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Offline Sig999

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Re: Trouble with XAmiga
« on: March 20, 2008, 08:04:32 PM »
Never tried it - but just looked it up, it looks like a cut down linux distro running a version of UAE - unless I'm missing something.. But from what I read it's also running it over X windows and using AmiWM.

About 5 years ago when I was playing around a LOT with Linux I'd tried both AmiWM (which is more or less just a low featured windows manager that resembles an amiga) and UAE. I ended up at one point just setting up my linux box to boot straight into UAE from the shell with all the bits and peices it needed for setting up.  The result was a pretty transparent 'Near Amiga Experience'.  I was going to mess around with the current UAE source and see if what fun stuff I could do - but I managed to come across a copy of Amithlon for sale, so I messed with that instead until that box went 'kablooie' and I walked away from it for a few years..

Anyways - point being, it wasn't hard to use any off the shelf Linux distro to do this - and I had the added benefit of it setting up all the hardware detection, installation, network setup, etc for me....

Unless X Amiga is doing something really cool that I'm missing from thier web page....

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Re: Trouble with XAmiga
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2008, 01:20:37 AM »
Don't get me wrong - I'm not denegrading their project. It's a nifty idea and a bit of work to make any kind of distribution for Linux.

I'm just thinking that if you find no joy with it - you could do such a setup yourself without their CD, and maybe you'd find out by comparison what is going wrong.