All the more reason for Amiga OS to move over to x86. Amiga was designed as a desktop OS.
I'm not sure if you could poach a lot of AROS to speed up the process. Let's suppose it takes ten years... In ten years PowerPC (available to us) might advance one more generation, but x86 will advance probably six generations.
A computer is your entry point to the digital world, it would be nice to have a nice operating system to put on it.
It actually doesn't bother me if the two PowerPc OSes never come to x86, AROS seems to be gaining momentum and Windows is looking very one dimensional in it's approach. We may look back at this time, "That gawd awful Windows era."
See that's the funny thing, at this current moment in time nobody really needs Windows at all (which is why Mac OS machines are selling so well now).
PC Gaming is dead (the only real reason you needed Windows).
Most stuff is web based activity like Facebook etc.
You can play movies/music on just about anything
You can even talk to MSN people on an Amiga
Torrenting is possible on anything with a reasonable speed CPU and LAN config.
So really if ChromeOS didn't have such a stupid GUI (a browser is your GUI!!!)
But nobody steps up to produce an alternative all-in-one solution for sale in shops other than Apple really.
How many people would actually wipe a 'free' copy of Windows from their PC to install a paid for replacement OS like AmigaOS x86 they had to buy in the grand scheme of billions of machines currently in use worldwide?
In that sense the free installs of AROS have the best chance of success, not MOS or OS4 converted to x86 IMO.
