In the area of tablets and smartphones that may someday use a flavor or AROS hosted on a Linux base here's a concept:

Long shadow, flat icons for AROS tablets.

It can be an IFF Icon with as few as 8 colors. Or it could be a full color 32bit PNG Icon.

@deadwood

yes that is how I see it too

Aros became pure "research" but not really "replacement"

Users do not care about advanced USB support as long the whole system is not stable and there are bugs that make normal use impossible. The system must run stable and (as far as possible) bug free, it must be easy to install and hardware must be supported. As long this is not the case most users will drop it immediately

My idea (being no OS developer of course) concentrate on hosted versions regarding X86/X64 (Windows, Mac, Linux) with full support of the underlying OS (sound, USB, 3D, Network) and on V4 (68k) and RPi (ARM) native (because hardware is relative static)

I have to say I also agree with the fact that AROS has one foot in the past, one foot in the present with an eye towards the future! Yes, it has its roots in the Amiga operating system. But it is also trying to be a more modern operating system by taking on modern features. And it has to be able to continue to grow.

But none of that really matters if each version isn't backwards compatible and stable enough to use. If you implement something new and break something else, then fix it immediately! It doesn't make sense to work on a version that is knowingly broken in certain areas. It may have been "research" at the beginning but now it's "implementation".

That's what's happening now, trying to fix what's broken to provide a stable foundation to build upon. This even more important when making the jump from 32bit to 64bit because much of what worked on 32bit doesn't work on 64bit. So it has to be fixed. But if it never really worked before, it may need to be completely reworked. That's a lot of extra work.

I agree also that there are certain areas where AROS can grow and become much better. Hosted is a very promising way to go, especially Hosted on Linux. Perhaps over time AROS will become more integrated with Linux to the point where Linux supports the hardware and AROS becomes the desktop. So when you start up your system, kinda like Mac OS X, you don't really see Linux. You just see AROS loading. Then it opens to Wanderer. But Linux is still there and you can still run Linux Apps and use Linux tools. Hosted is the way forward with PC hardware. But there should be support for AROS Native.

As far as hardware, AROS 68k is growing and improving because there is an increased demand for it to support modern accelerators. ARM support is also very promising and has the potential to reach a much larger group of users when it all works.

AROS had modest beginnings, but now it needs a way forward and skilled programmers who are devoted to its success.

Lol .. yes this was what i tried to tell you

Edit:
Just to add sie ring to the painting „the situation“

The problems of funding or market building can be taken out of the consideration.

We just need to bring the horsepower on the street and we need to define the destination where we (devs) want to go ..

I am more the consumer / crypto guy lately.

Don’t expect broadway being updated.
Paolo should be supported being the one maintaining the one and only distro (next to those having fun to create an own one).

I am Amiga fan .. you all too i believe..
the question is what are we aiming for ?
Convincing others about AROS as operating system is mega impossible ..
Bam .

Using it and delivering it as a solution for „usecases“ is absolutely possible.

I proved it. But it’s not about the spirit of the os as users don’t care .. they care about UI and UX if at all ..

So the Situation is more a question about who does what and where is everyone heading to ? Destination / goal ?

I need to talk to power2people about crypto acceptance .. the idea of passive income Bla bla : ) it works

Next thing with completely wrong audience is the Bluephone .. just a China  oem phone with Aeros + android .. ~ not Amiga focused but it is aros hosted „powered“



So users are not equal to userbase : )
But to recap:
All the transcendence projects lead to a shipload of work / payment possibilities.
My idea last year was to have aros being a piece of the construct to get funding..

So market ? Check and marked as solved
Funding? Checked and marked as solved

Now we need a foundation to move money form a to b ..
we experimented with https://governance.rocks to create a voting but also funding platform..

I should have solved it I needed mako