What are the advantages of Amiga...

[MikeCarter]

...over other operating systems such as Linux?

Im a RISC OS and Linux user my self, but iv recently became interested in Amiga OS.

[meega]

It works well with Amiga hardware, to do stuff...

Seriously, please expand on your initial question. And try playing with the OS in its machine. It's good.

[Oli_hd]

The key things for me is the kickstart, not needed to load the full GUI to play a game makes it like a games console to use yet with the full power of a PC when you need it. (Internet, word processing, etc)

Also the fact that amiga drivers are named simply, letting you know what they are just by looking, IE: Audio.device, scsi.device, ioblix.device etc.
It makes the whole system easy to manage, you know what file does what just by looking at it.
Other than that its just small, fast and well designed.

[adonay]

NONE...

[humppa]

@MikeCarter

Screen Dragging!  :-D

[Varthall]

From Hyperion's OS4 site:

20 best features
20 reasons to choose Amiga

Varthall

[TheMagicM]

pretty much games only.  

Comparing AOS to Linux is no comparison.. Linux dominates (my OS of choice).

[Hans_]

AmigaOS is fast and responsive even on low specced machines. I like the OS structure, and the APIs (for writing software) are cleaner than on other OSes. Just a pity that the software selection is rather limited these days.

Hans

[Piru]

@MikeCarter

Classic Amiga (as a hardware platform) has some good ol' games.

As an operating system AmigaOS is rather limited and outdated: No memory protection, no resource tracking, no POSIX stuff. Due to this AmigaOS lacks some important software, such as decent web browser, office suite and so on.

Anyhow, if you want to take a look, there is a relatively cheap way to do it (AmigaForever includes legal licensed AmigaOS files, and there are various way to use them. With linux system you can for example boot from the CD directly, or use E-UAE with the included OS files)

[itix]

In technical matters Amiga have no advantages over Linux. But using Amiga can be still fun and good hobby.

[Fransexy_]

itix wrote:
In technical matters Amiga have no advantages over Linux. But using Amiga can be still fun and good hobby.

In technical matters maybe no but in useful matters Amiga has  avantages jet.Try to do the same that AmigaOS do on 7 mhz 512k  with linux     :roll:

[TheMagicM]

sure Fran.. but who's going to want to boot up a 512k A500 to run Dpaint with very little ram left?  Or to do the same and run the boing ball and clock w/a CLI showing the 'dir' command output.. lol.

[humppa]

Try to do the same that AmigaOS do on 7 mhz 512k with linux

I think he was asking about advantages that are still relevant _today_.

[x56h34]

I can think of one! No need to gracefully shut-down. Just flip the power switch off. :-) ...providing that there is no disk activity going on, that is. :-)

[Tomas]

adonay wrote:
NONE...

So why are you even here if there is absolutely nothing positive about it?