bhoggett wrote:
The OP essentially asked the question "What is AROS for?", and it's a valid question.
The purpose of AROS is to develop an open source amiga like OS.
If the answer is "It's a project for the devs to have fun with." than that's fine, I can accept that.
As it is an open source project done by volunteers the devs want to enjoy programming AROS.
However, reading all the various announcements and the posts about it on forums from people like dammy, you'd think it was a project with significance to ordinary users, a realistic and preferable alternative to porting AmigaOS4 or MorphOS to x86, for instance - but in that respect asking "when and how" is a valid concern.
Fortunately for most devs AROS' purpose is not only to have fun but to end up with an OS usable for everyday use.
The timeline ? When it's done.
Will AROS be able to hold the interest of the casual user for more than 10 minutes, and if so when? Is it taboo to ask?
It's not taboo. The problem seems to be that some people can't ask this question without becoming confrontational.
Personally I'm an AROS dev, I enjoy programming it, I do target AROS to become an OS for general use.
I don't understand the heated discussion about it, though. If it's not usable (yet) for you; don't use it.
greets,
Staf.
