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Offline Mojo

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Re: Amiga Unix (unlimited licence)
« on: April 29, 2003, 05:51:55 PM »
Commodores Amiga  Unix SVR4  comes with X windows, and Motif, or can simply be run from the command line, and runs quite nicely. The nice thing about it is not simply
the OS, Which is real UNIX,but customizatons for the Amiga, which include more than the GUI.  One thing to consider when purchasing this,  is that it when it was released , BYTE magazine said it was the easiest installation of Unix ever released. I must agree, I've had this product since it was released and I've used Linux distros such as RedHat. Without knowing very much about UNIX at the time, I answered a few questions and it was installed within 15 minutes. I wish I could say the same about the other OSes.
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clark wrote:
I would think that it'd be rather easy to get the GNU utilities working if one had GCC compiled.  There might already be one, if I understand correctly, Commodore's UNIX was just a  straight port of SVR4 (with only the GUI having real hardware customizations).

Of course, I might be totaly wrong, but that'll happen... :-D

Anyhow, all these new applications for X would run dog slooooow:  anything based off QT or GTK.

Clark