We NEED AmigaOS to go open source

[Manu]

AROS68K is currently unmaintained and as been for years.  There is a bounty (think it's ACPI bounty) that requires AROS68K to be brought into maintained status once again.

I guess you mean this one "Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I)"

Objective 1.
 Bring The m68k compile of AROS back out of unmaintained.

http://www.power2people.org/bounty_005.html and it's recently been re-assigned
to Gaz (blog is here: http://noisemonkey.wordpress.com/)
so people start donating and support the effort.

[Manu]

BTW, last time I tried to DL AROS on the local library's LAN, I was getting speeds about like dialup. ;-) No way, I'm going to download a DVD ISO that way. ;-)

Try these torrents.
http://www.stafverhaegen.be/aros/

[Manu]

Serious question though, would AROS run on Sun's VirtualBox virtual machine?

Yes
http://ve.icarosdesktop.org/

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[Manu]

Re: AROS,again,apparently it isn't rewarding enough to get  that OS polished and updated and in the hands or computers of significant number of users.

IMHO AROS is doing just fine with the resources it has. Sure it's taken a long time to get this far but I don't see OS4 or MOS rule the world either, so there's plenty of time. Most important is that people working on it is having fun while they're doing it. It's not that we're up against competition or something. We have our 3 top players in computerworld (Win,Mac,Lin)  nothing's gonna change that.

[Manu]

Also sharing goes only one way, AROS puts stuff in the public domain whilst the others don't, so everyone benefits from AROS development but only the elites benefit from OS 4.1 development....

I've  thought that thought too. But I've been afraid to tell it out loud.