How will Hyperion continue the momentum?

[runequester]

Of course the Mac tablet will likely cost less and be far more powerful than the X1000...

Who cares ?

People still buy netbooks even though they are far less powerful, and cost more than an old PC

[runequester]

It just amazes me on how ANYBODY can get excited about a product/company that is know to bend over their consumers and charge 40000% mark up.

The "WOW" I am going to be first in line to get *ss ****ed by them just because it is Amiga"
is beyond me.

Sorry all, but the blind sheep mentality around here is nice for only so long. Some time soon you will have to wake up and say "Ouch" that hurts.

Please show us on the doll where the amiga man touched you

[runequester]

Well aren't you a little optimist.



That reminds me - How do Hyperion actually make money? The OS4 market is small as hell. I know they ported games over to amiga in the 90's, but that can't have lasted, surely? For all we know it could be an Amiga Inc situation where the company only has it's doors open for money laundering, but with a much better cover up.

converting pc games to linux and mac, as far as I know

[runequester]

People whinge about the hardware not making the Amiga what it is; which leaves pretty much the OS and the "look and feel". I say its simply the look and feel that makes an Amiga an Amiga so why not exploit that.

Make a new Amiga window manager for Linux and sell "Amiga - powered by Linux" (tm) systems instead. Then companies can produce Amiga/PowerPC or Amiga/Intel or Amiga/...

Value add by making the Linux underneath configurable entirely from the Amiga UI. There are some awful tools in Gnome/KDE for configuring the important bits of Linux that could do with a nice bit of Amigafying. Workspaces are nice under Gnome, but it'd be nice to be able to drag screens down sometimes (and not have to use Compiz to do it!)

But concentrate on strengths; the UI is fairly intuitive so make it work with Linux. Don't try and manufacture custom hardware because it'll always be second fiddle to the dedicated hardware companies. Don't try to create an entire OS from scratch because it'll never have the diverse hardware support that the existing players have, nor will you ever get the major application developers porting applications.

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So basically AROS with more developers?

[runequester]

Yes, I am an Anti- Apple fanboy, but I can put up with the Apple fanboys. Its the Linux Zealots that make my blood boil. For they can't even decide on one distro, but have to fight over millions, and they don't realize that their fancy distro won't work on anyone elses hardware, but their own. It makes me sick.

Do you even have any idea what you are typing any more?

Linux will run on X86, 68K, powerpc, your playstation 2, embedded devices, ARM processors, mobile phones, a few wrist watches and just about anything else that it can be squeezed unto. In fact, I have a hard time finding something that will run on a wider range of hardware.

As for going it alone.. how is that coming along for the amiga again? What exactly do we have to show for the past 15 years of efforts?

Fuck all. THats what

[runequester]

Have you EVER tried compiling some Linux distros? I have tried dozens on all sorts of hardware, only to have them crash or no compile properly (ever tried "tiny linux" on a P1 200 processor with 64 megs of ram - good luck.)

Who the hell compiles from scratch anymore? Plop in a CD and install it. Or hell, buy it preinstalled from Dell, like the windows guys do.
Ive been running linux for years now, on a few different computers and each time its been running just fine out of the box.


The reason linux keeps coming up is simple: AROS is the only thing amiga has right now that actually is going anywhere.


as an aside, check netcraft.com. This website is running off linux

[runequester]

I wonder how many Android/Google phones have sold.  Those run Linux, and they're pretty trendy apparently. !

http://www.googleandblog.com/android-phones-million-sold-faster-than-iphone/3564/