I'm a operating system enthusiast. I've been a NeXT guy since early 1997, using OPENSTEP 4.2 on my primary workstation from 1997-2002, when I bought my first Power Mac, and I've been using OS X since. I usually have a FreeBSD box around as well, and have spent considerable time with linux, Be and Solaris over the years as well.
I have had a strong compulsion toward Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS ever since I first started reading about them, years ago. I have never shelled out the money for a box that would run either, because I couldn't justify the expense. It's hard to get approval from finance (the wife) for things like this after kids come along.
I am really jonesing for a sam440 so I can run OS 4, and I am hoping now that Genesi has gone ARM that MorphOS will get ported to sam so I could run both systems on it. It seems a nicer alternative to me than running a 5 year old box (pegasos II).
So anyway, here's my question. Having missed the Amiga boat back in it's heyday, and joining the NeXT/Apple camp 10+ years ago, as a guy with a NeXT and unix background, am I going to like the Amiga experience in the first place? I love how fast these systems boot to a usable desktop, and I love the idea of how resource-friendly they are- it's one of the reasons I strongly prefer BSD to linux. I also think that both systems have lovely GUIs. But as a unix guy, am I going to "get" the whole Amiga thing once I get there?
Appreciate your opinions, thanks in advance.
