Interview questions discussion thread

[olegil]

I agree with mikeymike on this one, meershaum. I suggest toning down your posting in the other thread so the (valid) question has half a chance of being answered.

To everyone else:
It helps to read the featurelist before asking, PLEASE. For instance bloodlines question was just silly. Hint: Roadshow, from the os.amiga.com OS4 featurelist

About the "I don't consider OS4 running on classic hardware as even a beta" I would say "tough luck". OS4 for CSPPC will be released to end users before the AmigaOne version, because of lack of drivers. If you have a hard time with that, that's your problem, not Bens...

Ok?

[olegil]

@lempkee:

I disagree. If Matt of AROS would rather waste our and Bens time asking about DHCP support in a product that according to the 7 months old feature list already has DHCP, then he needs some flac for that. Come on. He should know where to look.

[olegil]

Roadshow is not an integral part of OS4, it was written (and completed) WELL before Hyperion started working on OS4.

So:
What on gods green earth does DHCP in Roadshow have to do with Hyperions plans?

Sensible answer to that riddle awaited.

Edit:

Ok, ok. It was a bit harsh. Sorry. No hard feelings, ok? :-)

[olegil]

But the feature list on amiga.com was written by Ben Hermans, so why ask him when you don't trust the feature list he wrote?

Matt, you're not making much sense here...

[olegil]

The bit about MOS is interesting. It doesn't currently run on Macs either, but do we see Seehund nagging about it everywhere? No. Why is that?

[olegil]

mikeymike wrote:
I really hope this doesn't become quoted scripture for those arguing against the decision to limit the platform OS4 runs on.  The "answers" are someone's points of view on the situation at best, certainly not undeniable arguments.

And the AmigaOne isn't "POP" either, so the whole debate starts off at the entirely wrong track. IBM dropped their Linux work for the Teron/AmigaOne boards when MAI decided to go for PPCBoot instead of a variant of OpenFirmware. Since OS4 at present will not work on any POP system, it's a bit silly to demand that it should work on ALL POP systems. IMNSHO.

OS4 hasn't even been released AT ALL, so it's ENTIRELY too soon to demand ports. Really. We'll take up the debate again when Hyperion has released something to the end users. If it then seems a good idea to drop the dongle, I'm sure it will be dropped. Right now there's nothing to gain by it. Except that Seehund could buy a non-existant Boxer from Terratec and run a pirated non-existant copy of OS4 on it. And I fail to see where the gain in that is.