Dominant future AmigaOS? MOS vs OS4 vs AROS

[dammy]

by wonea on 2003/5/31 15:07:47

Been thinking it through what will win? To become the true successor of OS3.1.

AmigaOS4 has the name, development team, original core, and committed followers.

OS4 is not out yet and it's chained to A1.  A1 is pricey an may or may not have significant bugs still left in it.  A1 now runs Linux, which is a good thing.

MorphOS popular through actually producing the goods, excellent community work, and marketing.

MOS is chained (atleast for now, dunno if/when CS version will be released, or if it already has) to Peg1.  Peg1 is no longer in production but a upgraded Peg2 is due out in three months.  Pegs also have the ability to run Linux, and shortly AROS.  Hopefully OpenBEOS (or whichever Open Source Be clone is called) and bsd flavors won't be too far behind.

AROS the outsider, slowly mulling along till recently. Now with only a few features missing to bring it mainstream (development tools, 68k emulation, & internet enability). Plus being open source, and hardware availability/pricing are major bonuses as well.

AROS works on mulitple platforms, from x86 to ARM and hopefully PPC shortly.  UAE has been ported.  There is a far amount of hope that network capability will be added by the end of this summer.

All in all, I would say MOS and AROS are most likely to survive.  OS4's release will be the life or death of it.  That is if Amiga Inc does not fall into hands that are not friendly to OS4, else all bets are off as it's sure to die.

Dammy

[dammy]

by seer on 2003/5/31 19:17:34

Maye Hyperion / Genesi should show their OS to Nasa, they could be intersted in a stable / fast booting OS (Note; not the current hardware)..

NASA has bought some small RTOS in the past for their projects.  But this would mean OS4/MOS would have to go head to head with the likes of River Wind and QNX which have years (decades?) of experience ahead of Hyperion and Genesi.

Which brings up a question, is either OS4 or MOS  a proper RTOS or are they not even close to that standard?

Dammy

[dammy]

by DaveP on 2003/6/1 7:22:36

Id also like to know if you have used OS4 and if so, which build?

MOS is inferior in its usability to AOS3.5/9 in at the least the Ambient stakes ( based on an over the shoulder waggle or twenty with the mouse ) and from my experience of OS4 *very* inferior to that.

But maybe you mean something else?

Then again, OS4 is inferior to AROS because OS4 is *vaporware*.    Until iOS4 released to the public, it's going to remain inferior to any OS, even Windows.

Dammy