New forums for AROS

[falemagn]

A forum site specific for AROS has been set up here, visit it, and leave your comments about AROS there!

[Dagon]

Well I think that the forum for users is better than the mailing list. People tend to prefer writing in a forum rather than subscribing in a  yet another mailing list (well this is not a yet another or an ordinary mailing list, Its AROS=special :-D)

[stychokiller]

After reading some of the status & documentation
on their new website, I believe that the AROS project has strayed far away from their original
intention of writing an equivalent of the Amiga OS 3.1.  Instead, they're trying to incorporate improvements from OS3.5 & 3.9 & make the entire
project work on any set of hardware out there.
At that rate, they will never finish the project.
No one is going to volunteer to help them until
they actually release a COMPLETE version of AROS (IMHO).  It also doesn't help that very few people
even know what they are doing.
Jim Steichen, author of AmigaTalk

[falemagn]

After reading some of the status & documentation on their new website, I believe that the AROS project has strayed far away from their original
intention of writing an equivalent of the Amiga OS 3.1.

Interesting thought... strange we didn't know yet Could you please tell us what led you to that conclusion?

Instead, they're trying to incorporate improvements from OS3.5 & 3.9

Again, would be interesting to know what are you referring to...

make the entire project work on any set of hardware out there.

That's been the AROS' goal since it was born.

At that rate, they will never finish the project.

Oh dear, if we were to listen to some of you guys out there, there would indeed be no AROS anymore, just because our moral would go under the pavement.

Fortunately, we're doom-proof :-D

No one is going to volunteer to help them until
they actually release a COMPLETE version of AROS (IMHO).

Well, then one has to wonder how come there actually are people working on it. You know, it's not like someone forced us to do so :-) Evidently, the truth is, as always, in the middle: certainly a finished product would attract more developers, on the other hand, what would those developer develop, if the product is finished? :-)

The kind of developers that we need are the ones that want to help us finish AROS.

However, it would be interesting to understand what do you mean by "finished". Is linux finished, for instance? Is an OS ever "finished"?

It also doesn't help that very few people even know what they are doing.

That would be quite strange, indeed, as AROS is quite often in the news, and many things (everything) have been explained about it. Unfortunately, we cannot do much about people who just don't listen...

Jim Steichen, author of AmigaTalk

Oh, see? You should perhaps talk less and listen a bit more ;-)

[bloodline]

After reading some of the status & documentation

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Just to back up Fabio here, I'm not sure how you think we have strayed from the original goal...

 Which is to recode a platform independant AmigaOS 3.1 clone, which, when run on Amiga hardware can fully replace AmigaOS 3.1 without the Amiga classic hardware or Amiga Classic Software knowing such a change has occured...

As far as I'm aware nothing has changed. Work has been progressing very well in recent times, and the x86 version is well on the way to version 1.0 (the first stable release).

Currently we are deciding on the feature set for V1.0 (which will essentially be an AmigaOS 3.1 clone in terms of features), with extra features (not avaialble in 3.1)  added to later revisions.

I would like to point out that AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 have never been concidered as examples/benchmarks for AROS. We do not plan to include their functionality as it is rather hakishly put together, More elagant solutions are avaialbe to AROS.

It is very important to remember that while extra features and future enhancement may not be included with the first release (which is intended to clone AmigaOS 3.1), we still have to prepare for them and the ground work has been or is being laid to make the inclusion of the improvments as painless as possible.