Anubis, Icaros, and XAmiga...

[bhoggett]

mongo wrote:

cicero790 wrote:

Anubis:
An Amiga os nextgen for x86 that will have memory protection, benefit from linux vast driver collection. Only the kernel is based on linux the userland will be amiga. Its no linux distro. It have vast potential in the future.

Linux is only a kernel. Anubis is a Linux distro, just possibly one that won't be compatible with any of the other ones.

It's arguable whether anything built on a Linux kernel is a "Linux distro". Amithlon was built on a Linux kernel, but you'd really be stretching a definition to call it a Linux distro.

As for Anubis, we won't know much until it becomes reality (talk is cheap and plentiful, but without product you can actually run it's just hot air). I think describing it as something with "vast potential" is a mite optimistic.

[bhoggett]

ferrellsl wrote:
Actually Amithlon is a Linux distro with an API translation layer running on top for AmigaOS (v3.9 and below).  Sort of like what the WINE project does to allow MS applications to run on top of Linux.

Like I said, that's stretching the definition of "Linux distro". Have you tried compiling and running Linux applications on Amithlon? Or even alongside Amithlon?

There's a big difference between "Linux kernel" and "Linux distro" and while both are liberally referred to as "Linux" (depending on context), this ambiguity is often abused by advocates trying to make a point.