OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20313/Review_AmigaOS_4_1 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:44:21 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Bring it on http://osnews.com/thread?331101 http://osnews.com/thread?331101 I can't decide whether global warming or the release of hardware for Amiga OS 4 is more likely to indicate a coming apocalypse.

Looking forward to the review! Also looking forward to reading Amiga Inc's official response to this, since after all "No one wants to see OS 4.0 shipping more than Amiga does." (taken from amiga.com). Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nycran) Comments Eich: Please settle down http://osnews.com/thread?331102 http://osnews.com/thread?331102
Eich then said that although Google is a mighty competitor, Mozilla has been doing open source software for years and although WebKit, the engine for Google's Chrome browser has been around for some time, Google's challenge will be to move it forward with its own developer community. "You can't just sprinkle open source pixie dust on it" and it works like magic, Eich said.


What a crock of crap. You're going to work on making your process model works with every revision of WebKit trunk. The innovation is coming from the entire WebKit Community and it's rapid. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tyrione) Comments RE: Eich: Please settle down http://osnews.com/thread?331104 http://osnews.com/thread?331104
What a crock of crap. You're going to work on making your process model works with every revision of WebKit trunk. The innovation is coming from the entire WebKit Community and it's rapid.

Indeed. I read that part and the phrase "whistling in the dark" immediately came to mind. For all the "we can be just as fast" talk coming out of the Mozilla camp, their crufty old 373MB code base is going to make it hard to keep up with WebKit's lean, clean, and mean 60MB of pure muscle. Gecko was designed back when the Internet was still just a bunch of static pages. Epiphany-Gecko and Epiphany-Webkit make it easy to compare speed and memory consumption between the two, and it's not looking good for the big lizard.Edited 2008-09-23 07:03 UTC Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE[2]: Eich: Please settle down http://osnews.com/thread?331116 http://osnews.com/thread?331116 Either OS News is b0rked, or this is the wrong article my friends. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments Comment by leech http://osnews.com/thread?331134 http://osnews.com/thread?331134 Yeah, what the hell, I'm reading comments on the article about the review for AmigaOS 4.1 and people start talking about Mozilla and Webkit.

Bring on the Amiga!!!

I'm shocked they haven't ported Firefox or made a webkit based browser for Amiga yet. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leech) Comments RE: Comment by leech http://osnews.com/thread?331136 http://osnews.com/thread?331136
I'm shocked they haven't ported Firefox or made a webkit based browser for Amiga yet.


You didn't read the review, did you? Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE[2]: Comment by leech http://osnews.com/thread?331147 http://osnews.com/thread?331147 What? Read an article before posting your opinion of it? lol Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabon) Comments RE[3]: Comment by leech http://osnews.com/thread?331176 http://osnews.com/thread?331176 What do you think this is? Ars? Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments PS3 http://osnews.com/thread?331298 http://osnews.com/thread?331298 I'm not fan of Sony, but man...

...if they really have a copy of OS 4.1 that is running on the PS3 and should they release that....


...regardless of any bottlenecks the PS3 might have, Amiga OS would fly!!!! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Syphadias) Comments RE: PS3 http://osnews.com/thread?331372 http://osnews.com/thread?331372 Indeed Amiga OS would fly, but somehow I suspect that very few people would actually buy it at the price it's currently going for. $150 may be reasonable for fans of obscure hardware, but PS3 users are more likely to simply be looking for something cheap that they can use to surf the web from without leaving the couch. Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments RE[2]: PS3 http://osnews.com/thread?331384 http://osnews.com/thread?331384 I don't know of many PS3 users who would care about this, but the Amiga community, and Alt OS community in general I think would pay up for such a thing, especially considering that the cheapest Amiga right now, would run you no less than $800 if you intended to run OS 4.1 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Syphadias) Comments Mmmmm.... http://osnews.com/thread?331495 http://osnews.com/thread?331495 As a former Amiga500 owner (for many years), reading about the AmigaOS 4.1 is both making me happy and depressed at the same time.

I am happy it's still alive and kicking and getting developed.

I am depressed that it's running on obscure hardware and that it's not a dominant OS. Hands on, the Amiga was the greatest computer of all time and so was it's OS.

The closest thing I can find today is Mac OS X, which reminds me of the "whole-thing" experience we had with the Amiga. The Mac is ok and people get excited when they buy it and run it for the first time - just like I was when I unpacked my A500 so many years ago.

If AOS4.1 would run on normal H/W I would buy it, just for the f--k of it.

WHERE IS THE NEWTEK DEMO OF TODAY?!?!?!?
Paranomia... ;) Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nanotube) Comments