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I am downloading it now, but it is really slow.

It appears to be an ISO file. I guess I can run it in a virtual machine to test it out?

I wonder if it is like the old CommodoreOS that used emulators and ROMs and disk images to run the old Commodore stuff but this one with Amiga only. CommodoreOS was a GNU/Linux distribution and went out of business when the owner who was doing it had died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmiKit

According to Wikipedia it is an emulator and needs ROMs and Disk images for classic Amiga emulation.

From the Website:

"For AmiKit to work, you do need Amiga ROM and Operating System AmiKit includes more than 350 of the finest Amiga programs.

We've done all the hard work for you so that your high-end Amiga experience can begin right away.

With AmiKit you can surf web, read emails and documents, listen to or create your own music, burn CD/DVDs, edit images, play games and much more - all in good old Amiga way."

This is pretty cool. People wanting a nodern Amiga experience are still best trying MorphOS. It's beautiful and runs snappy on old Macs. Cost money if you want to keep it or run for 30+ min without reboots.

Personally, I hate monocultures and oligopolies. I'd like go see a good Amiga make a comeback combined with superior tech as a differentiator. Maybe language, security, reliability, GUI... something to push things forward with Amiga part just making it interesting.