AROS has no chance in the future if...

[iamaboringperson]

*It doesn't use memory protection.
*It doesn't take advantage of SMP.
*It isn't multi-user.
*It doesn't go 64-bit eventually

It would also be nice if it had a half-decent web-browser and office suite.

[iamaboringperson]

@AmigaEd

You're a preexisting user.

What I mean is, AROS in comptetion, and AROS gaining new users.
I can't say that AROS has a definite future (in the computing world), when I'm only considering current AmigaOS, MorphOS, and AROS users.

Remember back when the Amiga had all sorts of music, television, and movie industry users?

That doesn't seem to be something that's going to happen again.

It's not going to win over any new users. In other words, it's strictly an Amiga/Alternative OS hobbiest(sp?) OS.

And that's how it will probably remain.

[iamaboringperson]

Some basic steps have started on this issue. I really don't see this moving forward until after Michal's x86_64 kernel is released and backported to x86 kernel. There are issues of those wanting multi-user enviroment (I'm one of those) and those who want single user enviroment so it's going to be a compromise between the two at the end of the day. Fortunetly for AROS, it has some very clever developers who can find that compromise.

I've been thinking about that part for years.

I wouldn't mind getting involved in the MU stuff in the future. :-)

[iamaboringperson]

One thing I see very often, are companies/organisations which use x86 and MS-Win for POS and kiosks.

That bothers me - for numerous reasons.

AROS would be a great to use with these machines.

Perhaps it would be great if a group of AROS enthusiests were to get together and workout how to market (and actually sell) OS's to these kinds of users.

Certainly if it had memory protection and a decent built in TCP/IP stack it would be great for these types of applications.

Of course, it would also probably need some included tech. support, and a hell of a lot of 'how to program for' material. That would be the hard part.

But overall it would be better than buying 100's/1000's/10,000's MS-Windows licencess, IMHO.