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It’s a toy for developers who are building it. No real target audience, other than maybe some extreme Amiga geeks, who will launch it once every few months.
by justapassenger 6y ago
It’s a toy for developers who are building it. No real target audience, other than maybe some extreme Amiga geeks, who will launch it once every few months.
- squarefoot 6y agoTrue, but it has been ported to other platforms, including ARM, which makes it interesting as graphical OS for embedded systems. I mean control panels showing data, graphs etc. rather than desktop applications. To me it would make sense to experiment with AROS on small boards where a full fledged Linux GUI would require too much beer to be usable, or simply to get the most performance from the available CPU/RAM/storage.
- justapassenger 6y agoIt could be cool toy for cases like that, but you need to do a lot of work yourself to get it to behave like embedded system, build custom ui, etc, aka, toy for developers. It’s very dangerous to be used for real production. It’s AmigaOS at the core, which means that it’s fairly complex (compared to other embedded systems) and at the same time, comes with literally 0 security (shared address space for everyone for a start, before you go anywhere deeper with what’s wrong with security). While it may not be a biggest concern for non internet connected devices, it makes it inherently unstable system (there are embedded systems without memory protection, but they’re much simpler). Don’t get me wrong, I love playing with toys like that (was involved in a broader Amiga community for a long long time), but for modern times, it’s just a toy.