Amiga INC Announcing OS5.0 at CES in Las Vegas next week!

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Tripitaka wrote:
You just can't "get under the bonnet" with a Mac like you can with the Amiga.

Sorry but that's ridiculous. Have you ever tried to get under the bonnet on a Mac? If you had, you would realise that it is entirely possible, even moreso than Amiga OS. Mac OS X is essentially BSD with a pretty face. But the guts of BSD is still there. You still have root access, so you can do whatever you want.

Tripitaka wrote:
If Amiga OS was like OSX, I'd be using Linux!

That statement is contradictory. Mac OS X is more similar to Linux than it is to Amiga OS. Getting under the bonnet of Mac OS X is similar to getting under the bonnet in Linux.

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Tripitaka wrote:
Getting under the bonnet of a Mac is not as much fun or as intuitive as an Amiga.

Of course that is a matter of opinion, and I actually agree with you. But that doesn't mean you can't do it on a Mac :-)

Tripitaka wrote:
The Mac gives you the tools but if I could be bothered to play with a Mac in this way I may as well use Linux.

Fair enough. But IMO, what is great about Mac OS X is that everything works out of the box, and is easy and fun to use, but lets you get under the bonnet if you want. Compared to a lot of Linux distros, which can be quite obtuse in daily use, forcing you to tweak under the bonnet even if you don't want to. Having said that, I do acknowledge that several more modern distros are much more friendly to the casual user (Ubuntu comes to mind). Though I challenge anyone to use Linux as their main OS and never have to go under the bonnet.

Getting off the point a little, but this is all relevant to my opinion of OS X :-)

Tripitaka wrote:
Yes it is, but Linux is free. Therefore, I may as well use it in preference to Mac OS. Not contradictory at all, just economics.

Ahh, well that's a different story entirely :-) The part of OS X that you pay for is the nice easy front end. If that's not important to you, then of course don't bother buying it ;-)

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Debaser wrote:
I would beg to differ on the need to "get under the bonnet" when devoting your desktop to Linux. Ubuntu has yet to require me to do such a thing.

Interesting. Might give Ubuntu another try under Parallels :-)

Debaser wrote:
be careful about what you ask for with Apple. Not to sound like a wacko but what is the difference between Apple and M$ business model?? - One just had the leg up in world domination I guess.

To be frank, I don't care. Their business model is of no concern to me as long as they deliver products I like at a price I can afford.

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TheMagicM wrote:

Though I challenge anyone to use Linux as their main OS and never have to go under the bonnet.

I challenge you to do the same w/the outdated OS the Amiga runs on now.  The Amiga OS as it is is comprised of hacks/kludges on top of a very old operating system.  

I never said you didn't have to do this with the Amiga. In fact, I agreed that it was entirely possible (and fun). There's no way I would want to use Amiga OS without any hacking/patching.

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