Linked by Mike Bouma on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:35 UTC
Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources.
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[QUOTE]This is not a sarcastic question or anything. I was an Amiga users for years, and I loved it back then... but computing and OSs have come a very long way since then, at least in terms of how compelte they are. Amigas were far superior to everything else in terms of hardware as well. But now, I can't see a single motivating factor for the continued development of this project besides good old Amiga fanatism.
To bad it's nearly dead. OS4 and MorphOS might be my chance to see that again, and hopefully if people show interest in something WICH OF COURSE cant be as up to date as Windows/Linux/OSX because the lack of a large userbase the past 5-10 years, people will make this great, but for now very basic system OS, evolve. I hope so, because it's fresh and clean. From the ground up.
Are there any specific advantages to this platform? Something that is actually a real advantage or point of interest?[END QUOTE]
Windows is kinda bloat. It's easy to use, but there's a whole world of viri and trojan content just waiting to infest your system. I use it as my primary OS, but that's going to change. And when that time comes, I don't want linux to be my primary OS, because it's a little too geeky. Linux made a wrong turn a LONG time ago, and I for one is not going that way. Compability problems is the Keyword I guess. And the fact that it's unecessary complicated. All diffrent versions of all of those components wich make a linux system, dependency hell and all of that. I dont want that. Complicated is not necessarily better you know. BeOS was sort of groundbreaking back in the days, but without the complexity of linux ways. I consider Linux to be an experimental OS. Great if you want to fiddle something... a little like lego (i know it's a VERY advanced form of lego but anyways). I too do it sometimes you know.
AmigaOS has always been no1 for me. Fast, easy to use AND put together in a smart way. And FUN
To sum it up. I want AmigaOS/MorphOS not because it's better, but because it really has the potential to be better than Linux/Windows.