What is the future of Amiga?

[nadoom]

I don't think you can apply Death to amiga any more.. I think we all realise that the Amiga is out of the mainstream now for good, which is a shame.

AROS however given time is perfect for an open source desktop OS that could be mainstream, which is something that linux has been struggling to deliver for years and years.

[nadoom]

yeah, Im sure IBM is minutes away from switching their business model to AROS.

I fail to see how IBMs business model would affect domestic uptake of AROS. I know countless people who want to use an open source operating system, but cannot be bothered with the complexity of linux.

[nadoom]

IBM being a giant corporation who's software business model is very heavily based on linux ?

To be commercially viable you need corporations doing the heavy lifting and pulling. Sad but true.

I am under no illusions that any form of open source operating system will always play second (third?) fiddle to the big boys OS's however Ubuntu has gained a fair amount of traction as a desktop OS but has failed in the usability stakes due to the lack of intiutiveness of the GUI, if there is going to be an open source alternative to windows why can it not be AROS?

Software will come in time as will drivers, you have to start somewhere.

[nadoom]

Really?

Not sure I agree with that, but I'd agree it's not for everyone.

Hello Karlos, how are you doing? its been a while!

regarding ubuntu, two words network manager , its terrible ( compared to the windows network GUI ) its fine for us to edit an interfaces file, but for the average joe it should be unnessesary

:-)