AROS vs traditional Amiga vs SAM

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paolone wrote:

3. Since I use both AROS and AmigaOS 4.1 I can see their pros and they cons. There are things better done in AmigaOS 4.1, but also things that were better made on AROS. For istance, try to place a PC cdrom on both operating systems, and while in AmigaOS you'll be forced to choose "all files" view in the Window menu, AROS will choose this view automatically, due to a precise design decision took while developing it (AROS uses view > all files on any volume that has no amiga disk.icon file in its root - this will be helpful when Michal has completed his mass storage bounty too).

Well, gee... you need a bounty to change envarc:sys/def_disk.info? :roll:

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Piru wrote:
Yes. Even easier. For example with Mac OS X you just doubleclick the label and type the new name.



There is nothing for the OS to remember. The filesystem has been relabeled, of course the new name will appear. This works with every OS that has USB, massstorage and FAT support.

I dont find double-clicking the labelname particularly intuitive, and looking from the accidently renamed files/volumes I find on other people's macs, it's not really usefull.

Anyhow... what I really like with amiga systems, is that you can remove a device with programs still open on it, the OS wont panick, nor will it kill the programs or anything other nasty stuff. It will just ask the user to insert the disk/whatever when needed, recognise it and move on. Try that with windows, OSX, linux etc.

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bloodline wrote:

Only the AmigaOS designers felt the need for offline filesystems... AROS supports this feature too...

While I miss the feature, which I'm used to from the Amiga days... I'm not sure it's actually a useful feature anymore... and is actually somewhat inconsistent design...

Obviously you dont own gadgets that people around you feel they need to have a look at. I can tell you, owning a linux phone or pda with mounted memory card is a  f*in PITA.

I also very often want to just rip out usb devices without having to dismount.. oh no busy, close program, still busy, change cwd of a shell... finally not busy, dismount, rip out. Really, i find this issue a total mess on all so called modern systems.