Except its not. There is not a single line of AmigaOS code in it, nor is it compatible with any Amiga hardware
Which part of Open Source re-implementation are you having trouble with? I should also point out that there was quite a bit of AROS code in AOS 3.5 and 3.9, so even that statement isn't true.
So what? It won't run anything written for AmigaOS 4 and above, and it can't run Amiga OS 3.x software natively. As a fun PC OS its OK, and congratulations to those who developed it and provide NW for it, but an Amiga it is not.
Google "o1i"
AROS is AmigaOS API compatible and will run AmigaOS software if recompiled for it. o1i will (eventually) enable it to run AOS apps natively ala Amithlon/MorphOS. In the mean time I believe there is a port of UAE available for AROS.
It probably never will run OS4 apps using an emulation layer but tbh I really can't help but think that that is a good thing - too much in OS4 feedback I see on various boards comes back as hinky.
And just beacsue you get a hard on about open-source x86 PC OS's
See, this is what I love about you BAFs - you assume that the rest of the world must have some comparable fetish for their given point of view.
I'll state again what I've said to several of your mouthbreathing comrades:
I do not give a toss what platform I am using so long as it provides me with the tools I want and need to do the things I do day to day. The underlying hardware platform is equally unimportant so long as it provides the appropriate performance for the tasks at hand and does so at a reasonable cost. Read and understand.
No the reason is that this place has turned into a place where anything goes:
1. if a handful of the more frequent visitors agree with you.
Or you could oh, I don't know, back up your claims with facts. That tends to go down nicely around here. Watch anyone make a blatantly incorrect statement and see them get corrected, then shot down if they ignore the correction and carry on - regardless of how popular you are(n't).
2. its OK for the said handful to belittle, insult (words like pathetic, deluded, dense) if you don't agree with their POV
What, you mean like you do regularly when faced with anyone who doesn't slavishly follow your views on teh oNe TrU CoMputAr?
3. if you are a mod.
That's a delicious line in BAWWWWing you have there.
And what f'en fork are you talking about. AROS is not a fork of AmigaOS.
Its a fork in the community.
dreamcast270mhz: where you went wrong is that you expressed an opinion that didn't agree with the majority one here. In future refrain from having an opinion and just say you like "whatever anyone else likes"
Grow up.
Where he went wrong was in belittling (intentionally or not) the efforts of people who have poured tens of thousands of man hours into this project (which itself had parts of it put in both AOS and MorphOS) without any provocation or reason - no other reason.