Regarding Amigakit and your order you should ask on amiga.org

AmigaKit is famous for that.

I bought a 4x IDE for my Amiga 1200 a few years ago. A few weeks went by after I paid but I got no emails or confirmation of my purchase. I waited another week then it arrived. I should have learned my lesson ordering from them but I did it again.

About a year ago I ordered a "pre assembled" Pi Storm 32 Lite from AmigaKit. Same thing. A few weeks passed with no messages, no communication whatsoever! I got really impatient. So I sent a nasty email about customer service, lack there of actually. I waited but still nothing.

A few days later I sent another email. The answered that one, acting so upset that I would bother them. They were so busy!
A day later I got a message that my product had shipped. I received it a week later.

Having good products means nothing if customer service is no good!!

I’ll throw in my two cents. A few months ago, I became so interested in Amibench that I bought an A600GS computer from AmigaKit (not Amikit—that’s something completely different). They confirmed the purchase and took the money, but then all communication ceased. I sent an email once a month asking about the status of my order, only to be met with dead silence. That’s all I have to say about the "premium" Amibench product.

Hold my beer.

I think we're mixing up a couple of things here. A system can be free without its development being unpaid, and a paid product doesn't automatically have a well-funded development team behind it.

I agree that none of this happens overnight. But I'm not convinced that AmigaOS or AmiBench can reach that maturity in the short term, even if they were commercial products. Paid development can certainly help; the real question is how much sustained development, testing, and maintenance those projects can actually fund.

The bigger challenge I see right now is fragmentation and where we put our limited effort. We need to make AROS much easier for developers coming from other systems to get into. The goal should be familiar APIs, an accessible SDK, and a toolchain that a new developer can set up and start using in 30 minutes.

This isn't just about bringing more applications over. Some of those developers will inevitably fix missing functionality, improve libraries and tools, and leave behind a stronger foundation for everyone who comes after them. That's the kind of momentum I'd like to see. Something closer to Linux in its early days, where making the system useful to more developers also brought in more people capable of improving the system itself.

There's also the cost of getting started. A developer who is merely curious is much more likely to experiment if they can use hardware they already own (yours truly). If trying a platform requires buying a dedicated machine or a particular commercial package, some potential contributors will simply never take that first step. Making AROS easy to build and run on an existing computer could be a real advantage here.

And AI can help accelerate this process, but it doesn't make the groundwork unnecessary. If anything, it makes clear interfaces and shared building blocks even more important, so that each contribution strengthens the platform instead of becoming yet another isolated workaround.

amigaos4 kernel is property of aeon.
Aeon amikit is developing systemv54 (https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2021-07-00005-EN.html) and systemv46 https://wiki.amiga.org/index.php/AmiBench

the interesting thing is:
amikit is using aros to complete their system to add software to add missing software to their kernel and datatypes

Hyperion Amigaos4 is using aros kernel to complete their system

I my opinion for user is difficult to understand differences but for aros it is a resource to improve the system if the changes are brought to the main source

I think it's impossible for Aros to reach a good maturity in the short term with contributors offering their service for free, while Amigaos and Amibench can be "premium" versions of Aros with paid contributors.

I think it could be a win-win for all projects.

A user could pay for the Amigaos or Amibench license to have a quality premium system.

The development plan needs to be decided in terms of APIs and features, and it could be a consortium of three or four:
- Amikit
- Hyperion
- Amiga (Cloanto)
- Morphos

I think there is enough material to write an article about the future of AmigaOS and derived systems.

Wow, Impressive
Does that mean that Dickenson has wasted some money

AROS has more influence than I think most of the Amiga Community knows

Haha, that's a nice one

Now i realized when i was just arrived and waiting for Deremon to arrive at the event, Andrea Palmatè came to my table and sayd "Now we are almost brothers", but at the moment i didn't understand and he didn't gave to me any other explanations. What a pity i did not take a video of his intervent with Walkero that was already present at Pianeta Amiga.

During Pianeta Amiga show last weekend, AmigaLabs team revealed an AmigaOS 4 kernel replacement which is based on AROS kernel and supports multiple core.

You can read more in this report: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/09/powerboard-tyche-unveiled-at-pianeta-amiga/

Middle of page, search for "AmigaLabs"