** HOT FLASH ** EFIKA is now the biggest ever Team Aros Bounty! **

[dammy]

Actually, there are several donors to this bounty already which includes two corporations (Nusim and Genesi).   Hopefully before XMas, Olivier will have enough time to add the individual bounty donor's pages to the site.

Of course, those who wanted to see AROS ported to PPC, now is your time to give your support by donating.

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

Who donated? Genesi?

Genesi and Nusim where both major donors which came after a small number of us (yes, that includes me) individuals donated prior to the corp donations.

Dammy

[dammy]

Genesi/RVBB have donated again to the EFIKA bounty.  Total is now $1204 USD.

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

There are too many projects concentrating on porting AROS and not enough getting practical applications ported to it.

I'm seeing an increase in user apps being coded/ported, although they may or may not be reported on AO.  Lunapaint and AmigGG are good examples of code in 06.  I can count about four critical projects (atleast IMO, YMMV) that are being pushed ahead of user apps.  Currently most of those are either in developement or awaiting developer to open a block of free time for the project.  After they are completed, your going to be seeing a strong push on making things nicer for the users.  

Of course, the more developers that come aboard, the faster things can improve for AROS.  Being a community based OS, it's a two way street between devs and end users.  There is no pretty package you can go down to the corner store to buy. You want AROS, either roll up your sleeve or open that wallet like so many of us have over the years.

Dammy

[dammy]

What if I wanted to donate to a bounty, but I do not trust the person responsible for keeping my money in escrow?

If you do not trust me, go make up your own system.  Simple as that.

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

ofcourse it will take years when people throw their time away on not important projects and while all the no-sayers back them up and says "it will never happen"... a good web browser like firebird and an emulator layer is what AROS desperatly need...

Well, there are those who say negative things while sitting on their butts, then there are others who actively doing something to achieve goals.  My hat is off to the AROS developers, their dedication is very inspiring to those of us who doing what we can to motivate and reward them.  The two most critical things to AROS are the number of developers and free time for those developers.  UAE integration is in standby till the developer can free up enough time to work on the entire project.  It will be a huge relief to me once he makes the announcement that he is officially starting.  I rather see the monies collected in the pockets of our developers then sitting in a paypal account.  

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Dammy

[dammy]

I would rather see the AROS folks use there effort to the x86 version then waste their time with this.

My favorite arch port is  underway.  It's a total of one developer.  PPC is going to take, again, one developer.  I wouldn't be suprised if the developer who takes on the EFIKA bounty will be mostly interested in PPC and who currently only works on AROS PPC.  In other words, AROS won't lose much, if anything and it does appear to draw user app developers to AROS itself. IMO, I see this as a win-win for AROS.  

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

by FerretSimp on 2007/1/23 9:50:22

It will be the first "official" AROS computer. That's actually quite a big step when you think about it. A machine that you can go out and buy, specially to run AROS on.

Actually, no.  Black Troll's LE was the first "official" AROS computer.  I still have AROS on the first "official" AROS laptop.  Pity the OEM was such a {bleep}, I couldn't expose my customers to that type of horrific support.

Dammy
Head Troll
Black Troll Technology Corporation

[dammy]

Aros on Efika is a waste of time.

If people want it, then it's not a waste of time.

Dammy

[dammy]

Looks like we have a probable Developer who wants the bounty. He's written to me in private email requesting the bounty.  I've instructed him to join the teamaros ml and do an official request with a short background description.

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

He is almost finished with it.  Mid April is deadline now since he has university project he needs to finish this month.  He's submitted most of his work already so for most Drag N Drop operations, it's working.

Dammy
TeamAROS