What's the Deal With CommodoreUSA?

[haywirepc]

"Skinning" a Linux distro to the extend they where doing requires dedication and a lot of work.

I've been a linux user since 1996...

I disagree. If you really look at what they've done, they've given you some wallpapers, compiz panoramic graphics, made a system sound theme and a few other things.

They have also installed a bunch of things for you from the ubuntu repos.
But thats about it. Thats not development, thats simply customizing it a bit.

Development requires actual work.

Steven

[haywirepc]

Quote:
Originally Posted by haywirepc  
I disagree. If you really look at what they've done, they've given you some wallpapers, compiz panoramic graphics, made a system sound theme and a few other things.
Yes. This is about the same work effort as the effort spent by a 13yo kid making an X-Files theme for Microsoft Plus! back in 1996 and uploading it to his AOL homepage. And the result is of about the same quality.

Only this time they needed to hire a "Chief Technology Officer" to manage that and told people they were "developing" an "OS". Big business...

:p

Now that made me laugh out loud.

[haywirepc]

I do like the look of that mini.  I just don't think its worth the money. I keep saying if they give me a free one I'll use it though.

I could use a media station, or a video game machine right now.

It would be good for that at least...

And regardless of what anyone thinks, whatever they make with linux is still a hell of alot more useful than an aos4 machine.

Maybe thats why people hate them alot, with little or no actual development effort their offerings far outperform anything AOS has to offer.

Steven

[haywirepc]

"As far as OSes go, Linux is quite possibly the first (or the last?) refuge of the lazy and unimaginative."

I don't know man, you have like a bunch of different guis/themes and window managers to choose from, you can run amiga,atari-st, c64,dos, most windows, and linux programs pretty seamlessly with some tweaking....

The ability to run software from a bunch of different systems is nice, and integrating those apps to run point and click with launchers is a nice experience, makes I suppose, the os the program was written for irrevelant,
just point, click, enjoy. It runs everything...

Also, it runs on almost all hardware... Thats nice!

Its only an os for the lazy if you install it as is, you can tweak everything to your liking, (look, feel interface, behavior)

Unimaginative? I've seen some incredibly imaginative linux rigs...

Steven

[haywirepc]

As near as I can tell, they tell people to contact mint or ubuntu with problems. Another reason they chose they, no tech support required.

[haywirepc]

The raspberry pi's success shows that a small, low resource computer with different architecture than the mainstream can be very profitable.

The problem is, designing, prototyping and manufacturing costs a great deal, in
both time and resources. CUSA isn't going to actually invest a great deal of
time or resources into such a venture.

Dumping linux on a standard pc with CUSA wallpapers is alot easier. But go
try and source parts to build 100's of pcs the same way. Even that is not easy.