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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"both of which seem to be making extremely impressive progress against the "official" closed-source versions, AmigaOS 4 and Zeta"
Okay... could it be that you have never seen an real OS4 installation?
"Given the financial troubles that the developers of AmigaOS 4"
Which financial troublies? Come on guy! Don't tell the people such lies!
OS4 and MOS has become in less than 5 years much more features and native software (look at AROS Archives: only 69 Files avaible - OS4 on os4depot.net has 1027!!) than AROS will ever have. With the JIT in OS4 and MOS u can run nearly any OS conform software written for AmigaOS - thats one of the important features AROS lacks.
Look at pages like www.amigaworld.net and www.morphzone.org - to see whats really going on in OS4 and MOS communitys!
And the best thing about AROS is: it is not binary compatible between other architectures. If you run AROS PPC and youre compiling any piece of software for it you can't run it on an x86 installation - WTF???