you may use the search function of the forums to search for 10000 similar threads where a lot of reasons for this are explained.. I don't want to discuss this here or start a flamewar, but 1st you can't compare OS4 with linux, and 2nd hyperion make os4 and they know their capabilities very well and they will have their reasons for not going x86.. this has been discussed to death now both on amiga.org and on other sites.. if you want amiga on x86, install winuae and os3.9, this will give you a very fast amigaOS plus more compatibility than os4 plus you can use every windoze app out there..