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Posts: 2794 from 2006/3/21
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KennyR wrote:
From experience, especially inside the Amiga community, the more people deny they need to use Unix the more they make their OS resemble Unix.
Linux was a huge draw for Amiga developers in the late 90s. A lot of them tried to work backwards and port the things they liked from Linux into AmigaOS, but quickly found that it was a lot easier simply to move the stuff they liked from AmigaOS into Linux.
Don't you think that the reason Linux was a "huge draw for Amiga developers in the late 90's", was more because it was free/open source, and because of the extreme dislike of both Microsoft/Windows and Apple/MacOS, by most Amiga users/programmers, instead of a preference of the way Linux works, how it is structured, or what software was available with a Linux port of it? The reason Amiga developers tried to change Linux to be more like AmigaOS, is positive evidence that the Amiga users and programmers prefer how AmigaOS works and is structured, instead of how Linux and Unix, work and are structured.
If all Amiga users and programmers thought the way you seem to think, we would not be here and the AmigaOS/AROS/MorphOS users and programmers would have all switched to Unix/Linux long ago, instead of sustaining what remains of our community, and the constant creation of new hardware and software, as well as continuing work to improve the 3 OS derivatives of the original 68k Classic AmigaOS. Sure, some former Amiga users and programmers did leave our community, and switched to using and developing for Linux, Unix, Windows, or MacOSX, but not the few thousands that still remain. I also see little to zero resemblance between our current AmigaOS4.x, AROS, or MorphOS, when compared to any Unix, or Linux distributions.
[ Edited by amigadave 14.08.2016 - 14:18 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
