AROS Feature Request Page Added

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I've added a Feature Request page on my site: Matt's AROS website (www.ahsodit.com/aros/index.html)
My new page allows users to vote for the feature they most want to see in AROS as soon as possible. This will allow the dev team to focus on what you, the users, actually want!!



Note, this new page is a bit of an experiment and might suffer from lots of problems.

Even if you don't care about AROS, please take some time to vote.

Thanks



I just want to highlight a comment by Fabio:

To develop a basic workbench at this time !!!WILL!!! slow development of low level things like drivers and stuff.

But this is to test the AROS community priorities, and see what they feel is important.

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IT would like to point out that we use a near perfect intuition clone for our GUI (and we have ZUNE a MUI Clone as a GUI manager).

Magic Menu would be pointless as our menus already have Magic menu features (have you not tried AROS?!?!?). Run Multiview and press the right mouse button!!!!

Don't panic, I'm working on a simple harddrive installer now. I just have to wait for "Basti" to finish getting harddrive support perfect.
I do actually have a computer setup with AROS on it's hard drive as the machines' only OS, here right now. It does work but still needs to be tweeked.

We have an Assembler which can be used to develop software within AROS right now!! all that is needed is to stick a C compiler on it and we will have a C development system. This may take some time though... :-)

The Amithlon situation cannot happen to us, we have NO source code from AmigaOS in our system, every thing has been coded from scratch to work the same way as AmigaOS. :-)

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By the way, if you want a full x86 native distro (ie not the current floppy one), then why not download the CD iso version?

But agreed that without the finished Nvidia drivers it's not very useful, but it is fun to play with.

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Without AROS both AOS4 and MOS would not have been possible. At least not within the time frame in which they are currently developing.

Both projects use/will use AROS code.

AROS code is free and open source.

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Why would the AROS team flame?

MOS and AOS4 are commercial projects, and they are compeating in the same market. They are always going to be at a head with each other.

AROS is a free open source project, which we do for the benefit of anybody who wishes to use it.
We have no hidden agenda, and wish both the MOS and AOS4 projects every success.

I would like to add that we have looked into porting AROS to AmigaDE (Tao Elate), while such a system should be possible there are quite a few "hardware" related issues which need to addressed. The most important of these is that for AROS to task switch, it needs to directly access the CPU regs... apprently quite difficult on the Elate VP.