A-EON Interview about Amiga's future - Distrita

[kolla]

I just want to say that my main build host for Gentoo Linux/m68k was one of my A1200s with Blizzard 1260 clocked at 50MHz and with 192MB RAM. It would run gcc more or less constantly, and that never affected its responsiveness as webserver and certainly not me using vim or doing other tasks. Responsiveness only went downhill when it ran out of physical RAM and started paging much. With Linux one can adjust many parameters to adjust swap priority and still have well responding interaction.

[kolla]

@KimmoK

I used to have an old 486 with a tower of CD burners to provide software and other material to students. The CPU is not much of an issue here, it all boils down to I/O, and having DMA SCSI is a major plus compared the typically CPU hungry IDE.

[kolla]

BeOS exists today as the open source project Haiku, and they are progressing steadily, participate yearly in Google's Summer of Code (which also resulted in rudimentary IPv6 support 4-5 years ago). There is hardly any cause for "Be-littling" when wearing an Amiga hat. Haiku has all the stuff Amiga users moan about constantly, but it is a different user experience.

https://www.haiku-os.org/

[kolla]

I'm not wearing any hat, and I'm not making any statement about the quality of their Os. I'm only observing that their user basis is "next to nothing". Look at the popularity of Linux, compared to other Os installations: That's probably a whopping 1%.

In this you ignore all Android devices, networking gear, HPC, cloud services, virtualization platforms, smart TVs, media centers etc etc and solely look at the dwindling market that is "desktop computers"?

The times where you could write your custom Os for custom hardware and make that a success story are over.

Thus, if you want to waste your time there, I've really no objections, why should I. But I've better plans with my life. (-:

I am happy many people feel differently, so that we actually have some progress in terms of technology and science in general. It's like, what kind of dumbass would make a game about silly birds being used as sling shot ammo, don't they know "tanks" already exists?!