No surprise - those that speak with Amiga Inc can ask if any of this is true:

Take one Ubuntu, mix in a little XGL and add all your Compiz...

Add OS4 under emulation, or run/dual-boot a la Amithlon.

Sprinkle Amiga-Anywhere on top and you have an Amiga Enabled OS4 compatible "better-than-OSX" OS... Or Bills monster....

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1) Kernel work has not been started/done by Amiga Inc...
2) Mutiple CPU support
3) 64-bit support
4) "a scalable, embeddable, multi-threaded, memory protected operating system or digital environment that would run from a cell phone to a server"
5) Java available
6) Modern web browser available
7) Not based on OS3/4 code...
8) Amiga-Anywhere is available

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@Benji
That's obviously a malicious rumour (it makes too much sense).

@Benji

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or run/dual-boot a la Amithlon.

I hope the link you chose for that part does not indicate any confusion about Harald's abilities to provide Amiga with anything even remotely Amithlon-related....

@umisef

Not at all, simply to illustrate the method in which Amithlon hosts the Amiga OS - if you think there is a better link (and I expect there is) then let me know.

@Benji

Bundle E-UAE with some licenced ROMs and OS3.9, and there's Classic support too.

Hold on....This would make far too much sense!

EDIT:

Use the PPC version of Ubuntu and there's your AmigaOne and Classic/PPC support too! (And Pegasos/Efika too!)

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@Benji

I don't think that is what Amiga will do, but it would make sense. They could ship a modern desktop using the Amiga name to get some media attention and add some content layer via Amiga anywhere.

Anyway if OS5 will be closer to Linux than OS4 in look and feel I will not be a costumer.

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@Benji
> Not based on OS3/4 code

This late edit contradicts the "have an Amiga enabled OS4 compatible system" bit and the whole point is lost (virtualization is the emergency exit from the PPC dead-end).

... not.

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@Benji

That interview on Temple of Technology reads like an SNL skit.

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@Benji

When AmigaOS 5.0 was mentioned in September 2006 (*before* the McEwen interview!), Rogue responded with this.

Discuss...

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Amiga OS5 is...

Barely a gleam in AInc's eye at this point. I suspect we'll see AmigaOS 5 debut around the same time that we see flying cars.

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@Benji

I hope that's a joke
Like someone else said, I don't need another Linux distribution with some half-working/half-not-working emulator as my next OS

@Benji
1. a marketing strategy to gain more investment, and try to keep the consumer base hanging on a bit longer?
2. Yet another attempt to foster interest in Amiga Anywhere?
3. a bad joke?

Oh wait, we're not playing Mad Libs?

Sorry, McEwen's 'better than OS X' really puts things in context here...believe it when I see it/something/anything.

PS - re-packaging a Linux distro and adding AA on it is near zero value added, I couldn't imagine many paying good $ for that.

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PS - re-packaging a Linux distro and adding AA on it is near zero value added, I couldn't imagine many paying good $ for that.

So give it away. Then you have a captive audience wanting AA titles to play at home and on their mobile phone, or creating "content" for AA...

Believe me - people do buy this stuff. People will buy anything for mobile phones...

@Benji
Giving it away would be good, yet seems counter to everything AInc has ever done. Selling 'Amiga workstations' (Linux overpriced PCs), selling dev kits(!!!) for AA, unreasonable licensing scheme fees, etc. Also, as I doubt _highly_ AIncs ability to keep a distro or ISO up to date, they'd do better making an 'AA user and dev package, with E-UAE/Amiga 'enablement'', which would come out looking something like Cloanto's product, with AA added to it. That's got to conflict with receiving income from Cloanto, so that basically leaves us with a _free_ AA dev kit.

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@Benji

Beating OSX with an Amiga-like OS isn't hard becuase OSX has to cache every file type to implement full memory protection. AmigaOS 4 doesn't implement full memory protection but stores libraries in shared memory any additional uses of each library just allocates a new interface and reuses the memory of the library's code.

An x86 version running hosted AROS on Linux or Minix would be enough to satisfy the bill. They'd just have to recompile the AmigaOS 4 code for AROS. The AROS Public License doesn't require that derived works be open-source so it is possible that it is the version used.

I think it would be better to finish and fully support one OS before jumping to a new OS. OS4.0 is done and there should be work done to make it work on a wide range of hardware. All this messing around with OS5.0 is a waist of time and will further kill the Amiga OS.

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I've never bought Bill's statement that OS 5 is being worked on. The timing was so unnecessary, that I can't view it as any more than a bizarre dig at Hyperion.

I reckon if Amiga Inc get the OS 4 code, they'll release a new OS based on OS 4, and we'll be expected to pretend he never said anything (which many will do..)

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but with no reason to believe them, I wouldn't be apologising for it.

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@Samurai_Crow

It demands acknowldege, which don't see like a thing Amiga would do... Amiga next gen based on AROS?? Pick AROS work and close it?

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@wegster

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Oh wait, we're not playing Mad Libs?

Dang it! And I wanted to answer "Amiga OS5 is...".....done.
Now all you have to do is decipher whether "done" means "completed" or "stick a fork in it, it's done".

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