tonyvdb wrote:
Another good question is what are the advantages/Disadvantages of going with AROS over Amiga Forever (other then the obvious beeing its FREE?)
It's free, yes...but..
It's open source, as more people get on board aspects of the operating system can be continually improved, changed, adapted to meet new hardware. It's all there for the community to get their teeth into and change. Even create their own AROS distros, in much the same as what happens with Linux.
It's running directly on the processor, so, as fast as AmigaForever might seem compared to your a500+, we're talking about an AmigaOS running natively at unrestricted speeds, capable of running modern applications.
Whereas AmigaForever is about running old classic applications AROS is about creating a new open source Amiga environment which people are going to want to use everyday. If you use AmigaForever, you have to host it on Windows and you're not going to think of it as a replacement to the host OS. With AROS, it's having a real Amiga again. And if it all works out, it could be your next OS, and it sure as hell isn't going to share a HD with Windows.
