> what I meant was that they may have considered other options.
> Not that they actively poured money into development.

For instance? The netbook form factor is supposed to come from Hyperion. What would that leave for A-Eon? A tablet?

> I hope A-eon doesn't focus too much on Xcore.

That's my hope too. I think XCore is of no real use in the market A-Eon resides in with the X1000 and possible future successors.

> I wish there was something better then OS4.1 to run on A-eon boards
> (or Ubuntu as I can run that on an X86 or ARM).

No OS4 and no OS that can also run on x86 or ARM leaves only MorphOS, right? :-)

> Maybe I've been a little hasty about AROS.

You mean AROS/PPC running hosted on Linux/PPC on an A-Eon PPC board? But then, AROS also runs natively on x86 and thus wouldn't meet your premise of an OS you'd wish to run on any A-Eon PPC board.
Btw, about native AROS/PPC on the X1000:

"AROS is now running on PPC SAMs & Sam Crow has said he would see about getting it going on the A1 & X1000, something I asked about at Amiwest."
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36695&forum=16&start=120#686212