Why Am I excited about Icaros?

[amigakidd]

It is the linux of the amiga community. I believe aros and the fork of aros called Icaros will mature in the years to come.

Anyone watch the movie called Revolution OS? The same thing is happening right now with AROS. Imagine in the far future, AROS and Icaros to sit with Windows, Mac, Linux, to be mainstream alternative os.

AROS and Icaros does not need to compete with Vista or Leopard. It is good at what it does: To serve and continue the Amiga Community.

I just hope that there are APIs to will support cloud based computing.

AROS Family has potential to bring the Amiga community foreward. I support them.

[cicero790]

Well spoken.  :-)

[4pLaY]

amigakidd wrote:
It is the linux of the amiga community. I believe aros and the fork of aros called Icaros will mature in the years to come.

Icaros is not a fork of aros, it is only a distro that is polished and includes lots of pre installed software.

[Piru]

I guess he means Anubis.

Regardless I don't exactly share his enthusiasm.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Piru wrote:
I guess he means Anubis.

Regardless I don't exactly share his enthusiasm.

And this is a very fine thread to explain, in a civilised manner, why. :-)

[bloodline]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Piru wrote:
I guess he means Anubis.

Regardless I don't exactly share his enthusiasm.

And this is a very fine thread to explain, in a civilised manner, why. :-)

I have little enthusiasm for anything Amiga these days, but AROS is still fun and Icarus is the best way to have fun with AROS.

Anubis probably won't amount to too much, but is is the only and best hope that the Amiga concept has to continue... Because of it I have spent a lot of time reading up about Unix, and you really have to see just how antiquated AmigaOS is!!

Both Anubis and AROS bring a smile to my face :-)

[dammy]

Regardless I don't exactly share his enthusiasm.

I'll bite, what does share your enthusiasm?

Dammy

[kolla]

bloodline wrote:

Anubis probably won't amount to too much, but is is the only and best hope that the Amiga concept has to continue... Because of it I have spent a lot of time reading up about Unix, and you really have to see just how antiquated AmigaOS is!!

Surely you mean just how antiquated Unix is. :-)

[Einstein]

kolla wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Anubis probably won't amount to too much, but is is the only and best hope that the Amiga concept has to continue... Because of it I have spent a lot of time reading up about Unix, and you really have to see just how antiquated AmigaOS is!!

Surely you mean just how antiquated Unix is. :-)

If memory protection and security are antique practices and a task-switching utility API prohibiting those practices is the future then I must be living in wonderland

[persia]

AROS is a good thing true.  It give hobbyists something more to play with, a chance to relive the Amiga experience on modern equipment, but it also locks it's developments into the late '80s/early '90s.  

In the end it's all about enjoying your hobby and not worrying about justifying it, it's becoming more ad more likely that I will need to part with my old Amigas before they die, if I do it'll still be fun to have AROS around to play with, providing the Amiga experience on discarded PC hardware, or perhaps as a VMWare machine.

[DiskDoctor]

@ amigakidd

AROS Family has potential to bring the Amiga community foreward. I support them.

Let us not forget about AmigaOS and MorphOS; when some mainstream hardware gains their (either of) support, their impact will not go overlooked.

@ bloodline

Anubis probably won't amount to too much, but is is the only and best hope that the Amiga concept has to continue... Because of it I have spent a lot of time reading up about Unix, and you really have to see just how antiquated AmigaOS is!!

My idea about Anubis is like breaking AROS to pieces.  Why did AROS people start another project?  Do they consider AROS finished? Or they simply abandoned the project... Because of what? What for?? Lots of people to develop AROS anyway?

I think those people should rather focus on AROS drivers for notebook computers.  Don't know how much % of nowadays PCs are notebooks, unsupported by AROS...

BTW I wouldn't mind that Anubis won't amount to too much. What I ask myself is WHEN will Anubis amount to anything?

[murple]

amigakidd wrote:
It is the linux of the amiga community.

I would've thought Linux was the Linux of the Amiga community... especially since (Ic)AROS won't even run on Amiga.

[persia]

Putting together the posts on this and on other boards, it appears there was an argument over the future of AROS between those who wanted to continue AROs intial goal of a modernised clone of AmigaOS 3.1 and those that wanted to update AmigaOS into what it might have become had CBM had survived.  

Those who wanted to stay with the goal of a 3.1 re-implementation won and the losing side split.  They started a Source Forge group called ARIX and began talking.  It appears they've taken a more radical  turn and now want to create an Amiga-like Linux.  

Think of it as DragonFly BSD 2.

[DiskDoctor]

persia wrote:

Those who wanted to stay with the goal of a 3.1 re-implementation won and the losing side split.  They started a Source Forge group called ARIX and began talking.  It appears they've taken a more radical  turn and now want to create an Amiga-like Linux.

Amiga-like Linux ain't Amiga-like system. It's a Linux distro.

[Einstein]

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