only Amigaos

[KennyR]

OS4 is the only "official" successor to AmigaOS. There are many solutions to using an Amiga-like environment at home, and OS4 is only one of them, whether it has the name Amiga or not.

It is not the clones and emulators and spinoffs of AmigaOS that are harming it. These are only symptoms of the main problem - chronic inaction. For 10 years the Amiga has been left to rot by various useless little companies who either had no interest in the Amiga or no resources to run it.

The only thing now that can harm the Amiga is sticking to one of those solutions that doesn't work, and having another decade of inaction by sticking to yet another useless company that simply does not have the vision or resources to make any difference.

[KennyR]

But i believe AmigaOS is the only real Amiga because, it has OS3.1 as its base code.

Code wise, OS4 has as much in common with the 3.1 code as AROS or MorphOS - i.e. nothing but lip service.

[KennyR]

Well, you're the coder Tickle, not me - how useful is hardware dependent code (a lot of it in 68k assembler) on a PPC? Wasn't it easier just to clone the API as MOS and AROS did rather than try to recycle this old code?

[KennyR]

All right, a lot of people are saying the OS4 must win because it's the only successor to AmigaOS 3.x. But lets look at this more closely.

So for everyone out there who has this opinion, what does OS4 actually have in common with OS3?

Was it done by the same team of coders and software engineers?

No.

Was it licenced by the same companies, the original Amiga and Commodore?

No.

Will OS4 have any connection to OS3 more solid and palpable other than the ability to run Amiga software, such as AROS or MOS do?

No.

Is it hosted on new ingenious hardware? Or even minorly customised hardware?

No.

Does it have an empty brand name bought by a company with absolutely nothing in common with the original Amiga?

Yes.

Make of that what you will, call it flamebait if you like, but as far as I'm concerned, the fact that Fleecy and Co. own the brandname DOES NOT make OS4 and the A1 anything special in itself, and DOES NOT make OS4 more 'Amigalike' than MOS or AROS or Amithlon or UAE or whatever else is out there.

If you want OS4 because you think it is better, fine. If you want it because it keeps well away from unusable linux ports and keeps Amiga-like, fine. If you want it because you have set your heart on it, fine.

But if you want it just because it has a brand name, ask yourself very seriously whether that is a good enough reason or not to reject the other solutions out there without even considering them. This is IMO a disappointingly short-sighted view - almost blindly trusting, in fact. The only person you'll be conning is yourself.

Think about it.