www.anubis-os.org finally open

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No chicken is safe!

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Yawn,  come back when you have an operating system and we'll see.  The Amiga world is full of empty promises and non-existent products.  Give me something I can load on a computer and I'll try it, until then it's safest to consider it vapour.

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As I said, I'm happy to take a look at anything they might develop, but let's see something before we get our knickers wet.

I presume the demo will be a VMWare image?

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It appears to be an attempt to build the AmigaOS that might have been had the company that produced the Amiga survived.  We'll see if this ever hits the streets.   An interesting idea, even if it never makes it.

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I think part of the negativity is based on the fact that the majority of things promised in the Amiga world don't make it to reality and the few that do take forever to get there.  It also has to do with our dwindling numbers being split in yet another direction.  

Using the best of assumptions it will be years before a usable ARIX emerges and in the mean time the horizon that is modern computing becomes further and further away.  I look at Haiku OS, it would have been great to have had it five years ago, but today they have yet to provide a usable image and the OS just feels old.  AROS too, feels limited too, it's CLI limited compared to a BASH shell and it really still is unable to deal with the real world of MP3 players, Smart Phones and the internet in a comfortable way.

In an age when I can boot off my pen drive is the ability to call it "Sys:" really all that important?

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If drivers are the main driver for Arix, then why not use a ReactOS kernel.

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Since they are using OSX as the model, presumably, if they ever get to a release stage, they will be able to launch X11 from within Arix, just like you launch X11 from within OS X.

Similarly OS X has Carbon, which links back to the pre-OS X days and Cocoa, the NeXT framework that has just about buried Carbon.

So presumably Arix will contain a Carbon equivalent that will support old Amiga APIs and a Cocoa based on some new framework.  Now Apple had thousands of full time programmers to take on the task, Arix has a couple part time hobbyists, so we'll just have to wait and see wether they can deliver a champagne OS on a water budget...

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It's evolving into a Linux distro, problem is there's already a Linux distro named Anubis.  Are the still thinking Obj C?  It's a great language, I use it myself, but I question it's value outside OS X.

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Frankly it doesn't look good, I'd put it in the category of probable vapourware.  It's hard to generate interest in yet another Linux distro, I remember when I worked on a Linux distro it was so hard to keep it going and that was before Canonical and it's Ubuntu distro. It must be evenharder today.

hm. from what i remember the talk of anubis was for some time here, in fact for almost a year already. if so far nothing was actually done in this field except talking about, which is the only clue available on their website, i dont think the future looks very bright.

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It's a bit like nailing jelly to a wall.  They are still discussing design so it is more of a concept than an OS.  They appear to be discussing retaining X Windows now as well as existing windows managers, so when does a Linux kernel with X stop being a Linux distro?  

They left a bad taste in my mouth with the phony pictures of computers running their OS, when it was just a jpeg.  This is not the way to build consumer confidence!

Why label Anubis a Linux distribution? Is Mac OS X a BSD/Mach distribution?

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As I said, you can't really say what something that doesn't exist is like.  The new specs read more like a Linux distro, but given that there is no product behind the specs, that could change.....

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If the operating environment doesn't expose any of the interfaces to X or the Linux kernel, how would you even know (without probing) that you're running on Linux? Is Amithlon a Linux distribution? By the "Linux kernel equals Linux distribution" definition it is, but it doesn't behave anything like a Linux distribution in the traditional sense.

I haven't been keeping up with the specifications, so I'm likely biased by my own opinions about how such an Amiga-like system should be designed.