Why Am I excited about Icaros?

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@ amigakidd

AROS Family has potential to bring the Amiga community foreward. I support them.

Let us not forget about AmigaOS and MorphOS; when some mainstream hardware gains their (either of) support, their impact will not go overlooked.

@ bloodline

Anubis probably won't amount to too much, but is is the only and best hope that the Amiga concept has to continue... Because of it I have spent a lot of time reading up about Unix, and you really have to see just how antiquated AmigaOS is!!

My idea about Anubis is like breaking AROS to pieces.  Why did AROS people start another project?  Do they consider AROS finished? Or they simply abandoned the project... Because of what? What for?? Lots of people to develop AROS anyway?

I think those people should rather focus on AROS drivers for notebook computers.  Don't know how much % of nowadays PCs are notebooks, unsupported by AROS...

BTW I wouldn't mind that Anubis won't amount to too much. What I ask myself is WHEN will Anubis amount to anything?

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persia wrote:

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.

Amiga-like Linux ain't Amiga-like system. It's a Linux distro.

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@ cicero790

cicero790 wrote:
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In one of your first posts you asked if there was something useful that had to be done with programming (if i remember right), so I guess you are a dev. Port Cinnamon to aros or some other word processor. That  would be great. Get hold of a used PC and install icAROS.

Well I am not a dev but I can do some dev :-).

My focus would be rather on a brand new spreadsheet application.

Encoding doc files should not be difficult since OO sources are available.  It's a matter of writing say rich text-supporting application (unless there is one dumping to rtf). Then you only have to wrap the whole thing in an OLE doc bundle.

Also, word processors exist on Amiga, they should be outputting something understandable PC format.

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cicero790 wrote:
you're free to pursue any project of course.
I think the spreadsheet Ignition is being worked on.

Gotta check it out sure, but doesn't look good from screenshots :-)

I want to make something new, extremely useful and easy to use.  Something I was planning (and actually started) on MacOSX until infamous Apple outnumbered me with their new iWork 08 Numbers :-(

Final Writer 5 can export to rtf, acsii,html and its native format.
Problem is this does not come with icaros. It needs a word processor of it own.

What's the problem to include one? The license? I don't get it. Is this one free or what?

If you  could get icaros going and test it out, inspiration may follow. :-)

OK but for the time being I got only VMWare hosted AROS... OK.