A new Amiga OS ??????

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So are we talking Amithlon or a Linux window manager?

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So basically it loads a linux kernel and cuts out to UAE running AmigaDos 3.9?

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OS X moved the Mac environment from it old base to a FreeBSD one.  But FreeBSD is still there under the hood.  I can load X Windows and run X Windows based programs in OS X.  Also the link to classic was maintained by a classic environment, a sort of OS 9 in a box until it was no longer needed and then it was removed.

So what you are talking about is a Linux running a cloned Amiga environment on top with an integrated classic (OS 3.9) emulator?

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I agree, it seems more pipe dream than reality based.  How is this different than AROS except you are starting with a Linux Kernel?  And why Linux anyway?  It's a monolithic kernel, which seems sort of opposite the Amiga ideal...

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So basically AROS with a kernel transplant?  Sounds a bit ambitious to me.  ANy you've got two people to work on it?

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Yep, the death of AROS I'm afraid.  Instead of one never ending project we'll have two.  Makes no sense but such is the open source world, you can't tell people where to spend there time, even if it's a waste, it's their time to waste...

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You aren't going to be able to run a modern os on 68K based machines, I can't see how a back port would be possible.  Also it would be nice to see it on QNX which is Microkernel based and much more designed to the Amiga ideal.

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Yep, they want to keep the bad things about the linux kernel (monolithic architecture) and throw away the good thing (all the tools, languages and XOrg).  You'd be better off fixing the kernel in Linux rather than mucking around in the bits that are mature.

Amiga folks seem to think that the years still start with 19...

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I think it's a shame that AROS developers are being syphoned off to do a new Linux distro, Linux distros are so boring, I've worked on one of them, but never again, it's just not fun.  I also started