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There is a team working on Amizilla which is the AmigaOS version of Mozilla web browser. But it was last updated in 2006.

The other project is AMozillaX which was announced but no code or web browser was released and it seems to have vanished off the Internet.

The site amiga.org did an interview with Bill McEven a few weeks ago http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?stor yid=6955 Hyperion, who are working on AmigaOS 4 did a statement http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2006-09-00085- EN.html Bill McEven responded later http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?stor yid=6970 The Amiga community - yes, ther is still a community - is pretty sick of Bill.

The G3/G4, Power4 etc. belong to the PowerPC (PPC) family of CPUs. Of course, we all know this.

However, few participating in the discussion seem to acknowledge, that there is more systems running PPC than Apple's Macs.

PPC is important in the embedded market. It has a high performance, stays relatively cool There are 'computers on a card' (a PCI card with a G3/G4 on it plus memory). They communicate over TCP/IP (or proprietary protocols) over the PCI bus with the host system. Nice if you want to have a mini cluster, a physical firewall, or whatever...

• CPCI-680 Sentinel PCI G4 card
• The CPCI 6750
• CompactPCI SBC: CPCI 3750
• Then there is the Micro Server-S from Mai Logic Mai Logic also offers evaluation boards for PowerPC but at prices, that make them interesting only for developers/companies.
• This one has been announced (German text)a year ago or so but not yet been sold. It is based on the Pegasos below.
• A search on Google for embedded PPCresults in approx. 27.000 hits one being this

Then we have several (Micro)ATX mobos, some even for dual G4 (SMP). They get used mostly in the industry, however, this year will see two new home/office-desktop G3/G4 systems that have nothing in common with Apple. See here:

• AmigaONE
• and
• Pegasos G3/G4 MicroATX mobo (SMP option)
• Another project, that at least is in planning is here (RioRed, SMP option)
• Then there is (was?) the OpenPPC project.

So it is obvious that RedHat, being focussed more on industry/server markets than on hte Desktop (that is their current goal as far as I am informed) has some interest in supporting PPC development. Altivec is a very good instruction set and having optimizations for it will be a great benefit. Altivec is not only for MultiMedia, btw. !

Theoretically, all these systems could run LinuxPPC !

Personally I am happy to see some major resource supporting the PowerPC since I would prefer a PPC machine far more than the archaical, outlived, patched & hacked i86 platform (can you use all your PCI slots without clashes...? I can't and my MoBo is from April last year...) Also the PPCs keep quite cool, meaning one could live without an active fan, unlike the Athlon hair-driers...;-)

For the enhusiasts: There are at least two other desktop (!) OS in the works, which are PPC native and come with SMP support: MorphOS (in the works since three years or more) and AmigaOS4.x

>Yeah, so where do I buy a PPC motherboard and CPU?

Here:

• Dual G3/G4 MicroATX Motherboard
• G3/G4 PPC Card for PCI
• another one

Some stuff in the works is here:

• geekish G3/G4 MoBo
• An IBM initiative (?)
• .

And some (German) announcement of a PPC System on a PCI card,aka MicroServer, would make a nice hardwared personal Firewall ;-))

• DCE MicroServer

HERE

Whilst the developer machine will host Elate/Intent using the red hat Linux kernel on the developer box, the OS itself will be based around A kernel developed by Tao.
For more links go to Czech Amiga news or Amiga Aktuell or Amiga News
The new kernel is itself is contained in 25 KB, the complete OS with GUI and JAVA needs 3 MB RAM. Currently the Amiga kernel runs on x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM processors.

Other current Amiga rumours doing the rounds:
1)AMIGA is expected to become the general interface for Corel-Linux-applications. If anything its got to be more user friendly than using X.
2)Newtek are to release the source code of the Video Toaster and Flyer for free
3)Sony and JVC are also going to be Amiga partners