Actually, on multicore machines a microkernel design would work best.. You also seemed have missed that Windows is microkernel based, OSX uses mach in its layers of "stuff apple bought"... and biggest omission is a pretty major one; Barely any support for graphics hardware comes from the kernel in Linux.
Ough, coff, coff... any decision you'll take, you'll have to read the rants of people that DO NOTHING but repeating that there are better ways to do things.
Well, maybe, but none has done them: so we're again at the starting point. Do you think microkernels are better options? So create your own AmigaOS dialect based on a microkernel, choose the one you want and DO IT. The day Anubis will be ready and a complete mess, you'll probably prove to be right. But before this will happen, just look at what come out like me and others are doing, it's clever.
The Amiga community is at this dismission point just because it is too much interested in stupid religion wars (the red versus the blues, the microkernel versus the monolithic one, the PPC versus the X86, Goldrake versus Mazinger and so on...), instead of DOING THINGS. I respect who DOES THINGS.
Give it up. You think you going to do better than the thousands and thousands of active developers the major operating systems, Xorg, KDE, Gnome etc etc have? Maybe you could ebay a reality check.
Where have I read this long ago? Ooooh, don't tell me... I have it... YES!!! That was when someone started talking about that wasteful "Amiga Replacement Operating System": it can't be done, they said. Well: that's here. Nobody said Anubis should be ready in two weeks.
It doesn't matter what platform you develop on anymore, most people use the gnu compilers, the gnu libraries. It isn't the 1980's anymore, wake up.
Haven't you noticed that's EXACTLY WHY the Anubis project has been started on? Not only people use the gnu compilers and libraries, but they also use Mozilla (instead of Ibrowse), OpenOffice, Photoshop, Gimp, Premiere and countless other modern applications that will NEVER be available for AmigaOS (and also for AROS and MorphOS) due to their structural limitations and scarce diffusion.
It's time to understand what can and can't be done, and move further. If we can have best of both worlds, well, I'll be happy with it. But I won't stay here forever, in front of my SAM with AmigaOS 4.1 and its couple of tiny apps, repeating to myself how this wonderful operating system is, and how unlucky we are. The day someone will give me a linux-based AmigaOS clone with modern feature and stronger API, I will be happy.
