port Amiga's Installer to Linux! End the pain!

[spihunter]

I've been screaming at Linux people about this for years!!!.
To me that is the #1 reason why Linux is "not ready for the desktop". I dont want to spend an hour trying to get something installed. RPM's only work half the time if your lucky.

The Amiga installer would be great on Linux. You would think they would like it considering what you have to do to write a Amiga installer for your program. Its right up thier alley.

[spihunter]

O.K. Linux folks,

Another problem is if your using a Debian based distro and you want to install an RPM. I know there's something out there that can do this but I read that its not a sure thing.

For example:

I really want to try out the new demo of "main Actor" from Main Concept but they only have an RPM of the demo for download! Doh!

[spihunter]

@Tomas,

I agree!. Beos was the new Amiga for me. It just flew on my 500 Mhz PIII. I had that machine dual booting Beos 5/ Win 98. Beos made Win98 look like a joke on the same hardware.

Actually I read that one of the main reasons Beos finally died was because Microsoft bullied the hardware companies ( ex: Dell, Hp) from offering dual boot machines with Beos. It would be very different world right now if this had not happened.