Star AROS Gets a New Name
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th May 2007 18:54 UTC
Amiga & AROS The facelift the AROS project had planned is now complete. Most importantly, due to the recent legal troubles concerning Amiga, the project has changed its name from "Amiga Research Operating System" into "AROS Research Operating System". They have also redone their website. There is also development news; the USB UHCI and OHCI support has been completed, and write support for the FAT filesystem has been added, among other things.
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AROS
by Almafeta (3.36) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:24 UTC
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I still don't plan on using AROS, due to technical faults in the system that haven't been addressed yet. (Taking out the name Amiga from the name of AROS is a step towards accuracy.)

But as long as Eric Schwartz is still creating their mascot, then all is right in the world.

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RE: AROS
by Kroc (3.08) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:28 UTC in reply to "AROS"
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Would it not help to point out those 'technical faults' so that even if you're not going to file bugs, other astute readers may?

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RE[2]: AROS
by helf (3.12) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:32 UTC in reply to "RE: AROS"
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It's not linux ;)

ok, mod me down.

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RE[3]: AROS
by gdanko (1.44) on Fri 18th May 2007 02:02 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: AROS"
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It's not linux ;)

ok, mod me down.

That could be considered a good thing.

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RE[2]: AROS
by Mike Pavone (1.28) on Thu 17th May 2007 21:50 UTC in reply to "RE: AROS"
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Would it not help to point out those 'technical faults' so that even if you're not going to file bugs, other astute readers may?

I'm going to take a guess that the lack of memory protection is one of them. Maybe it's the crappy (by modern standards) API (BOOPSI is pretty ugly after all). I don't know if I'd consider those "bugs" just design problems.

As an aside, I really hate recursive acronyms.

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AROS on EFIKA/Open Client
by Rasmus (2.04) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:41 UTC
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Maybe...
by fretinator (4.24) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:41 UTC
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...they should have changed it to Eclectic Research Operating System. ;}

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RE: Maybe...
by Almafeta (3.36) on Thu 17th May 2007 19:54 UTC in reply to "Maybe..."
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I just may have to steal that.

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RE[2]: Maybe...
by fretinator (4.24) on Thu 17th May 2007 20:18 UTC in reply to "RE: Maybe..."
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Sorry, it's patented! ;}

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RE[3]: Maybe...
by JonathanBThompson (4.4) on Thu 17th May 2007 22:36 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Maybe..."
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Siily you, you can't PATENT a name:

BUT you can TRADEMARK a name ;)

(Assuming a few minor details)

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From the Department of Redundancy Department ...
by gehersh (2.6) on Thu 17th May 2007 22:42 UTC
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AROS Research Operating System. :-)

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The next step...
by SamuraiCrow (2.44) on Fri 18th May 2007 01:19 UTC
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Convincing the admins here on OSNews that AROS really is NOT Amiga news and should have its own cat-mascot icon instead of the boing-ball.

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Huh?
by Soulbender (3.6) on Fri 18th May 2007 03:26 UTC
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So they renamed it "Amiga Research Operating System Research Operating System"?

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RE: Huh?
by Cymro (2.52) on Fri 18th May 2007 09:43 UTC in reply to "Huh?"
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Hmm, not quite.

I don't see the problem anyway - there's no point in making up something beginning with 'A' when everyone knows it as AROS already. It's not like GNU people are bothered by it.

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RE: Huh?
by viton (2.04) on Fri 18th May 2007 10:44 UTC in reply to "Huh?"
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recursion:
... see recursion
;)

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Aaron's Research Operating System
by viton (2.04) on Fri 18th May 2007 10:50 UTC
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I think Aaron Digulla deserves to be in the name of his own OS ;)
Like Linu(s|x)

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RE: Aaron's Research Operating System
by nicholas (1.48) on Fri 18th May 2007 11:00 UTC in reply to "Aaron's Research Operating System"
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I think Aaron Digulla deserves to be in the name of his own OS ;) Like Linu(s|x)


AaROS? ;-)

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another recursive comment
by hawkfb (1.43) on Fri 18th May 2007 12:53 UTC
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OMG, so the acronym will be AROSROS? xP

I don't know if AROS will be ever "mature", but it's fun to play with ;)

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Long needed name change, but...
by cheeseballoon (1) on Sat 19th May 2007 03:34 UTC
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I've used this OS system on my PC computer, but I hate having to boot straight from the CD disk.
That reminds me, tonight I have to look up my PIN number and head down to the nearest ATM machine.

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In case you're new to recursive acronyms
by fretinator (4.24) on Mon 21st May 2007 19:41 UTC
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Other recursive acronyms:

Gnu - Gnu's not Unix
Pine - Pine is not Elm
Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator
PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor


That should get you started,
Tom (Tom's Original Mentations)

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