Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 545 from 2015/6/18
From: Funeralopolis
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deka schrieb:
Why not shortcut things: Execute those opensource programs (the ported and not yet ported ones) on Linux and all the mentioned problems are solved. And the resources are saved for the applications, instead of unreasonable emulation.
Why not try to make a Linux system to look and behave like a MorphOS? An Ambient like desktop would be a really good thing to see on Linux.
Maybe integrate UAE into the file handler to be able to start old Amiga games, demos, etc. A file handler with .ico files (others are hidden) would be really-really nice to have feature with all the cool programs, which are available on Linux (and no chance to port them).
Yes, Linux is already around you can already use it.
Also for the task you suggested (developing a window manager + desktop environment) most probably no access to the MorphOS source code is needed. So it seems any group of people interested enough could start such a project.
Would Linux be much better with a 'MorphOS skin'? I doubt it. All programs despite your DE will continue to use their native toolkit (gtk, qt, ...) anyhow, unless you write special MorphOS versions. Maybe you can also port MUI to Linux, but you'll need to include code + patches to make e.g. Firefox or Epiphany (webkit based browser) use MUI and get a MorphOS-like user experience. From the Linux viewpoint you will just get 'yet another window manager + DE' and from the Amiga viewpoint it would yet another fork.
So more or less you are telling users - just use Linux + UAE. Which of course they already can today.
At least for myself there would not be much benefit from a MorphOS-looking Linux over a regular Linux.
Talos II. [Gentoo Linux] | PMac G5 11,2. PMac G4 3,6. PBook G4 5,8. [MorphOS 3.18 / Gentoo Linux] | Vampire V4 SA [ApolloOS / Amiga OS 3.2.2]
