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[Louis Dias]

What?  No AROS-PPC?

[Louis Dias]

hmmm... who would want AROS-PPC???

Power-Up owners...
future Ack/PowerVixxen owners
Classic Mac owners...A1 owners possibly..

Oh and even possibly Gamecube and future Revolution, Xbox 360 and PS3 owners...

[Louis Dias]

Revolution, 360 and PS3 all have USB 2.0 ports.

Revolution has 2 SD card slots.
Gamecube does via an adapter.

All have broadband capability and some wirelessly as well.

There's a fairly large homebrew scene for the Gamecube (www.gcdev.com www.gc-linux.org) and the Gamecube does have an "official" keyboard as well as ps/2 keyboard adapters.

The Revolution will be equally exploited via it's 100% hardware compatibility with the Gamecube.

One forum member here is making an attempt at porting AROS to the Gamecube (JLF65).

What I like about Revolution and GC is that they are small and can be thrown in a car for "auto-computing" vs. portable...just wire them in an indash LCD and mount them in a modified glove box.

The Gamecube can boot from standard DVDr discs formatted with the joilet filesystem with a $15 drive-chip.

Yes, x86 is fast and cheap, for that matter, Windows can fulfill all our needs, let's just give up and forget about Amiga, Mac, Linux and everything else too.  :crazy:

Here's the beauty of consoles: fixed hardware for 5 years so no driver worries.

What kind of programs do I want to run?  Browser, email and games.  I'm not planning on doing photo editing, music editing or DVD copying in a car, for instance.

As SD card are the new floppy disks, you can save your settings to an SD card then stick them in your main PC(AROS) and synchronize.

Also they can act as a media player.

[Louis Dias]

Well, if the "OS" was programmed right, you're only re-writing the HAL, not the entire OS.  And that's the driver issue again.

You can release specs for the minimum capabilities of a HAL and let people write their own then submit them to the OS i.p. owner and get back a working package.

If all OS's were written this way, then any OS could run on any hardware that anyone wanted without it taking 6 years to "rewrite".

I never said Windows=EVIL, please don't put words in my mouth.  However I will say: CHOICE=GOOD!

I don't like all the "wonderful built-in features" that Microsoft told me I can't do without.  Why is it that on identical hardware, Windows XP needs 512MB to run at the same speed as Windows 2000 with 256MB?  Where am I benifitting there?  I can't see any features that makes me want XP over 2000.  If I was fine without that crappy "firewall" that XP has, why do I suddenly need it now?  (Yes, I know I can turn it off...)  The list goes on...  But that's not the topic here AROS is.

More importantly, you missed my point of why the console application is convenient...  Imagine having an OS on DVD like AROS-MAX and having an SD card or "memory card" for personal information.  Supposed 20 people you know have [insert console of choice].  I can take my OS DVD, stick it and my memory card in there console and check my mail or show them some animations(or or any other datafile) I copied over that I worked on with my main PC running AROS.

Do you get it yet?

Let's say AROS was ported to Rev, PS3, 360.  All have USB ports.  I stick my AROS disc in any one of those and plug in my USB flashdrive and it doesn't matter where I am I can check my mail or whatever.