Open Source Amiga OS

[Iggy]

See http://aros.sourceforge.net/ and http://aros-exec.org/

An open source reimplementation of Amiga OS 3.1.  Currently has versions that run on x86, PPC, and 68k.

Well, a reimplementation of the API anyway.
And after all that trouble, what would you have?
An open source variant of an OS over two decades old?
Doesn't sound all that usefull.

What wrong with using the closed source version that makes you interested in this idea.

[Iggy]

Hahaha, you don't know freetards do you.

Baffles me. AROS is  already free. And how closed can it be?
Its got a multitude of developers.
Only the two primary PPC variants of the OS3.1 API are closed.

[Iggy]

See, freetards don't think that way. In the Gospel According to Stallman, all proprietary software is capital-E Evil, and the goal of all software is (obviously) to metamorphosize into a Free Software Alternative, probably with four different variants depending on whose UI toolkit is the Free-est at the moment, two separate Windows ports for the poor benighted peons stuck on Proprietary Software, and eleven abandoned forks, at least one of which was an attempt to "integrate social media features."

Thus saith Lord Stallman!

One of the advantages to a proprietary systemi is that decisions get made by a small, more cohesive group.
So far I have good experiences with the decisions the MorphOS development team has made.
I'm typing this on a MorphOS system right now.

[Iggy]

@commodorejohn

If you love closed source you must be an Apple fan....

Which is based on FreeBSD which is fairly open.

More so than Amiga OS.

[Iggy]

Definitely past time to close this thread.

[Iggy]

@ slaapliedje
I don't have any real animosity for open source software or it users and developers.
I've just never been completely satisfied with most of what I've used.
Most of it feels incomplete.
I did enjoy Ubuntu for awhile, and then they went out of their way to screw that project up.
As far as I'm concerned, use what works for you.
I'm seriously considering adopting Pascal's Aeros operating system (I've been exchanging some messages with him about what he wants to use as a base and what hardware might be supported).

So its not a completely open source Amiga like system, its close.

[Iggy]

when people here use Windows as example it is really not realistic.

Hey, I bought a copy of Windows 7 and never installed it.
I still fall back to an XP system when I need to use Windows.
And frighteningly enough, Microsoft is still updating and supporting that OS (years after they said they were going to drop support).

At this point, instead of going to Win8, I might as well wait for ReactOS.

[Iggy]

I use Windows too (both XP and 7) but this cannot be compared to the amiga market (if it is called so) with its "limited" developerbase behind the closed source projects (expecially the both OSs). But that is a matter of taste and personal preferences.

Both?
I thought we had at least three.
I just picked to most polished one.
I could adopt one of the others if I saw a clear advantage.