Is AROS the future of the Amiga?

[redrumloa]

Please keep this thread clean, with no 'hYpErIoN rOxXxX U fOOl' or 'McBill mows my lawn'. I'd rather this stay serious based on facts and potential senerios.

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?

MorphOS - dead.
Classic - will never die, but long since religated to hobyists.
A1/OS4 - As long as it's married to the current hardware, it's users will remain in the low thousands, very low. Officially it is still a beta prerelease, though overall the users seem quite happy with OS4 but pleasure with hardware is another story. How long can Hyperion develop as a charity? Am I missing something? I just don't see a long term future with it married to a single $1000 motherboard, especially considering even a higher spec mac is less than half price for a full computer.

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

[Linchpin]

Red..

'hYpErIoN rOxXxX U fOOl'

Hahaha!

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

[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

[Effy]

Future for Amiga Possibly a Cell technologies based accelerator card for the 68k series ?!

[Linchpin]

I think not :-D

But, i wonder how fast say an a1200 with RTG and a 1ghz CPU would go ...

Cell powered Amigaone would be cool tho :-D

[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

[bloodline]

Is AROS the future of the Amiga?

Hmmm... Good question... It's certainly the future of my Amiga... but then I doubt many people here doubt that :-D

I hope that people will enjoy using AROS, even if it isn't their main Amgia experience :-)

[that_punk_guy]

AROS is the future of AROS. Amiga is dead. :-D

;-)

[Linchpin]

Amiga is dead

... Says mr Positivity in the amiga community :-D

[Linchpin]

@ Dammy

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

[that_punk_guy]

LinchpiN wrote:

Amiga is dead

... Says mr Positivity in the amiga community :-D

Well, there's positivity and then there's mindless optimism. ;-)

But I kid. I hope no-one takes that the wrong way. :-)

[Linchpin]

I was only joking man!

(Hence the big "doomy blue grin" )

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[itix]

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

Hmm... AROS splits into two camps and users are killing each others.

[DethKnight]

long term future with it married to a single $1000 motherboard

IMHO if I were to chose the "motherboard-dongle" I would have chosen the YTBD Playstation3.
(but that's with the grand assumption of several intangibles)

[DFergATL]

I hope it is the future or at least a close second.  I do wish OS4 all the best.  However, for me at least, I have been burnt twice.  Once when Commadore went bust and then when BeOS went belly up.  I simply find it hard to trust a coperation trying to put out a desktop OS.  There are so many things in the way.  In the case of the new Amiga, I think it is the hardware.  It is just so outdated and expensive.  It is unlikly that the scale of economics will ever allow them to compete price wise..  I honestly wish more of the Amiga community would take part in Aros, but that is just me...  If it were ready I would use it in a heartbeat.  If there was commerical software for it, I would buy it...  I am probably not the only one....  There are so many talented devlopers in this community.  Can you image what Aros would be like if more of them were working on it??  It would ROCK!!