Is AROS the future of the Amiga?

[chiark]

Excellent thread this, with some wonderful debate.

I downloaded the bootable AROS last week and ran it.  Apart from my mouse not working, I was genuinely stunned at what has been achieved so far.

I have yet to see OS4, and really would like to.  If there's anyone in the Yorkshire region of England, give me a shout please :-) .

AROS is a great start, and with a lot of thought I do see it moving forward.  In particular, I'd like to see the stuff that has already been mentioned in order to bring it up to speed in the modern OS world - memory protection in particular would be a hot topic for me.  

When I get spare time, I will be looking to see how I can help with AROS.  At the moment, I can't afford/justify spending out on OS4, and that saddens me :-(

[chiark]

Sure - it's a Dell Latitude C640.  It's docked and using a PS/2 Microsoft mouse (old one).  The mouse, as soon as its used, skits the pointer right to tbe bottom of the screen and refuses to move.  Using the keyboard shortcuts gets around the problem :-)

If I can help, email me - chiark@gmail.com :-D

Sorry for off topic :-)