Why revive Amiga?

[Dagon]

`Cause Amiga makes me happy :-) can you find a better reason?

It`s one of my hobbies, like hearing metal, reading books, seeing movies, programming in C++ etc.
(and wouldn`t be beautiful to do all these things on my beloved operating system? unite all my hobbies under my beloved computer?)

- I like the system structure (C, libs, S, prefs, devs, storage, etc)
- I like that that all my programms and the OS can be in greek and change them in english or italian in no time on the fly. The localization system is just wonderful,  no need to change the whole binary, just make or find a catalog.
- I like that the file system isn`t static, I can put wherever I want my apps, make a partition only for programms and make my own categories such as Painting, music etc, and if I want to move an app in the worst case I`ll have to edit the user-startup.
- I like the way the datatype system works, if you want to create an app you don`t have to do everything from scratch i.e. if you want your program to see a gif image.
- I like the dynamic Ram Disk :-) I dload programms there and unlha them, if I don`t like it I throw it, non need to write on my hd, fragment it or whatever.

And last but not least because Amiga is a part of me. I grew with it, I`ve been using it since the elementary school (since 1989 if I remember correctly)

AmigaOS doesn`t want to take over the world (at least not anytime soon ) it is for Amigans first (and ex-Amigans) and then when it becomes more complete as a choice (more apps like an office package etc.) for the others.

Read my quote why I want Amiga to continue to exist :-) I like to exercise myself in the things which bring to me happiness. :-) And Amiga is one of them. ;-)

(no I don`t think that anybody can find a reason to make someone spend 800 EYPO or 600 EYPO for a new system. Do you think that you could convince a friend of yours to buy a BSD/linux/BeOS box, if BSD/linux/BeOS runned only in AmigaOne/Pegasos for example? and the games of M$ OS? the apps?, Why not buying a PC? or upgrade his current if he already has one? in my example the OS doesn`t run in x86)

[Dagon]

You can crash Linux, but it takes an effort, and to be very honest,

Not to me when I installed a couple of years slackware... after a while I just logged as a root and the x server went down... with no particular reason and it was random not always...(maybe it was something I did or it was that distro that had problem), well anyway who cares about linux? I`ve got win xp, the principle is the same, they are not AmigaOS so I`ll choose for my PC the one that has more apps that I need and more games, so win xp is the winner and linux now just doesn`t exist, it took a lot of space from my hd for nothing.

I`ve installed netBSD though in my miggy just for fun and I like it more that linux.

[Dagon]

The reason your system hangs is because you remove the floppy without dismounting it.

So is there or is it not any deamon that does all this things automatically, mount, dismount floppies or CD`s when I insert them or when I remove them, without using the mouse and the keyboard, just my finger on the eject of each device. They had told me that exists but I couldn`t find any so the main reason I erased linux (apart that win xp had more apps and games, and linux just took a lot of space for doing less) from my PC was this -->

many tasks are still unnecessarily complicated

I should add: inessential tasks unnecessarly complicated.

But then again I could install something like red hat or mandrake but linux biggots would say that none of them is a good distro and I should install something like gentoo (it`s in fashion this days lol).

I guess they like doing inessential tasks like inserting a floppy or a cd more complicated than they should be.
(other unnecessarly stuff are such as the case sensitive file system which linux users will say that it is a "feature" lol `cause that way you can have two aliases with the same name ie cp Cp lol why not giving a name that has a sense? like saying what does that command or give a clue with adding one letter more?
It is a real pain in the *** when I press tab in the shell and doesn`t appear what I want just because I had a letter in lower case.)