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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Member since:2006-01-16
>>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.
You are dealing with absolutes, always bad. There where lots of people who doubted that Linux would ever have more apps then Irix or Solaris but look at where we are now. You shouldn't underestimate the motivation of the people working on AROS.
>>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???
Dude do you know what you're asking for? What do you want? AROS VM? AROS universal binaries? Do you know how ugly those solutions are? No, I'm happy the way it works now.
Member since:2006-03-22
"You are dealing with absolutes, always bad. There where lots of people who doubted that Linux would ever have more apps then Irix or Solaris but look at where we are now. You shouldn't underestimate the motivation of the people working on AROS."
Oh man, you can't compare Linux with AROS. Linux is just an Kernel and AROS is an whole OS! AROS is going in competition with AOS4 and MOS and not with Linux, Windows, Zeta and others.
Linux had the advantage that it comes with GNU OSS Software which makes it comparable to Sinix or other Unix derivates which were popular back in the mid 90's - but damn expensive!
"Dude do you know what you're asking for? What do you want? AROS VM? AROS universal binaries? Do you know how ugly those solutions are? No, I'm happy the way it works now."
Yeah i know. But this is something people expect from an OS which runs on more than one CPU Architecture!!
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>>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.
And why does this please you? It seems that you perceive AROS to be some kind of threat, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Even Hyperion are fine with AROS.
I can only think it's the closed-source mentality I mentioned. When you're listing OS4Depot's 1027 apps, it's worth remembering what it doesn't have. A potential developer can put AROS on an old machine and contribute to the pool of Amiga apps - that's OS 4, MorphOS AND AROS. I can't see how a small run of Troika boards will do the same.
>>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???
Are we still comparing it to the unavailable-PowerPC-systems-only AmigaOS4? Am I missing some clever irony?
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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???