Amiga Research Operating System (www.arosworld.org)

A short video with AROS in action and application running. Amiga Research Operating System.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Amiga
• Research
• Operating
• System
• AROS

[chrtannus]

It has the same old concepts - even the START button is there! I did NOT see any inovation...

[italiansmoothie]

You are comparing a young operating system with others that have been out there for decades!! It's like wiping your behind before pooping. It makes no sense. Aros is not trying to be better or a replacement for Linux, Mac or windos but it's out there for people who enjoy the Amiga way of system operation. It's the same reason why you don't have one kind of car manufacturer but have several others.

[killyoupl]

Is it possible to run it on Windows/

[italiansmoothie]

Yes! U can use WinAros. It uses QEMU

[vstman]

Great tune! Where does it come from?

[comatr0n]

this megablast remix is NICE! i wish i would have the samples to do a own one

[walter0bz]

you dont need memory protection when you can boot so fast.

perhaps this is a nice sweetspot between the ultra cut-down style of iPad OS and a mainstream thing.

[prabhu5986]

good

[kcotham]

Amiga OS and BeOS were way ahead of their time. It goes to show that the most popular does NOT equal the best, e.g., Windows. When I heard (back in the day) that Apple was looking at buying BeOS as their next Mac OS, I voiced the opinion that they should have looked at Amiga instead. Too bad, for both Be and Commodore, they didn't.

[xcomcmdr]

Enforcer/Cyberguard were freeware since the start (1998 for Enforcer). As for testing them, I've not been able to do it (I must set up a new PC to transfer file from it to the Amiga). But I'll test Enforcer on it some day (at least to make the MMU purchase useful).

As for MS-DOS... I prefer a multitask GUI-based OS rather than a single task CLI-based OS. Besides, even on Windows ME a single program could always crash the entire system. If I buy an old computer, an Amiga is a hell lot funnier.

[inclusivedisjunction]

But was the program always free? Probably not. Even if it was, that only solves the problem of having to pay the proverbial monkey. You still haven't told me whether the solutions actually WORK. Can a single program crash bring down the entire system? Is CyberGuard totally transparent to the user? Do all programs made prior to it's release work under it?

If not, then I might as well run MS-DOS. At least hardware to run THAT on is easily affordable.

[xcomcmdr]

But what software ? The software implementing memory protection using the MMU on 68k AmigaOS are (old) free software available on aminet.

[inclusivedisjunction]

From what I have heard (and I'm not saying it's true; I could never afford an Amiga to find out myself), those software solutions are complex and ugly hacks, and STILL don't provide 100% protection. Memory protection is neither a new nor frivolous feature. Having to purchase software to do something that almost every operating system has been able to do, in at least some form, since 1987, is like having to hire a monkey to put gasoline in my car's combustion cylinders with an eye dropper.

[xcomcmdr]

memory protection was available since A1200/A4000 with MMU-equipped Blizzard extension card (a 68030 MMU or with a 68060 CPU, or even a PPC Blizzard card). On the software side, if you have a 68k AmigaOS, you only have to use software like 'CyberGuard' to have memory protection. Visit aminet some time...