Quick Gary Hare IRC report, no more 3rd party AmigaOS after OS4.0.

[Tomas]

HyperionMP wrote:
I can assure you that the future of AmigaOS 4.0 is quite safe and secured back in November of 2001.

Continued development of Amiga OS is certain provided there is sufficient financial return.

But what about os4.1 and so on?? I think most people are worried that there will be no further versions after OS4 is final.

I am one of those who wont invest in a AmigaONE if AmigaOS ends up being dropped after 4.0.

[Tomas]

mdma wrote:

Though I do thing that what Amiga OS 5 (what AI is working on operating systemwise) will be unlike any AOS we've seen. Which gets me abit concerned.

There's always AROS if things do turn out for the worst with OS4.x.

Aros is still a very long way from being usable for the average user.. It badly needs needs some networking and apps like browser(s), irc clients, mail and so on.. Basicly all that you can use it for today, is running demos and maybe uae.

[Tomas]

Running demo's? Which ones? I haven't seen any demo's for AROS. I know there is one to be released soon, but AFAIK there are none currently. MPlayer is coming soon too.

This is taken from the AROS site itself:

i386-linux-system
The hosted version for Linux/i386. This is the most complete and mature port, which means that you can run all included programs and demos with it. This archive contains all AROS system binaries compiled from the CVS tree.

And i have also seen a video demo of aros running some small gfx demos, which i believe i also downloaded from the AROS site some months ago.

It didnt have networking added the last time i checked, but i think it is very good news that it is added now.

[Tomas]

I just read the follow up from Garry, and it cleared up quite a bit of the worries i had atleast..

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=45882