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[slaapliedje]

Okay, to clarify some things, I know others have said things about it running Ubuntu or Mint.  Well, actually being a Linux Guru myself I can pretty much instantly tell (especially on a Debian based distribution) what the core 'base' is.

The core base is Mint.  I'm not sure if Mint also has all the Ubuntu repositories enabled, or they mirror from their own.  But the Commodore OS has both enabled (that can certainly cause issues!)

It has the Maverick Meerkat repositories (version 10.10, which means all of it is at least a year old).

There are also the medibuntu stuff (for googlemaps, win32 codecs, etc.  The things that aren't enabled by default in normal ubuntu due to not having US friendly distribution licenses.)

There is a 'deb http://www.commodoreusa.net/comodoreos stable/' replository.  I am guessing wallpapers, themes, etc in here.  They also added some Karmic repositories, the ones from getdeb, etc.  Along with a ton of different launchpad pages.  Those are for the newer versions of packages that haven't quite filtered down to the distribution release level.

From what I can tell (this is from the beta 6, I didn't see a non-beta ISO yet..) this is going to be one hell of a bitch to maintain stability on.

Again, this is coming from someone who was using Linux long before it was remotely usable by the general public (some may argue it still isn't).  

The only really 'cool' thing I've seen so far on this, is the terminal is a C64 flashback.  The theme is WAY too blue!  I think they would have been better off using this; http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Amiga+Bluetabs?content=119444

I would have thought they would tweak amiwm, or something.  At least make the interface more 'amiga-like' than this very smurfy Gnome theme.

At least they included Virtualbox.  But I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of including both UAE and E-UAE (but not PUAE) on the liveCD.  

They also have an option to install Amiga Forever.  You click on it and it says "The Amiga Forever package by Cloanto is a Windows product."  WTF?  

I figure I'll play around with it on a kvm virtual machine, laugh a bit, then make a Debian based one .

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Somebody mentioned the same thing on AW (that they offer to install Amiga Forever), can you clarify what exactly that includes? Apparently, the ROMs are not included, I'm just wondering if they're only abusing Cloanto's registered trademark or also distributing parts of the Amiga Forever distribution.

(the above assumes that they do not really own a license from Cloanto. Yes, I'm being harsh, let's just say I have a hunch).

It asks you to put in the Amiga Forever CD.  I'm guessing it's asking for a newer version than what I have (2008) because it errors out on trying to copy a bunch of games over.  It does copy the roms from it.

Oh it's horrible, since I have it installed in a VM, almost all of the dialogs are too large for it to be even remotely usable on a lower resolution.

It also comes with NO additional themes.  It does have some cool (Commodore branded) wallpapers.  Maybe I will snag a few and put on my real A4000 .

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

AmiWM is open source, someone that can actually code should pick it up and turn it into a good environment that would rule!  Always liked the look of it.

slaapliedje

I stand (somewhat) corrected, it is still kind of under development.  Latest newsflash.

Newsflash: amiwm0.21pl2 now out! (2010-07-20)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html