Ranchu wrote:
@dammy
I selfishly wish that the AROS team wouldn't get side tracked with ports to EKIFA and other architectures (including x86_64 to some degree). I would love to see them focus on x86 native and Linux hosted and develop in a way that it can be ported to x86_64 down the track when it is really required.
The time spent porting could be better spent writing and improving device drivers. This would improve AROS's reach much more than creating ports to obscure platforms.
Actually I don't really see the interest in EFIKA. Aside than embedded applications (what it seems to have been designed for) the small form factor makes it neat as a media PC. But with only 400MHz/760 MIPS it doesn't have enough power to handle standard-def MPEG4 content let alone hi-def formats.
you see, if i had the student loan i'm getting in a while right now, i _might_ havve bought an efika thing to run a webcam for my front door/use it instead of a mini-itx board for some pointless project like a hi-fi in a zx spectrum or something...tbh i'd still probably go for a mini-itx board...but since i don't have the loan yet, i've only got about 7 x86 boxes lying about ready to run stuff...i hate linux, i find it obtrusive and pointless when xp works perfectly well for me, so that's why it's never going to be installed on my machines any time soon. i'd install aros just for fun, but from the skim reading i've done, it doesn't have a proper web browser, built in streamlined uae support (i.e. double click an adf file to run it...) or a particularly nice installer...so bleh to running that...if it did, then i'd have it dual booting for whenever i wanted to play amiga games...
