New AmigaOS???

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dammy wrote:

You are joking, right?

No he isn't, he clearly understands what basing a new OS around a proven and modern kernel can give to the end user and what that will do to demand for OS4. I expect to see a WIP ISO release in January.

Hang on, one moment he's clueless, the next he's a calculating Troll?  Which one is it?

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Putting aside my amusement at this development after the postal beatings I got from certain members of the AROS community a couple of months ago regarding the direction of AROS and forking...

My only beef with the Linux kernal itself is the sometimes pain-in-the-arse way it deals with drivers.  Having as many drivers available as is possible is all well and good, but if your have to go through hell and back to get them working (or in some cases not) then it takes a bit of the shine away.

I'm looking at this project with much interest.  I have a Linux/X-Amiga box here ready and waiting to give it a go.  The main concern I have is if too much GNU (as in Linux/GNU not the GPL) stuff creeps in and it loses some of that amiganess.  Other OS projects seem to be unable to withstand the urge to become yet-another-Linux.  Only time will tell.

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bloodline wrote:

Not really sure what constitutes Amiganess anymore... The feeling I get when I fire up UAE or my Real Miggies... and then remember how bad we actually had it back in the old days...

Yeah, right on Brother - those Amigas were a nightmare.  I'm glad I have nothing more to do with those...oh wait... :roll:

Time marches on, it brings improvements and new problems.  We can do more now, we can do things far faster and far prettier, but does that mean that we were badly off back then? Of course not.

Looking at the Dock on my MacBook it's not far off what my Dock on my A1200 had when it was still my main machine, probably the most notable exception being Eclipse.