Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
Quote:
minator wrote:
As the MorphOS Dev. Team gets closer to completing the port to x64 architecture, I'll wonder if it would be relatively easy for them to create a hosted on Linux version of the existing PPC version of MorphOS, like AEROS is for AROS. Giving away a Linux hosted version of MorphOS3.9 would be a great way to generate interest in the new x64 version of MorphOS, just weeks before it was ready to be released. That of course would depend on how difficult it is to duplicate what the AROS developers have done to make AEROS. I assume that AEROS uses the ARM version of AROS, but that might not be correct, if AROS is running in a VM on top of Linux. I should find out more about how AEROS works, before writing any more about this idea.
Nice idea, would be most welcome, but wouldnt some G4 QUEMU book with Pegasos firmware be enough?
However, they have mixed "two bags" here
a) AROS Vision - which is Linux or Windows hosted AROS, slower but usable
b) AEROS, which is Debian and AROS Crossover, a native crossbreed OS.
I have used AEROS, its essentially spartan looking fast Linux that has built in AROS support and apps
as well as JanusUAE. Its great as Linux and as AROS, because it uses Linux drivers to surpass
AROS driver limitations.
AEROS exists for ARM and x86 and there are plans for PPC version limited by PPC Debian and PPC AROS.
So AEROS way of MorphOS would be crossbreeding with Linux kernel and drivers, while maintaining e.g.
Ambient loook and feel.
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