This isn’t really being done in the spirit of open source development, and unfortunately that approach seems to be prevalent across the AmigaOS community: closed development, screenshots instead of source, and releases promised for some future milestone rather than put out early for people to try. AROS is supposed to be the exception to that, so it’s disappointing to see the same attitude turning up here. Open source means working in the open: the repo goes up with the first commit, the first rough build goes out, and people can clone it, run it, report bugs and send patches. Here, a distro maintainer asked for a download and got “nothing shared”. A developer asked if the bar’s source and binary would go on AROS Archives or GitHub and got “when 1.1 stable is finished”. Then we’re asked what we’d like in the release ISO of something none of us can inspect or run. That’s not collaboration, it’s announcements. It’s also clearly more than a distribution now. In the space of a week it’s gone from a customised AROS build to a native file manager, an Office-compatible word processor and spreadsheet, a llama.cpp port, Blender ported overnight, and then Mesa 26, Vulkan, xHCI, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi drivers. Most of those already exist in ABIv1, where they were developed, as retrofaza and Argo pointed out. If this work were happening in the open, in the same repos and channels as everyone else, that would have been obvious on day one instead of having to be explained after the fact. Working in the open isn’t just letting others see your code, it’s how you find out what already exists. And honestly, most of what’s been shown looks like hastily chucked together AI generations, and not particularly good ones. The posts read that way too. There’s nothing wrong with using AI tools, but there’s a big difference between a rendered screenshot and software that ships, and so far we’ve only seen the former.