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lproven•31 minutes ago
lproven•27 minutes ago
I am watching this with some interest -- I wrote about AROS myself last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061609

It's a remarkable little OS, and it does have potential. The Pi is a lovely little computer but a bit underpowered for modern Linux or FreeBSD, let alone Windows.

But as RISC OS on the Pi shows, it's got more than enough power to be a capable GUI desktop computer, and AROS could make it into one of the fastest Amigas ever.

While AROS also runs on x86 of course, including x86-64, that is a crowded market: AROS is a small fish in a big pond.

However, on a 1GB RISC machine, it could really shine as a fast, responsive, capable GUI OS, open to hacking and experimentation, and able to run pretty much any original Amiga software under emulation at much faster than Amiga speeds.

tuna74•19 minutes ago
How much of the speedup is due to a different user space vs Linux (the kernel)?

How much faster is the AROS kernel compared to Linux?