Ole-Egil's Debian GNU/Linux on A1G3-SE screenshots

[Seehund]

http://themes.freshmeat.net/ is another good resource for screenshots of window managers and desktop environments for X.

http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ have a bunch of particularly purdy themes for GNOME. For KDE, check out http://www.kdelook.org/.

I know there might not be much news around, but come on, X screenshots??

Something I would like to know is if the 4th PCI slot is usable simultaneously with the AGP slot, as Eyetech promised? If so, what effects does that have on the PCI and AGP bus speed respectively? That is if you're allowed to tell us, Ole-Egil (or anyone else with a mobo).

[Seehund]

Redrumloa,

Sehund, there is GOOD reason for him to show these. Just a few days ago i was ready comments(not on here) that the A1G3 was not running ANYTHING, and would never run ANYTHING.

It's been running Linux since August last year, so I'm just questioning how newsworthy this is. It would've suited better in the forum where someone was asking for screenshots IMO. Come back when at least ExecSG can be shown booting to a rudimentary CLI.

I'm not trying to be unappreciative of the gesture, but it's amusing to see some X screenshots being received as the second coming of Christ.

If some moron is claiming that hardware that's been in production and sold with a Linux distro for almost a year isn't running any OS at all and never will, then I don't think a bunch of screenshots is going to convince him/her otherwise (for someone thinking like that this is no proof anyway as screenshots like these could have been made on anything out there running any OS that has an X port). Also, we've already seen a craptacular MPEG showing Linux, X, WindowMaker(?) and a few standard apps running - that ought to be proof enough for anyone that not even Eyetech are being conned into buying vapourware this time.

[Seehund]

Oh, another thing that could be of slight interest: How long did compiling Moz and mplayer take on this box? Any other benchmarks?

[Seehund]

anarchic_teapot,

Uh, what was the point of that reply? Woody is running 2.4.18 with Tom Gall's Teron patches. And?

Yesterday I installed Slackware and compiled the latest ac-patched 2.4.19 kernel for my poor little box I'm toying around with using as e.g. an mp3-server/player, which I originally had a homerolled "distro" on. This is the first time a mainstream desktop Linux distro runs on my mp3 box! BFD! Unfortunately I don't run X there, so you can't have any screenshots... :-P

Linux is Linux is Linux. Tweak your kernel and distro all you want. X screenshots is not News.

Or has the "A1 dev team" started kernel-hacking and rewriting existing drivers/modules? Heh.

[edit: gddamnit, I don't want any bleeding GIF smileys...]
[edit again: WTF? Begone, misinterpreted GIFfy spawn of Lucifer! "Disable Smiley"! "Disable Smiley"!]

[Seehund]

olegil,

The day I run either KDE or Gnome you'll know I'm considering suicide as well. And you can quote me on that.

Heh. That's something I can sympathise with!

BTW, GNOME 2.0 was released yesterday, and it's even supposed to be "fast". I hear Nautilus on a 2+ GHz system will even open a file list almost as fast as DOpus on a 25 MHz 040...

[Seehund]

Ah, ok. So I'll just shut up, then?

Come on, now you're just being silly, Ole-Egil.
You're reading too much into things, nobody's flamed or attacked you.

[Seehund]

anarchic_teapot wrote:

Seehund wrote:

Or has the "A1 dev team" started kernel-hacking and rewriting existing drivers/modules?

No, we've been sitting on our bums staring at an empty screen.

From where can we download your GPLed modifications to GNU/Linux components then?

(I presume nobody outside the Hyperion team has access to any OS4/ExecSG alpha versions)

What exactly is the "A1 dev team" (apart from a bunch of customers who bought a PPC mobo) and what are your projects until there's any sign of an AmigaOS4 beta release?

Yeah, yeah, NDA... But you're free to tell us about any Linux-based development.

[Seehund]

redrumloa wrote:

Come on now! Just because Seehund is being Seehund means the whole lot of us are losers?

Heh. From here on a "Seehund" is the official euphemism for "someone who questions the newsworthiness of a news item".

Have a beer, play with your A1G3 a bit, and come right back to A-Org!

Hear, hear!