Amiga OpenStep/NextStep???

[commie1974]

Hi there!!
Was there ever such a project started for other 68k machines than then NeXT ones?
I searched around the web but found nothing...
Wondering if someone might have jast started an attempt to port the fabulous OpenStep OS to the Amiga, back in the days...
Theoretically, this wouldn't be THAT hard for a developer, since there is 68k code!
I tried recently OpenStep4.2 on an old Sun Sparcstation 5 (different CPU, though) and it rocks :cool
Just dreaming of ever seeing this thingy (if it was ported in some way) on an Amiga, even in a beta, gamma or delta :D:D version hidden in some developer's dusty shelf!!

[superBuster]

would be cool. I have never heard of anything like that

[adolescent]

OpenStep, despite it's name, isn't open source. AFAIK there is no m68k source in GNUStep, the open source implementation of OpenStep.

[mtb]

GNUstep should be portable...

For example take a look here (http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/camera.app) .

There is a binary download for linux 68k, so also for amiga.

[adolescent]

In that case, it's already done. I was thinking that GNUStep was a complete operating system, not an implementation that runs on top of Linux.

[mtb]

I don't think so, but i'm sure it needs an X server.

In the last 4 or so years i have never tried to use a GNUStep like environment, before i used to use wmaker that is the gnustep window manager, a really good one ( i felt only not so keyboard friendly so i switched ), but none of the "openstep" alike programs.

You can try an x86 LIVE version here (http://linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/) .

[commie1974]

Yep, GNUStep is not bad, and I have already seen it on Debian/SPARC, but i was talking about complete port of the OS, no Linux running underneath, just an Amiga being able to run the packages written for NextStep/OpenStep on the NeXT blackboxes...