Is AROS the future of the Amiga?

[dammy]

My opinions:
Is AROS going to be the future of the Amiga platform? It slowly marches on, quitely gainly ground on functionality. It would seem it's just a matter of time before it turns the corner and becomes a powerhouse that runs on dead cheap and plentiful hardware. It went fairly unnoticed that AROS got it's first TCP/IP and ethernet driver. People who have not looked at AROS in some time would be wuite impressed. It's still not ready for prime time, but you get the impression it should be building a head of steam in the near future. AROS has now lived through how many owners? How many official changes of direction? How many ever believed it would get this far?

It's a community OS vs corporate OS.  Community takes longer and is usually rougher then corporate OSs as drive to code comes in waves and nulls.  Support groups, like TeamAROS tries to fill in and level out some of the more nasty valleys that tend to follow spikes of coding.  Two old bounties that were dropped are now back in active developement.  Good news for those of us who want FAT32 support and run AROS hosted on OS-X.

What will Amiga forums be talking about in 2007 or 2008? How about 2010?

You really know how to install fear in a guy, don't you. ;^)


Dammy

[dammy]

I downloaded aros and was very impressed... now time to play with it (need to get the latest release with TCP stack

I think CoolCat is planning AROS-Max 0.4.0 release in another two weeks.  That one is probably going to be the best one for tcp/ip and NIC drivers to try out.  

Oh, and Redrumloa has some nifty hardware that should work here.


Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

by LinchpiN on 2005/2/9 13:11:19

I got a realtec RTL8129 PCI card... that chipset is supported right?

Unfortunetly, no.  Only RTL that is currently supported is 8029.  I will hope some kind Dev will port rtl8139, eventually.  So many chipsets, so little time.  The only new networking chipset, that I know of, is being worked on is under a Bounty #27, support for nForce2 NIC.  I do encourage everyone to either drop a few Euros in this or create a new bounty for a given chipset to make arosTCP more end user useful.

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

by HopperJF on 2005/2/12 7:57:25

I really like the look of AROS and how things are coming along, but I would prefer it if they made a PPC version that could run on PPC Macs & Amigas.

A step in the direction has been started again, TeamAROS has an active Bounty #15, AROS hosted on OS-X.

Dammy
TeamAROS