www.anubis-os.org finally open

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ferrellsl wrote:
Anubis won't go anywhere.  It's merely a re-implementation of an old idea called Amithlon.....They'd be better off supporting kernel and driver updates for Amithlon instead of trying to reinvent the Amithlon "wheel".

Nothing to do with Amithlon at all... Amithlon was an Emulator, Anubis is an operating system... :roll:

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DJBase wrote:
I wonder what is wrong with AROS to start another one with less amiga-features?

With AROS, and OS4/MOS, the aim is to make an Operating System that from a technical stand point works like AmigaOS... With Anubis the idea is to make an operating system that, with respect to the user, looks and functions like AmigaOS, but without it's technical limitations.

It is a different approach, no less valid and one that has more long term value if indeed there is any value in "Amigalike" OSs....

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bloodline wrote:

DJBase wrote:
I wonder what is wrong with AROS to start another one with less amiga-features?

With AROS, and OS4/MOS, the aim is to make an Operating System that from a technical stand point works like AmigaOS... With Anubis the idea is to make an operating system that, with respect to the user, looks and functions like AmigaOS, but without its technical limitations.

It is a different approach, no less valid and one that has more long term value if indeed there is any value in "Amigalike" OSs....

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JJ wrote:
I think by using a linux kernnel they are hoping to avvoid the problems AROS has with drivers for thee millions off different hardware options out there

To be fair AROS Hosted use Linux to get around driver and hardware problems... But with any OS that clones Amiga OS, you have to live with the flaws of the original design, and Amiga OS is full of flaws!

I for one would love a nice simple unix that works like the OS I grew up with... And free, unlike OSX :roll:

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sim085 wrote:

bloodline wrote:
With Anubis the idea is to make an operating system that, with respect to the user, looks and functions like AmigaOS, but without it's technical limitations.

Why don't just develop a Graphical User Interface for Linux or BSD then? Something like GNOME and KDE?

Well the GUI is only part of the picture, filesystem, CLI, file structure, library and device handling are all inherent parts of the user experence with AmigaOS... These things will also need to be replicated in the new environment!

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Jakodemus wrote:
After the release of Anubis we will have four amigalike OS. It would be nice if people would concentrate on creating new software for existing systems instead of making their own amigaos with little or none programs to run. No, E-UAE isn't really a usefull program.

But OS4/MOS/AROS suffer from the limitations of AmigaOS... Writing new powerful software for them is problematic... Anubis hopes to rid the Amiga world of the original system limitations, at the expense of backwards compatibility...

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So... linux kernel, libc (uClibc? glibc? eglibc?), busybox, and cut down X11 (meaning what exactly?), yet working closed source drivers from nvidia... good luck

In the end I'd much more want a regular desktop environment aimed at old amiga users, than what you have described. But, I suspect what is what you'll end up with anyways, if anything.

I think the most important thing to to hide the complexity of systems like x11 from the user. x11 for example has a million functions, but in reality the user only needs to see a tiny subset of those, presented in a simple and familiar way. This goes for most parts of most linux user space components.