Arix

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No its not linux hosted AROS.
I personally was disinterested until I noticed who was working on it.
Between them theyve written the aros kernel, ported and enhanced it for x86-64, ppc, arm, bakported enhancements to x86, ported aros to the sam boards, written intel, ati, nvidia, vesa drivers, written aros 3d subsystem and drivers, and a shedload of other stuff that typing on a phone makes me lose enthusiasm for typing.
This is no fly-by-night/marketting operation, but real work done by developers who have helped shape aros into the usable system it is today.

As already mentioned the text on the website is nothing more than placeholder text. Given that the initial releases are soon Id expect it'll be replaced soon with something more accurate.

As a longtime AROS user and software dev. Im personally pretty excited about the potential ARIX brings for AROS, although Im also expecting it to invoke quite some misunderstanding and/or misinformation.

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Part of a feeling of being incomplete in my opinion is due to the fact that almost daily theres new work available, not always heavily tested, or complete.

OS4 and MOS both differ in that what people end up with is akin to a light distro, and one that is worked on by core developers, meaning that releases content is more heavily controlled, and aimed towards a much more restricted hardware base.

Find or buy hardware that is properly supported, and use a distro rather than a nightly and AROS behaves equally well.

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These ARIX topics seem to be going in circles, with most people still not understanding. These things have been mentioned umpteen times, but for the sake of (hopeful) clarification:

ARIX isnt linux hosted. It runs on the ARIX kernel, which is the AROS kernel with a shiv to allow for linux drivers to be used, plus some other bits and pieces to allow for some other enhanced functionality to be more easily included.
It's not linux, nor does it use linux apis, xwindows, etc. It's essentially AROS with a different kernel (although heavily based on AROS).

As for the amithlon comparison, it doesnt have anything to do with. 68k, but rather the way linux drivers are used.