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Re: Does Linux have an Amiga feel?
« on: June 30, 2013, 01:32:42 PM »
I have used Linux for server, desktop/notebook, and embedded systems since the late '90s and until this very day. Unfortunately AmigaOS never got the chance to develop to a point where it would be used in all these domains but if it did, I know it would not have caused the amount of frustration I have had and continue to have with Linux.

Don't get me wrong, when Linux works it works brilliantly, it's the getting it to do the thing you want that can be quite the challenge. Like just the other day I attempted to load ownCloud on Centos 6.3. You know how on AmigaOS when a piece of software informs you that some_specific.library is needed, you download it, copy it to LIBS and voila the software works, not so with Linux.

And Linux may have sparked a revolution, but I have to agree with gertsy, there is nothing revolutionary about Linux in its architecture, in fact all of the major OSs in the market today are evolutionary, some more so than others but they all just have too much '80s and '90s odour about them. I just wish AmigaOS got the same chance at continuous evolution over the past 20 years.
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Re: Does Linux have an Amiga feel?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2013, 03:10:56 AM »
Quote from: slaapliedje;739544
... AIX is pretty much only available on fat IBM mainframes, ...e


Negative. AIX is available for iSeries, pSeries, and of course zSeries. So, not just on mainframes.
---------------AGA Collection---------------
1) Amiga A4000 040 40MHz, Mediator PCI, Voodoo 3 3000, Creative PCI128, Fast Ethernet, Indivision AGA Mk2 CR, DVD/CD-RW, OS 3.9 BB2
2) Amiga A1200 040 25MHz, Indivision AGA Mk2 CR, IDEfix, PCMCIA WiFi, slim slot load DVD/CD-RW, OS 3.9 BB2
3) Amiga CD32 + SX1, OS 3.1