Living with MOS/AOS4/AROS only

[spihunter]

I found an old post of someone trying to use just an original A1200 for his day2day computing needs.
Anyone already tried that with MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.1 or AROS?

That would include iOS devices sync? Coding for a mainstream platform?

I have thought about trying this with my MorphOS machine since it has the most up to date browser. (Not trolling!

The only things I would need would be:

-Browser that works with Gmail, Google docs.
-PDF reader (for resturant menu's )
- Movie player like VLC
-Bit Torrent clinet w/GUI
-Simple image editor


If they could port something like Virtual box that would take care of everything that doesn't run native.

[spihunter]

Is there a decent native mail client? You could just set GMail up for POP3 or IMAP use. (I doubt that'd help with Google Docs, though.)

My personal day-to-day consists mostly of text-oriented Internet, use of a plain text editor, and drawing - I'd be good for two out of three on my A3000, but I'd need a USB card and drivers for my Wacom (not to mention a quality image editor) for the drawing. Still, be interesting to try sometime.

MorphOS has Simplemail & YAM for email. They both look like they could handle it.

As far as an Image editor, does anyone know if the 68k version of Art Effect run on MorphOS?. I remember this program was pretty nice. I still have it here somewhere.....

[spihunter]

And how good is the best browser available?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser

It is based on webkit. Why it's not as good as safari or chrome?
Why it can't render google documents or gmail?

I'm not sure if it works with Gmail or Google docs?. I'll have to try it out this weekend and see. Maybe I'll try everything on my list there and see how it goes....