One unified OS for the future?

[fishy_fiz]

Will never work. As much as anything there's different hardware routes.
Why would aros or mos want to adopt the ultra expensive/10-20 year old performance route? Doesn't make much commercial sense at all to begin with, and even less sense to drop affordable/easily obtainable hardware for something that's much more expensive and much less powerful (in the case of aros at last, mos h/w I guess isn't too dissimilar).
There's also the fact that one system in particular (near as I can tell) is trying to portray itself as a professional business, whereas the others (especially aros) are done soley as a labor of love. Somewhat incompatible agendas.

[fishy_fiz]

No, but a bppc/csppc is about that mark. A Sam440 is about the 15year mark. X1000 is the 10yr figure I've mentioned.
Perhaps when trying to be clever you should consider the entire quote youre trying to twist?

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Heh, now I want to benchmark some 20year old pc gear. Given hardware drivers available 3d in particular might be interesting.

Back on topic though, yes, the "OS4 hardware is slow/expensive" conversation is old/tiring, but it happens to be an actual consideration if any thought is given to a merger. While those that do purchase a Sam/A1-X1000 seem happy enough with the quality of the hardware it's a pill that's just too hard for others to swallow, especially when they're already happy with their hardware running a very similar system and much the same software that's much cheaper and either just as fast, or a lot faster.
For the price of an a1-x1000 I could buy an i7 AROS machine, a g5 mos machine+license, some amiga-oid software and/or donations and a new tv.
I simply wouldn't have interest in pursuing the hobby anymore if I was forced into the OS4 price/performance eco system.

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@fishy_fiz
The x1000 would give me more fun than the combination of an i7 AROS machine, a g5 mos machine+license and a new tv .
An some would have more fun just looking at the money in their bank account .

And that's fine. But others wouldn't. If there was only one choice, the amiga community, regardless of preferred flavour would suffer.

[fishy_fiz]

Is that aimed at me?
If so,.... haha, that's funny.
Second time recently here someone has responded randomly to me about classics.
Where did I mention them, and who's complaining?

[fishy_fiz]

Nope, ARIX doesn't use the Linux Kernel, but rather a shiv.
Aeros is an interesting oddity in my opinion, but given the Linux hosted AROS side is what is amiga-oid about it, it fits the description of Linux distro more than anything, rather than an additional OS.

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@amigadave

Mostly it was semantics in reply to earlier responses. If people are going to be using Linux of some description Im all for them using it with an amiga spin.