AROS has never been, nor will it ever be, my new AMIGA OS. I don't like AROS, and certainly not any of the developers working on it (especially Matt Parsons)
well, although I have nothing at all to do with AROS
at least you can contact their developers and they will reply to your emails AND you can have a go yourself. I emailed Fabio once about AROS RAM: and he replied promptly, and I emailed Georg Steger about AROS par: around 2004. In response he wrote a utility which created some of the functionality of par:
Now I emailed the Friedens a number of times and NEVER received a reply.
When Commodore Amiga went bankrupt I tried to contact them about some idea and it was impossible to reach the decision makers.
They had a guy who told the developer audience at an Amiga show that if anyone had any ideas please contact him. I contacted him at the end of the meeting and he had no interest at all in hearing what I had to say despite saying he wanted to hear ideas!
and they had a whole group of apparatchiks running the company who had no interest in the company.
also I have Matt Parsons to thank for directing me to x86 and away from PPC.
Matt made it quite clear that x86 was the only option to consider.
I think you are a bit harsh about Matt, I am not aware of any bad behaviour by him.
I have never had any problems with the AROS developers but there are some characters on their developer mailing list who are troublemakers. Arguing and flaming incessantly and contributing nothing at all.
unfortunately ALL the Amiga projects including amiga.org attract some bad people who spend their entire time harrassing anyone trying to move the system forwards.
My own OS project has been greatly influenced by AROS. Their project is very pragmatic. And they have extended the Amiga paradigm to new hardware.
AROS is the only project definition which has a long term future for AmigaOS,
there is nothing to stop you starting your own branch of AROS.
Also AROS is hardware agnostic, the main work is x86 but there is also PPC AROS.
In fact I think people were looking at creating 68k AROS as a way to develop an opensource pseudo ROM for UAE.
its quite a major achievement to create a fully portable reimplementation of AmigaOS.
I think the ONLY future for AmigaOS is an open source unofficial reimplementation,
and that is what AROS is.
the official closed source path is doomed because its an inescapable legal web.
someone is sitting on the rights and will prevent any attempt at x86 AmigaOS.
but they are powerless to stop AROS, which means its a way through for the platform.
With Unix, the future of Unix is Linux. Linux is an open source reimplementation of Unix.
I was looking at installing todays version of the original version of Unix, until I found that they used Linux drivers for their graphics!
At that point I realised that Linux IS the future of Unix
