On 26 February 2013 00:50, Zane H. Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
It looks like some sort of AROS distro might be an option as well.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, the AROS team are working on an ARM version, but AFAIK, at the
moment, it can only run loaded as an application running under ARM
Linux with X.11 or possibly under QEMU. It cannot yet actually boot on
ARM hardware.
Given that the Rpi struggles a bit with graphical Linux anyway, it's
not really an alternative at the moment.
But if or when they ever do produce a native-booting version, that
will indeed be an option. AROS is small, slim and fast compared to
modern x86 OSs - although it's relatively feature-poor, and like the
AmigaOS 3 that it seeks to replicate, it has no VM, no memory
protection, no user security or anything. It does have a TCP/IP stack
and Web clients, though.]
At the moment, TTBOMK, there are 4 OSs that run on Rpi:
* Linux, obviously, as used on 99% of Pis
* RISC OS - a feature-complete port, but so far lacking graphics
acceleration etc.
There is also Plan9, but I haven't tested that yet.