Free S/W H/W Update - Well **** me with a pickled onion!

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JoannaK wrote:
Well. Why not Donate it to AROS project.. They have had sales of unused equipment (sales handled on Ebay by pro) and collected money to support AROS making.

That would be a worthy cause (but then I would say that :-D ). I'd like the equipment to be auctioned off and the money to go to an 68k emulation bounty :-)

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anyway thoose who mention aros in here should be hanged , AROS is a X86 amiga os project.

I don't get your problem, AROS is NOT x86, it's multiplatform.

The user can choose what hardware they run it on. AROS is about choice... Why don't you get off your arse and help the PPC port?

You won't because you are all talk.  :-x

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The problem with Mozilla is that the project is now dead, and that a web brower is not going to attract developers to the Amigoid platform.

What ever we do, right now our priority to be to attract developers to MOS/AROS/OS4, which are all basily compatible.

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so what other ports are there atm ? , i have only heard of X86 version and i am pretty sure it will stay there until there is somesort of an final compilation.

There is an Amiga 68K port, which is able to repalce AmigaOS (this is old, maybe you would like to freshen it up?).

There is a Dragonball port (The Dragonball being the Mobile 68K used in the Palm) which able to boot up on the Palm.

There is a PPC port, being worked on by Michal Shultz, though he is reworking the PCI driver (so that it will work on both the x86 and the PPC) right now. One can even download his work and boot an Openfirmware based PPC machine right now :-)

And there is the x86 port, which is the most complete since many developers have an x86 machine.

Opensource is the future, you may not like it, you don't have to... but there is no way to stop people sharing and working together. I want to be free of one company/person telling me what I can and can't do.

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aros is quite ok , but it aint for amiga hw...

With all due respect, OS4 doesn't run on Amiga hardware any more (or less) than AROS does!?!?!

AROS can use parts of the original Amiga OS (the current Amiga port of AROS simply replaces the exec.library and and other parts like that), just like OS4 does, only OS4 can only run on the PPC, AROS can run on either (since you can choose).

OS4 runs on commodity hardawre with a PPC processor which is source compatible (I assume) with AmigaOS programs, how is that idfferent from AROS?

Johan Grip has just got his A3000 working again and is keen to continue work on finishing the AROS 68k port.

-Edit- Lempkee I don't want to sound harsh, but I used to think exactly like you about 4 years ago, then it suddenly struck me that it deson't really matter?!?!  :-o

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mikeymike wrote:
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The problem with Mozilla is that the project is now dead.

I'd like to know how you arrived at that conclusion (that the project is "dead").  Still business as usual as far as I can see...

The project has divided into two smaller projects the brower being called something like "Fire Bird".

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Ryu wrote:
sheesh, i dont think Lempkee meant to literally hang people, its just a figure of speech. Secondly I belive lempkee was just a little missinformed, and rather than attack him why not just explain to him where he is wrong, im sure he will understand...

While I agree that we shpould not attack him, and simply explain the truth to him, it should be noted that he has been told many times the facts about AROS...