Why Am I excited about Icaros?

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AROS is a good thing true.  It give hobbyists something more to play with, a chance to relive the Amiga experience on modern equipment, but it also locks it's developments into the late '80s/early '90s.  

In the end it's all about enjoying your hobby and not worrying about justifying it, it's becoming more ad more likely that I will need to part with my old Amigas before they die, if I do it'll still be fun to have AROS around to play with, providing the Amiga experience on discarded PC hardware, or perhaps as a VMWare machine.

[persia]

Putting together the posts on this and on other boards, it appears there was an argument over the future of AROS between those who wanted to continue AROs intial goal of a modernised clone of AmigaOS 3.1 and those that wanted to update AmigaOS into what it might have become had CBM had survived.  

Those who wanted to stay with the goal of a 3.1 re-implementation won and the losing side split.  They started a Source Forge group called ARIX and began talking.  It appears they've taken a more radical  turn and now want to create an Amiga-like Linux.  

Think of it as DragonFly BSD 2.

[persia]

Ok, I was not going to like this, I'd looked at AROS before and wasn't impressed ...but... this isn't just AROS and it's one nice package.  Well done to the Icaros folks.