Comparing Apples and Amigas

[TeamBlackFox]

Because Mac users have a superiority complex and are rude as heck on most forums.

I try to get along with those using other hardware or variants but it seems some people see that I use UNIX and automatically discredit what I say as heresy. That's neither fair nor makes a good representation on the community. I think we need to remember that the everything we say is totally public and that a ton of users may be offended by our petty disagreements. Nobody wants that now do they?

[TeamBlackFox]

It is combining both Linux and AROS and could go in your direction. People here use a lot of different OSs for everyday use and work and nobody (or almost nobody) hates your preferred choice. But this here is a Amiga forum and I do not see how both are connected.

Thanks for the info but I'd rather just stick with BSD, GNU/Linux does not meet my standards for usage and adding stuff on top doesn't really change that. I use FreeBSD and IRIX as my daily driver while tracking DragonFly BSD, once DragonFly BSD is ready for desktop use I'll switch to that.

And look at my other thread - it seems that infosec is either not appreciated by some members of the community or they're so dense that because I'm a UNIX user I'm somehow a traitor.

[TeamBlackFox]

It is a little difficult to understand (and explain) when you do not know what happened in the recent past. There were a couple of times (in this case) Linux supporter trying to sell their distribution as "Amiga" to the people so some are perhaps a little too sensible on that.

I see. I guess I gotta earn the trust by showing that I'm not out for money ( I have a great job as a datacenter tech currently ) And that I'm not interested in pushing BSD or System V as Amiga - thats not the case at all. I'm just a UNIX user who doesn't want Amiga users to think GNU/Linux is the only option out there for a more practical OS.

[TeamBlackFox]

I see...

then you should make a thread on "other operating systems" and not compare it with Amiga (any variant) and say "xyz is better". On that people react a little sensible. Better stay here on amiga-related topics. We are aware of the shortcomings and tackling them already. There are a lot of interesting things you can do (even without multi-user support and memory protection).

I'm not saying anything is any better. I have a 3000 coming Tuesday after all - I intend to get it online and working as a hobby desktop. I was merely pointing out why its nothing more than a hobbyist OS currently and why people thinking its anywhere ready for a general use OS are more than a little short-sighted.

If it makes you feel any better, IRIX is in the same boat. The only way that will survive is if SGI/Rackable decide to release the source. And from the looks of it thats at least going to be awhile.

[TeamBlackFox]

It's simple.  
 
Too many idiots in Amiga community try to fight with powerpc.  
 
This jihad against powerpc is the main reason why amiga now is where Apple was in 1999.  
 
68k is too slow, x86 is useless because it does not allow for easy integration with the old 68k Software.  
 
Apple succeeded move to x86, because Jobs was smart enough to first make the transition to Unix on powerpc, then transitions to other other processors.  
 
Too many stupid people in the Amiga community wants to skip this necessary step to x86.  
 
Thats why on Amiga after all these years we still have something like Mac OS 9, and we never will have anything like Mac OS X.

Good points. We're about 15-20 years late to the PowerPC train. I think acting like Hachiko for the old hardware is honourable, if more than a bit naiive.

[TeamBlackFox]

I recently posted info about PPC desktop continuation via AOS4/MorphOS to some forum discussing about PPC desktops, the whole (weeks earlier started) thread was deleted in matter of minutes. Friendly bunch!

They're terrible to UNIX users too. They're just jealous their POS OS is a clone of UNIX under Mach.