In my outsider's opinion, the Amiga community should have implemented this much sooner and moved on from AmigaOS to the combination of the Linux kernel and the AmigaOS userland ported on top of it, instead of patching a kernel that wasn't designed for MMUs. This and cheaper x86-based hardware could have kept the Amiga relevant as a (relatively) mainstream platform instead of a diehard retrocomputing island. I don't know if this was being discussed back in the day, hindsight is 20/20 of course.
Thing is that isn't a single unified Amiga community with a clear goal. Roughly speaking you have people who (like this project) want to keep the "OS/UI experience" and move that forward to newer architectures and build new stuff for that (PPC was the main target for a long time), and what you call diehard retrocomputing people who are more closely tied to the hardware used back in the day - M68K and custom chipset (or at least the "period correct" HW extensions made possible by original Commodore made machines).
I'm probably mostly in the latter camp, but still appreciate efforts like this. It's not a rational thing, but more about "reliving the past" but with more skills/money/available software. Like classic cars or whatever, where you know you could have a better overall experience with a newer car, but you want to tinker on the old one (where maybe you now got the upgrade model you yearned for back in the day).
Cool that one can make native Linux versions using Amiga APIs. It's a bit like GNUStep I guess, only more complete, owing to that the original Commodore APIs were more or less frozen in time.
I grew up programming 68k assembly on the Amiga. I loved the Amiga. It was ahead of its time in so many ways. I’m amazed that folks are still maintaining things like this.
Alas. It appears borked on debian (axrt depends on an old version of libjpeg.) I'll loop back around in a year and see if it's been changed to depend on modern dependencies.
There doesn't seem to be much information on this, or how it's different from AROS.
It looks to be based on AROS - the open source re-implimentation of Amiga OS, which apparently can run either on bare metal or hosted on different OSs.
