More AmigaOne screen shots

[zee4]

Ok, he's running Debian Linux (and MacOS 9) on a G4 AmigaOne. But it's a nice clean-looking page and we'll be able to run this stuff too- next to ImageFX, of course

See: www.amigaone.at

[zee4]

I don't want to sound negative, or anything, but a computer running Linux isn't exciting in 2003

@Jope,

No it's not, but some people seem to like like it. I look at it as a source of good apps we can use  in addition to native OS4 apps.

I believe in the next few years, a lot of the apps we run on AmigaOS will come from the open-source community. Look at OS4- they're porting Mesa (for OpenGL) and there's been some talk about using CUPS (a TCP/IP-based printing system) and Python in post-4.0 releases. Already things like SDL have been ported, and OS4 is being written with GCC.

This is all good stuff.  What's more, as Alan pointed out, there are places where a PPC/Linux system would be preferable to an intel system. One example given was a large server set-up where the PPC system would save on electricity costs. While we all want to run AmigaOS, it makes sense to look at other opportunitys outside our own nitch.

Zoltan

[zee4]

When the project was announced, the critics said it would never happen. When it first appeared, the critics said it would be buggy. Now someone posts pictures to prove they are wrong, people say "oh its running Linux".

@Rogue,

What can you say, Amiga fans are hard to please...mind you some of them won't be happy until it runs on AAA...or MorphOS

Zoltan

[zee4]

Personally, I like the flexibility of being able to run OS4, Linux, and MacOS natively!

Yes, me to. I don't have much interest in MacOS- though being able to test web pages under Safari would be a plus.

Allen posted some points on using AmigaOne's as servers, basically again the point that if you run a server farm, using AmigaOnes is going to save you money in the long run.

see: AmigaOneXEs shipping

Zoltan