Another try: Future of AROS? (yes AROS only)

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The future of AROS...

Well in the next few months we should see a Pegasos version followed by an AmigaONE version...

We should also see the Amiga Classic version develop, with an attempt to bring it up to the same level as the x86 and PPC versions.

I would ho[e that someone will continue the Palm port (which will facilitate ports to other PDAs).

We hope to get a native compiler, now Fabio has started work to finish porting it. This might bring developers to the platform..

With the addition of a compiler, the hard disk installer should be completed so that some serious work can begin on a TCP/IP stack.

Once AROS gains a TCP/IP stack it will be an attractive platform to developers and users, very cheap and powerfull hardware, with the ability to run on PPC platforms too...

It will become, one would hope, the Linux of the Amiga World, though not as fragmented as Linux has become.

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What are your ultimate goals for AROS?

Personally, for me I just want a nice system that I can use for any projects I might want to do.

I have to work with computers.. I have to used Windows... I like to use AROS to remind me that computers used to fun and did what you told them. I don't want to have to buy custom hardware (since I already have to spend a lot of money on standard PC hardware for my work), so AROS is my best Option.

I'd love to get my hands on a PPC machine with AROS on it though (so I'll be saving up).

One of the great things about AROS is that as an opensource project, it has no single ultimate goal, it also dosn't have to worry about being profitable... All the people involved with AROS have different goals and the enhancemnts that these users want to add will benefit anyone who wishes to use AROS.

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that_punk_guy wrote:
While it's true that things in the opensource world can still go awry, the difference is that the code is always there for anyone who wants to pick it up and have fun with it.

To me, an Amiga-like OS on the fastest hardware available makes perfect sense, and as soon as I have myself another (third!) x86 box under this desk, I'll be using AROS regularly, and hopefully I'll be able to start developing software for it too :-)

I certainly look forward to any software you produce!

I prefer not to think about AROS being the "Amiga OS than runns on the fastest hardware", but rather it is the AmigaOS that runs on the hardware *YOU* want it to run on :-)

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Paul_Gadd wrote:
Is there going to be UAE for AROS?

There already is!! What we need now is AROS for UAE :-)

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CodeSmith wrote:
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Not flaming here, just curious...

What can AROS on the Pegasos provide that the A-Box can't?  I can see how you can argue that AROS on the AmigaOne is maybe better than AmigaOS4, because you can do things the "old-fashioned way" and have PPC-native code (I'm not saying that the new interface-based approach is worse, I'm saying that one could argue that it is).  But on the Pegasos the line is a lot blurrier, because the A-Box (at least to me, I could be wrong) seems to be very similar to AROS in concept (I know, in reality it's built on top of Quark, but as far as the A-Box programmer is concerned, that's supposed to be pretty much invisible).

Well the ABOX is based on AROS :-) . I think the MOS solution is probably the "better one" (TM), but I don't find it as exciting as AROS.

Both systems have to tackle the same problems, so both will be very similar. I just prefer the Opensource nature of AROS too...

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Ah, of course you'll have to find a way to access a kickstart ROM and the operating system/games from inside AROS

Which is the great Irony of using UAE in AROS :-D

Untill the AmigaClassic version of AROS is up to spec, users will have to provide a genuine Amiga Kickstart ROM file.