X Windows for Intel AROS?

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I think this would be in serious danger of suffering the OS/2 effect. IIRC IBM implemented a Windows compatibility layer to allow OS/2 to run Windows software. The result was fewer and fewer people developing OS/2 software. After all, who would write software which would only run on OS/2 when they could write software which runs on Windows *and* OS/2? Eventually OS/2 had none of its own software, and OS/2 died. The same could happen if AROS had support for running Linux software.

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moto

[motorollin]

shoggoth wrote:
Having the possibility to run unix stuff on your machine certantly makes it more useful, compared to the alternative.

The alternatives are using AROS with no software, or using Linux with lots of software, as opposed to using a kludged together hybrid of AROS and Linux. Personally, I would rather just use Linux.

shoggoth wrote:
I run Freemint on that other 68k platform from the same era, it's sort-of posix and features a simple X server. Still, I haven't noticed that this limits development in anyway, quite the contrary.

I assume you mean Atari? Are you saying that having an X server has encouraged people to develop *native* software for the platform rather than using a compatibility layer to run Unix software on top?

shoggoth wrote:
My impression is that compatibility with X or unix makes it easier to get port stuff to the "native" system as well. I realise that the case of hosted AROS + X + native X-apps isn't exactly similar, but it increases the usefullness of the OS drastically imho..

Only until people realise they could get exactly the same functionality (or better) by cutting out the middle-man (AROS) and using the software directly on Linux.

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moto