Comments on: Why Linux is the new Amiga http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Zachary Fonsecn http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-2/#comment-372614 Zachary Fonsecn Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:49:48 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-372614 Devastated. I didnrrrt miss a show, irrespective of where I was, for my entire childhood. Which was where we SHONE. Almost every other dance show since was just trying to keep up. Devastated. I didnrrrt miss a show, irrespective of where I was, for my entire childhood. Which was where we SHONE. Almost every other dance show since was just trying to keep up.

]]> By: Deka http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-289191 Deka Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:23:31 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-289191 I used to have an Amiga 1200 (with 2.5 MB ram) and I remember, as I have edited and printed a friend's master's thesis without any problem. I think, in it's time it was a great computer with great os. To be fair, it is much more easier to write an os for a fixed hardware, than to support all the processors, cards, chipsets, as today's OSs have to do. For Amigas, the time have changed! The every day computer usage needs much more kind of applications. Furtunately, the GNU word is comming with the lots of great open source apps, and many of them can be compiled to AROS too, but I think without the tons of applications, any OS can't be successfull. There are some areas for me, what is completly missing (as far, as I know): Midi editor + a JACK like virtual routing system for midi and audio data, Web browser + FLASH + HTML5, A much more simpler, keyboard driven GUI. Today, I use Linux. I like it, because there are the lot of possibilities to form to my taste, easy to install apps, easy to maintain. I don't like KDE, GNOME, because they are huge, needs the lots of resources. I think, I haven't bought a fast computer to feed all the resources with a slow GUI. I prefer the small, well written applications, GUIs. As I see the direction where Aros goes, it will not meet my expectations in the near future, but who knows... I'll hold an eye on the development... I used to have an Amiga 1200 (with 2.5 MB ram) and I remember, as I have edited and printed a friend’s master’s thesis without any problem. I think, in it’s time it was a great computer with great os.

To be fair, it is much more easier to write an os for a fixed hardware, than to support all the processors, cards, chipsets, as today’s OSs have to do.

For Amigas, the time have changed! The every day computer usage needs much more kind of applications. Furtunately, the GNU word is comming with the lots of great open source apps, and many of them can be compiled to AROS too, but I think without the tons of applications, any OS can’t be successfull. There are some areas for me, what is completly missing (as far, as I know): Midi editor + a JACK like virtual routing system for midi and audio data, Web browser + FLASH + HTML5, A much more simpler, keyboard driven GUI.

Today, I use Linux. I like it, because there are the lot of possibilities to form to my taste, easy to install apps, easy to maintain.

I don’t like KDE, GNOME, because they are huge, needs the lots of resources. I think, I haven’t bought a fast computer to feed all the resources with a slow GUI. I prefer the small, well written applications, GUIs.

As I see the direction where Aros goes, it will not meet my expectations in the near future, but who knows… I’ll hold an eye on the development…

]]> By: Wraith2021 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-289164 Wraith2021 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:25:24 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-289164 How ironic that this article says the amiga will never be back, and linux is the new amiga. But here we are in 2011 and Commodore are back with a new range of Amiga computers which will not only be elite in specs, but will run Workbench 5, which will be Linux tailored for the masses and will be reminiscent of the original Workbench, while utilising all the features of a modern powerful OS. How ironic that this article says the amiga will never be back, and linux is the new amiga. But here we are in 2011 and Commodore are back with a new range of Amiga computers which will not only be elite in specs, but will run Workbench 5, which will be Linux tailored for the masses and will be reminiscent of the original Workbench, while utilising all the features of a modern powerful OS.

]]> By: james http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-284183 james Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:26:03 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-284183 Check out commodore usa, this spring they will be selling the new updated version of the commodore 64 plus they will be selling a new line of amiga computers running workbench which will be linux based Check out commodore usa, this spring they will be selling the new updated version of the commodore 64 plus they will be selling a new line of amiga computers running workbench which will be linux based

]]> By: be1984 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-260477 be1984 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:44:37 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-260477 i think linux are NOT a new amiga because linux are too different from amigaos , i think Aros are new amiga !! i think linux are NOT a new amiga because linux are too different from amigaos , i think Aros are new amiga !!

]]> By: silhouette http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-246218 silhouette Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:12:34 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-246218 Well A-EON technologies is going to make the Amiga X1000, supposedly as a celebration of the Amiga's 25th anniversary. Well A-EON technologies is going to make the Amiga X1000, supposedly as a celebration of the Amiga’s 25th anniversary.

]]> By: the all knowing http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-240332 the all knowing Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:47:57 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-240332 The Amiga was a great machine far ahead of it's time and the people who put it down should actually feel sad that we are stuck with systems like Windows and Linux. Some people obviously don't know what they are talking about. The Amiga was a great machine far ahead of it’s time and the people who put it down should actually feel sad that we are stuck with systems like Windows and Linux. Some people obviously don’t know what they are talking about.

]]> By: chr http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-175467 chr Fri, 01 May 2009 17:30:47 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-175467 Writing this on an Sam440 with Amiga OS 4.1. So we are still here ;) Writing this on an Sam440 with Amiga OS 4.1. So we are still here ;)

]]> By: ari-free http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-120652 ari-free Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:23:19 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-120652 I knew amiga was going to die. When? The day I saw, in Byte magazine, (Dec 1990) a picture of an amiga 3000 running UNIX I knew amiga was going to die. When? The day I saw, in Byte magazine, (Dec 1990) a picture of an amiga 3000 running UNIX

]]> By: Yonah http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/comment-page-1/#comment-105846 Yonah Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:55:44 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/03/17/why-linux-is-the-new-amiga/#comment-105846 No way. The greatest thing about the Amiga, was the very idea behind the machine. It was the result of using NEW ideas. Far from Linux, which recycled an old operating system and concepts. The Amiga was a giant leap forward in both hardware and software design, and it's user base mostly used this advantage for creative pursuits, an area I find Linux users to be sorely lacking in. Some Amiga fans may have indeed been smug and arrogant, but they were a lot better educated and informed than today Linux fans, who continually lie, deceive, and badger others. The Amiga is dead, and while it's a part of my past I look back on fondly, it's distasteful you would soil it's name by comparing ANY part of it to Linux. No way. The greatest thing about the Amiga, was the very idea behind the machine. It was the result of using NEW ideas. Far from Linux, which recycled an old operating system and concepts. The Amiga was a giant leap forward in both hardware and software design, and it’s user base mostly used this advantage for creative pursuits, an area I find Linux users to be sorely lacking in.

Some Amiga fans may have indeed been smug and arrogant, but they were a lot better educated and informed than today Linux fans, who continually lie, deceive, and badger others. The Amiga is dead, and while it’s a part of my past I look back on fondly, it’s distasteful you would soil it’s name by comparing ANY part of it to Linux.

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