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Has the Sputnik browser been ported to AROS yet?

Although AROS seems to be the last of the three Amiga and alike OSes regarding to browsers it has something that none the others have (except when 3.* is emulated), that is the ability of running on top of linux, so experience can be improved until it reaches the host level without much grief for the user. On native though it don't happen that way...

[pixie]

Speed? More 'real' resources? And the fact that if it is not the bes solution you can always have the hosted version on Linux?

[pixie]

AROS hosted isn't slow at all.

I would assume, pedantically I may assume it, that it would be slower then AROS native, not meaning by it that it was slow at all

What does that mean?

That if AROS isn't hosted it bangs for the metal whereas on hosted it doesn't, or atleast it uses linux ones (it was mainly a reference for using swaps memory from linux). On native the resources needed for Linux are gone and only those of AROS are taking into consideration

If it's not the best solution, why develop it at all?

Because the world isn't flat, and if it isn't the best suited tool for one job it might well be for another... take linux, it might not be the best tool for desktop but it is seen as such server wide

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So, if you have in mind some things for which AROS natively running on the Efika is better than AROS running within Linux on the Efika, just say it? :-)

It's good for AROS ego! ;-) I think efficiency is key regarding EFIKA, and AROS being an Am*ga OS represents it, adding a layer goes one step backward, unless you could integrate both user interfaces to run as one, AROS apps would be then seen as the same as linux... and... after 'seeing his work god saw it to be good' ;-)