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poundsmack wrote:
-"While there are less drivers for it the kernel itself is more stable and has far less overhead."

Far less overhead? iirc it's a hard realtime kernel, hence it sacrifices some efficieny in order to execute prioritized threads at exact times, also since basically everything runs as a user process it seems to me it pretty much must have more overhead than Linux, if you have any facts you can point to that shows otherwise I'd be very interested.

As for Anubis choice of Linux, my guess is that it mainly boils down to hardware support. Don't quite understand the 'stripping' part though, it's not as if the Linux kernel is bloated, particuarly not for what I assume is a desktop oriented os.

While I've always liked Aros due to my Amiga nostalgia, lack of memory protection (guru meditation memories comes back to haunt me) and smp etc isn't the best foundation on which to build a system for modern use. Add to that an API which really hasn't stood the test of time (imo).

So yes, I can definately understand that some developers might want to implement an Amiga-ish environment over a small, very fast kernel with broad hardware support. On the other hand I can also see why people who like Aros will see this as a bad thing.

However it is their spare time and I'm absolutely certain that they are the experts on how they want to spend it.

I wish them luck and will file this under 'another one to keep an eye on' while I passionately continue to stalk... follow the Haiku development.