Waccoon wrote:
alx (pointing out some counter-arguments):
2) If OS4 was on PC hardware, people would be able to use Windows applications, so there wouldn't be an incentive to develop OS4 applications.
Yeah, I'm tired of that argument, too. People who already use Windows either need it or want to use it.
More importantly, people who don't know yet Windows and get a new PC with an hypotetical OS4 would be more motivated to use an OS which has much more software and might even support better their hardware than OS4.
Varthall: I don't see much point in having AmigaOs4 ported on x86, since there's already Aros for that, and better yet it's free.
Sorry to be rude, but AROS is crap at the moment. On my system it crashes and locks up constantly, and the interface gives hardly and useful feedback and information. I've never used an OS before where clicking on an icon caused a lockup. Even Windows will give you some "warnings" that something bad is gonna happen shortly. :-)
From what I've seen, AROS is coming up nicely, and seeing the number of commercial OSes already available for the x86 platform, I think it would have more chances of surviving than a closed source project as Os4 (on x86).
Varthall
