Arix

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You guys have certainly made a name for yourselves in my book.  I'll be sure not to buy anything you or Dammy are associated with in the future.  To say Dammy's write-up is misleading would be kind.

I'm impressed by your knowledge of this project, especially given how little information had been given.

You maybe correct in your assertions, but until they are confirmed, you would do well to state that everything you have said is entirely your speculation.

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The website is now live, but I STILL have no idea what Arix is.  The website is virtually empty.  I waited a month for nothing.

I feel duped.

I am in no way defending the ARIX project, but to be fair to them, you have not been promised anything... You can't feel "duped", yet

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I will say what I said over on AW.Net

We will see what happens. I am interested to see what the outcome is.  Yet this needlessly cryptic rubbish we have been seeing is annoying. It  all reminds me of CUSA when they would make a announcement, which in  turn would be an announcement for a announcement yet to come. Only for  them to bugger something up and retract statements. If it had been me I  would have scrapped the timer, done the website on a locally hosted  machine (using whichever CMS) as to avoid people snooping, had  screenshots ready showing off the OS doing stuff that average users  would do then just parked the domain ready for the launch with a static  image or something. I would have even gone as far as to not put a definite launch date just to be safe. If your wanting to put on a good show to get people  interested there are better ways. Now its just comes off amateurish.

But  it's time we ignored that, time Dammy and Terminills (also whoever else  is involved in the team) actually gave us solid info about the project. I do want to see what the fuss is all about. I want a Amiga like system that will run comfortably on my new i5 system.

Preferably one that will dual boot nicely with windows 8.1

All valid points, but if the intention was to get people taking about the project (good or bad), then it has if nothing else been an effective tool for that.

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The only way of really finding that out is to experiment.

Which is what AROS and silly SMP is all about... The nature of the projects allows all option to be tried and then the optimal (I.E. Least worst) option chosen.

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But this is slightly off topic in this thread anyway, since apparently, ARIX will not be SMP!

ARIX isn't SMP at a user level, that's is not to say it can't be in future.

SMP certainly isn't impossible in the AmigaOS design, the problem is that is SMP will almost certainly be slower than just using a single processor due to the original design decisions

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So what's the point of having linux there and not be able to use it, might as well not be there at all.

I suppose the best way to think about it would be that AROS is the userland on top of a Linux kernel, normally Linux distributions tend to use a GNU Posix compatible userland on top if Linux.

Would it be a waste if I produced an OS that used a Linux kernel, but only included the GNUStep userland?