"AROS is free but barely runs on anything"
Aros runs on just about any pc, but the trick is selecting a suitable supported soundcard,network card and video card.
An sb live is 10$ on ebay, and solves amost any problems with sound you may experience. Same goes for network, pick up an intel network card for 10$ on ebay.
A list of supported video cards is also available, pick one, install it in the machine and you can get accellerated video working fine. I got a supported nvida card for 20$ on ebay.
Its much like linux at its start, when you had to make sure you had supported hardware. I can rememeber building a few pc's for linux back in the day from a list of supported hardware components.
Writing drivers for every sound,network and video card imaginable is just not feasable for aros. Pick up an sblive,intel network card and a supported video card, and Aros runs like a dream. If installing a video,network card and soundcard is not within your technical skills, then maybe you should stick to mac or windows.
You can get a 2-3ghz dell (or any pc) on ebay for 50$ add another 50$ for supported sound, video and network card, and for 100$ or so total you have an AROS system that runs rings around any classic machine, and any OS4 machine too, for that matter.
As far as the bickering, some of it is for good reasons. Some people insist on ppc, while others say intel is the way to go, and so on. People like different things. If you ask me, we should all be happy we have 3 choices.
I have the most experience with aros, but I have to say MorphOS looks awesome, and when I have the extra cash, I will be getting myself a mac mini or imac to run morph os on.
As far as OS4, its too expensive for such a crappy slow computer, but thats just my opinion, I wish them, and all their users the best.
Steven
