Hello,
I hope you are openminded enough and read this post without misunderstanding me.
I believe that currently AROS isn't the best OS but has the chance to become the best.
What do you think it's missing?
My opinion:
It's fast, looks good and is not resource hungry. I feel that computers are going to be more and more tied to batteries, and the AROS qualities could be a great advantage. Since interpreted languages are getting more and more common than natively compiled, the current memory protection drawback may not be important in the future.
What's the best? Honestly I'm currently lost looking for the best, possibly I should find some time and help aros get there some day once I have enough time.
Most times I use linux while working, but I feel like my hardware should be faster for editing text and simple graphics. I used to compile custom kernels using the scheduler by C. Kolivas, but it usually makes the system unstable. I have quit from recompiling the kernel every time a major kernel version is released.
Considering this issue, AROS is natively good enough, but it still feels unfinished, that's why I said that it could become the best.
By "memory protection drawback" I meant the lack of memory protection. As far as I know, they keep it that way to allow M68k compatibility. Despite approving their efforts on maintaining retrocompatibility, I hope it doesn't hinder the progress for other platforms, since the hardware itself is not being updated (historically, Motorola has moved support to PPC over M68k).
Edited by MasterTggtt on 05-09-2013 11:28,
11 years agoI meant that I hope that they don't get excessive on providing too much M68k retrocompatiblity before other stability and usability issues are better. Because I think that these other issues would bring more users to AROS (and also developers).
And yes, I know that the bounty system does prioritize these things first, since the developers are free to accept it.
Talking about Zune being unfinished, I have quit from running wookiechat here since it crashes often, I think it must be Zune's fault and then I didn't report it... (NList/muimaster/etc access error).
