rayt wrote:
why is everybody drooling about 68k unix/linux?? the only reason to have an amiga is amigaos.. if you want to run linux/unix you can buy a cheap x86 boy any time..
First of all:
Not
everybody is drooling, as
you are appearently not...
BTW:
If you don't accept the necessity of Linux on the Amiga (or even Windows on the Amiga) - what are you doing here in the "alternatives to the AmigaOS" section at all?
Secondly:
Only dummies buy an computer just to run the OS.
:pissed:
What makes a computersystem valuable is the availability of applications you need to do your work with.
And you simply can't say that on the Amiga platform all the applications exist that I need to do my work with.
It starts with the lack of an up-to-date browswer and goes up to the lack of tools to make an secure log on to my company's network from home, not to mention that the application I have mainly to work with was exclusively written for WIntel boxes.
As it is planned that our company moves to Linux, so my "main-application" is also going to be ported to Linux - and not to AmigaOS...
One now might ask why I bother with the Amiga at all.
The answer is quite simple:
It's my beloved hobby on the one hand side - and on the other side I don't want to have several different systems - my flat and my desk are too small for that!
I really would like to continue my 16-year-long support for the Amiga - but only if the next generation is usable for
me.
Back in the ninetees my classic Amiga 500 with a small hardware add-on was able to run the mainstream OS and its applications as well - if a new Amiga should not be able to do so, it is simply unusable for me.
Then I would keep & run my classic Amiga as long as it lives for hobby purposes and get me an x86 system for my work...
