free Linux, there doesn't really seem to be much of a market for a paid-for proprietary OS, is there really much of a motivation for keeping them closed?
Edited 2006-09-13 16:29