Open Source Amiga OS

[OlafS3]

That is disappointing, AOS would run on a 68000 and 512K ram, what more does AROS do to justify the faster cpu and 6M ram?

Aros was developed for and on X86 and never intended to be run on 20 years old hardware :-)

So it is not optimized for classic hardware whereas AmigaOS (classic) was and is tightly connected to the old hardware and parts of the OS were in the ROM to save memory. Try to run anything modern on A500, if you find anything you can show it to me because I would like to see it.

There is certainly still room for improvement in AROS 68k and the Kickstart Replacement but I do not believe that it will ever work on a 1 MB A500.

[OlafS3]

I only talk about open source and closed source in context of amiga

to use Microsoft and Windows 8 as a good example for the advantage of closed source is too strange to me.

open source and closed source both have advantages and disadvantages. The most obvious advantage of closed source have we all seen on a lots of times (abandoned software), that is of course the biggest advantage of opensource. Of course are most closed source projects partly or full commercial so the developer are perhaps more motivated to get a good package out. Opensource developer do the parts they like and it is more difficult to get a good package out. But generally I personal would say OS and basic applications like browser should be opensource.

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

[OlafS3]

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.

[OlafS3]

we have more than two "closed source" OSs? Which?

[OlafS3]

I of course thought of living OS (in development). AmigaOS (68k) is heavily patched but no sources and either no team developing it.

[OlafS3]

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