Open Source Amiga OS

[ElPolloDiabl]

You can download individual upgrades from Aminet. Or if you want the whole thing free, wait for AROS.

Open source is great, it means no one can ever shelve it and abandon it. Like what happened to Amithlon.

If your asking... Could you buy OS 4.1 and Amithlon and sell them both at $20 with no hardware lock in?

[ElPolloDiabl]

I can vouch for having an easy Linux install. I wrote it to DVD, so I didn't have to fiddle with a USB install. After about half an hour KDE was up with all drivers installed.
 Also heaps of third party apps like mp3 player, pdf reader etc.
 It takes about two menu clicks to search for all the installed apps and remove the ones you don't want.

Compared to Windows 7, I have to install the ATI drivers, the sound drivers and also the network drivers.
  I will spend the next hour uninstalling features, installing third party software and adjusting all the default settings.

[ElPolloDiabl]

It's about bottlenecks. CPU to cache. CPU to RAM. RAM to hard drive.
It's also about bloat. A Windows 7 install is 10GB. There are about 40 processes running before you install anything.
If you can hack the OS, you might be able to turn off some of the processes that are slowing things down.
Are you running on an SSD? Very fast for the OS.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Amiga also has forks. From the beginning people wanted non-Amiga features.

I like things like enhanced icons and hi-res desktop. I don't like pop-up help. I didn't like pop-up menus, but I don't mind them now.

If you want to remain Amiga pure, everything should remain simple. Any adjustments should be put in and done in the prefs. The startup-sequence should remain editable.

I think some people would hijack AmigaOS and turn it into Windows, while still calling it Amiga OS. I can guess that the only reason is out of spite, or else they would be using Windows.

Thanks, I'm with the let's dumb down Amiga and add as much bloat as possible crowd. When it reaches 10GB in install size people will be saying, "When are they going ditch some of the legacy drivers. It makes the OS slow."

[ElPolloDiabl]

The coldfire is interesting, but cold you get the same speed from 68060
at 100mhz?
While we are at it can we have an FPGA implentation of AGA for people still on an A500 or A2000. If you can get at least a 1000 people interested, the project is worth doing.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I agree that some Linux apps are dodgy, but there are plenty that I like.

Having a bunch of free applications is better than having no applications. Or expecting someone to fork out $$$ to buy the same program they already have on Windows.

I don't think this is the place for a discussion on economics. You could download WinUAE which needs a nice interface before you could expect someone to pay for it.
Or you could end up paying $50 for some bloated DVD software that doesn't have region free options and other features that you would find on a free version.

[ElPolloDiabl]

This has gone bad because of the personal attacks against the people who use the above mentioned operating system.

You should have a debate without making personal attacks.

If someone has a complete loathing of Linux because it wouldn't install, I will leave that be.

It's like: Windows is buggy, I think I will try Linux.
 Linux wouldn't install, I will go back to Windows.