[quote name=x-vision post=15362]@x-vision - That fork is shameful and bastard[/quote]

I would not say that. We will see how it will look like. It is not just another aros fork and has different goals. But there might be components that are also interesting here. For example they want to reimplement the AOS4 workbench 100%. We will see what is possible.

And yes Amigasystem is right. In parts of the community AROS is seen negative. Perhaps they have long ago made bad experiences or how often in this community no experience but strong convictions. Because of that I see more potential outside of our small bubble. Recent developments like the ports to RPi are important there.

As long as they don't use the AROS name for something that isn't AROS! That's misleading and it's incorrect.

ARia is acceptable to me, at least. What does it mean? Maybe "Amiga Re-Imagined Again"! Remember that Amiga 68k went to PPC. But now it seems PPC hardware is expensive, there isn't much future there either. It's a niche platform and people who work on Amiga OS realized that.

AROS has a chance to shine, to show that it's a stable, well-built, multi-platform that is very capable!

It's not like this hasn't happened before with AROS and Amiga. AfA OS was an attempt to merge AROS and Amiga 68k. It's also not unusual in the Linux world to use the Linux kernel because it's stable, had driver support and it's multi-platform. The developers of Mac OS realized that Linux was superior to their options at the moment so they built Darwin and Mac OS X has been going strong.

Using AROS to build a new kernel just proves that AROS is superior to Amiga OS in many ways! Most if not all of the stability and innovation in AROS today comes from ABIv1. We are just the recipients of all the work.

For the most part we will have to see what happens with this project ARia.

I'm interested to see how this all comes together. Amiga OS4 is a commercial product. I own a legal copy of Amiga OS4 FE. I run it in Amiga Forever Virtual Machine.

If it's a case of a special installer that installs the new kernel, the drivers and modified libraries. Then the user inserts an authentic OS4 DVD to copy the rest of the software, then if it increases sales of OS4 then maybe the owners of OS4 will be ok.

If I read the article on amiga-news.de correctly the new kernel is working on certain hardware and some libraries have been customized and the PPC translation layer is in place. The Reaction GUI Toolkit has been completely revised. This last part is very interesting. The Reaction GUI Toolkit is proprietary software that is distributed with the commercially available Amiga OS4. The Reaction GUI Toolkit is fully owned by Hyperion Entertainment.

It would be very audacious for a lone developer to knowingly include proprietary software in his open source project. Rather, I think both Hyperion and Amiga have signed off on this new project, especially if it generates new revenue from sales of Amiga OS4 software. But, I could be completely wrong as usual. ;-)

Otherwise there might be a legal battle, once again.