Amiga OS 5 prediction

[Steril707]

OS 5 ?  :lol:






















 :-D haha

[Steril707]

But Apple had hardware as well to support their Unix driven OS, giving some identity to the whole thing.

An Unix based Amiga OS is still uninteresting to the average Joe imo.

I see two variants of the Future Amigas:

The classic one: Stuff like Clone-A and to a lesser extent the Minimig, blown up as hard as possible for performance and being able to connect to more modern peripherals like VGA and PS2. Imagine a monster turbo classic AGA Amiga with a proper gfx card already built in and some other goodies. I think a lot of people would like that.

The modern approach: AROS on PPC or i386.  I simply don't see Amiga INC in Business a few years later, and i cannot imagine Hyperion, even if they win the court case, to go on working on something as niche as an Amiga OS by themselves one more time for OS 5. So it's open source AROS, or nothing.

[Steril707]

ne_one wrote:

Steril707 wrote:
An Unix based Amiga OS is still uninteresting to the average Joe imo

I 100% agree with you on this point.

And who exactly falls into the demographic of an "Average Joe"? Most consumers don't know the difference between a computer chip and a potato chip let alone the core technology that the operating system is based on.

If by "Average Joe" you mean Amiga fanatic circa 1992 you're correct because they believe that all good operating systems and computing platforms are made by elves at the North Pole.

No, i mean ->the average Joe<- not being concerned about Amiga at all, that's what we talk about here, isn't it?..Why should they prefer an Amigafied version(if it's more than a window decoration and boing ball backgroundpic), of Linux to something thats already supported by the masses and some weird guy in the background like Ubuntu, or has a dedicated ->real<- company backing it up like SUSE.

Plus, you will just piss off the few people left who want their Amiga OS being a genuine Amiga OS (=the Amiga elves from 1992).

But why bother? In a year or two AROS will be functional enough to please what's left of the Amiga elves.