What will drive the New Amiga?

[slaapliedje]

Starting arguments with skeletons is cool, it's time to start digging up old threads.

Ubuntu wasn't even released back when the previous post was made.

No, but debian was, and I can install the nVidia drivers in debian with three commands (which you can string together), 'apt-get install module-assistant' 'm-a a-i nvidia' 'nvidia-xconfig'

And you don't even have to reboot, just restart X.

Ubuntu was on it's way to it's first release when the replied to post was there.

But meh, it is funny to bring up old threads...

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[slaapliedje]

Originally the hardware drove sales in the form of graphics (paint, ray tracing), games, and the NewTek Toaster.  Now I see the software in the form of the OS driving sales.  Let's vote:  how many people enjoy using Sudo, Administrative privileges, or other crap to run their computer?  How many folks do backups because on those systems you can't just copy your boot partition to another location with a copy command?  How easy is it on a Win/Mac/Linux system to run a simple script by clicking an icon (iconX)?  Change your startup commands? Change an early startup menu to select boot drives and such?  Configure almost all aspects of your user interface (i.e., not Macs)?

OS4.1 is fast, modern, backwardly compatible, and beginning to support more than just USB, PCI and SATA drives; it runs well on even 15+ year-old CPU's and looks beautiful.  Just think about it.

Ha, all of those are pretty easy to do on a Linux machine.  I have to say that's a lot of the reason why I like it, it's rather Amiga like.  Though I have to say it'd be nice to get something for the Amiga that would make it use 'cp' and 'ls' instead of 'copy' and 'list'.  without having to do aliases by hand.

But I see what you mean.  I wish I could get a PPC for my A4000D, so I could run OS4, but they're very cost prohibitive right now.  Pretty much any PPC hardware is at this point.  Of course I'm also weird and am probably more interested in playing in the Operating System than I am with any software for it.

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