A new Amiga OS ??????

[AmigaHeretic]

dammy wrote:

yay.. yet another amigaish OS, just what we need... or maybe not

No, it's not Amigaish OS, it's an OS inspired by AOS.  The internals are completely different.

Dammy

Would be cool to have another OS to play around with.  'Inspired' by Amiga is a good thing in my opinion!  Hope it comes to fruition and maybe we can all test/play around with it.

I assume it's x86?  Site is down so I can't really check anything out so I have no idea if it's just an idea or if it's acutally "in the works" so to speak.  Are you planning on a bootable CD version?  

Have fun with it and I know I'll try to keep updated on it's progress.

[dammy]

I assume it's x86?

Most likely x86 and PPC.  The good Dr has EFIKA and SAM440 to use.  I'm always hopeful for a eventual ARM port myself.

Site is still down, but there isn't much to see except for bookmarking purposes when it's back up.  I expect to see some documentation on Anubis maybe this week spelling out what Anubis is and it's objectives.  

Dammy

[Argo]

Amiga styled window manager on top of Linux, that is what I've gathered from AROS-EXEC.

[Argo]

tonyyeb wrote:

dammy wrote:

I have a very good feeling about this, the goals are reasonable and within reach.  AROS had neither.

Dammy

Had?   :-o

 AROS has neither.

There fixed that.

[dammy]

Amiga styled window manager on top of Linux, that is what I've gathered from AROS-EXEC.

I hope I have this straight (yes, it's confusing to me as well):

No, Linux kernel -> amiga userland.  This is not YALD (Yet Another Linux Distro), after the Linux kernel boots, it calls a program Init.  Gfx sub system is xcb so x drivers can be used which means accelerated 2D/3D.  The programming interface similar (but not the same) to the one known from AROS system.

Dammy

[persia]

So are we talking Amithlon or a Linux window manager?

[dammy]

So are we talking Amithlon or a Linux window manager?

Not Amithlon, but Amithlon is an example.

Dammy

[tonyyeb]

I'm confused as to what this will be when it is released? So will it run any Amiga software? What makes it different from all the other OS's out there?

[Argo]

Given the description, I'd have to say not it will not run any Amiga software. Not without an emulator. It will, however, run all that modern software.

Basically, a I wan't a modern Amiga OS and I want it NOW! OS.

[tonyyeb]

Is there a 'market' for an OS that runs modern software but 'feels' like an Amiga... and doesn't run any Amiga software natively?

Either it's an Amiga or it aint!

[persia]

So basically it loads a linux kernel and cuts out to UAE running AmigaDos 3.9?

[weirdami]

dammy wrote:

So are we talking Amithlon or a Linux window manager?

Not Amithlon, but Amithlon is an example.

Dammy

H&P have nothing to do these days. Let's bring back Amithlon and see how far it gets.

[pixie]

Probably the Linux will be seen as anubis's hardware...

[dammy]

So basically it loads a linux kernel and cuts out to UAE running AmigaDos 3.9?

No, that is what Amithlon did (or as close as I can tell since I never used Amithlon).  Linux is a kernel with associated drivers (and whatever else you want to stuff in the kernel) and it calls init.  From that point on, there isn't much going to be comparable between Linux Distros and Anubis.

Dammy

[Argo]

No, I think their goals might be similar to Mac OS X.

[cicero790]

Well, if it works on MAC why not on Amiga.

I wish the project all well and looking very much forward to test it.