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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: dammy on July 25, 2008, 03:09:46 AM
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I would like to thank Dr. Schulz for his long and very hard work for AROS development over the years.
His latest achievement for SAM440 can be found here (http://msaros.blogspot.com/).
Dammy
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Bravo!
AROS is THE only future for Amiga.
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Why is this not getting a lot of love? Pretty big deal if you ask me!! :-o
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I dont know, maybe some AROS guy can pitch AROS in 5 minutes to get us hyped up why this is da b0mb?
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I'm not up to speed with AROS and SAM440.
Does this mean that AROS is "complete" now for the SAM440 board ? Or is it now at the same stage of development as the X86 version ?
Sorry if this sounds weird, but like I said I'm a noob when it comes to AROS and SAM440, let alone the combination of them both.
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@Red:
Not really interested in a $459 motherboard that runs AROS. I can run AROS on a x86 board for cheaper.
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@TheMagicM
As the current distro stands? I'm with you. I'm thinking of potential. All it would take is an developer or 2 to take up the challenge to make a PUP, WUP layer. How about OS4Emu and MOSemu?
I guess I am dreaming.. :cry:
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It is cool that AROS was made for this board but I can run AROS on many X86 motherboards I have lying around here. I got alot of them free.
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I'm trying not to be blinded because of my love for MorphOS but, I just dont see why I should buy a SAM440 for AROS. I mean, there's some GOOD STUFF coming out of Freescale pretty soon that sounds very exciting and cheaper than a SAM440. On top of that.. Eventually MOS will run on a MacMINI.. well I have one right here.. lol
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Congratulations to Michal Schulz and others involved in this effort. :-D
:cheers:
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redfox
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I dont know, maybe some AROS guy can pitch AROS in 5 minutes to get us hyped up why this is da b0mb?
Because trying to make people understand why a community-driven open source AmigaOS clone is "da b0mb" is completely useless, if people don't undertstand this by themselves. We've reached the point to have a usable operating system for free in our spare time, and time is never enough. So maybe we have better using it to improve AROS, than repeating every time the same things in forums. Sorry, pal.
Anyway, there's no motivation why AROS shouldn't be ported to Pegasos and Efika too, it would take a willing developer only, doing what Michal did on the SAM (and one thing is porting a x86 OS on PPC hardware, another thing is porting a PPC OS on another PPC platform). This would give us all a common free and open plarform to use and develop on. Just ask Linux enthusiasts it they would buy a UNIX OS licence to run the same OS on their PCs.
But it's practically pointless, if most of the community is always waiting for Xmas, struggling in a stupid red-blue war, eternally waiting for AInc to do something, or the MOS team to lower MorphOS prices. AROS is here and it's costantly improving, it runs on x86 and SAM today and for free. It's time for the community to decide if it prefer going on to rely on someone else, or turning to action and take control of the platform by itself.
I was bored of waiting long ago.
p.bes
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@paolo
I can't even begin to describe how "well put"
that post of your is.
I agree 100 %
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Well said :)
Saimon69
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I'm having a similar argument with that oxygen thief, Bouma on osnews.com
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just answered... :D
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But it's practically pointless, if most of the community is always waiting for Xmas, struggling in a stupid red-blue war, eternally waiting for AInc to do something, or the MOS team to lower MorphOS prices. AROS is here and it's costantly improving, it runs on x86 and SAM today and for free. It's time for the community to decide if it prefer going on to rely on someone else, or turning to action and take control of the platform by itself.
Paolo, even if AROS was at the same status that OS4/MorphOS are there would be an important advantage about using OS4/MorphOS and that is compatibility with older apps. There's a good number of users who think it's important for them, so AROS-PPC won't catch them until it gets m68k/OS4/MOS compatibility.
Anyway, hats off... Dr Schulz is a master and he has done a great job! I would really love to see AROS-PPC versions get m68k/OS4/MOS compatibility in the future, but this is a very important step. It's the first public self-hosted AROS-PPC version.
Hosted versions for OSX and Windows may appear in the future so AROS definitely is alive... very alive!
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It's cool because now we have one of our favorite OSes on a board that some in this community are interested in. Very novel for anyone who likes the SAM440 board.