The Amiga bears absolutely no "clone" or other relationship to the Mac. They are so completely different that any comparison between them fails.

The impression that the Amiga has "died" was fostered by the bankruptcy of the parent company in 1994 or 1995. Since then, several companies have owned the Amiga IP. Now, Amiga is a consortium of three companies: Amiga Inc., Hyperion Entertainment, and Eyetech.

Amiga runs a completely proprietary OS that has been in use since 1986. Nine OS versions have appeared in that time, with the tenth (OS 4) due out soon. More information appears on these sites, if you're interested:

www.amiga.com
http://amiga.org
www.amigaworld.net
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminet. This is a software archive site.

The new boards are running PPC processors with architectures that bear no relationship at all to Macs except for the presence of the PPC processor. More info on the boards (generically) can be gained from www.mai.com. We, obviously, think that they run better than anything else.

Thanks to the others in this topic who have posted their information as well. I will attempt to run these PPC linux versions, even though they are still alpha software, and report the results I have to the forum.

Thanks for writing back and for your interest, one and all.