What's the Deal With CommodoreUSA?

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I have to agree with Dammy that this thread really belongs in the sub forum for Cusa related stuff.

But just to get my nose in. Their recent business model at the moment seems to be to get people to get into this reseller model. This was confirmed by the guy who did the weak podcast and from stuff on their forums.

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lol I have been up ages with my newborn. I have corrected the spelling mistake now

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

I agree. Linux can be very interesting if you go beyond the base installs. However I wouldn't call COS Vision and Fusion, they are two competing distros that they are "working" on, imaginative.

I was just thinking that, actually, the system could have a core OS (or really, none at all), allowing the customer to decide what he/she/it wanted to run. That's one possible solution - quite possibly, the best one of all, even if I do say so myself, and I do!

Been bog standard PC's you can run pretty much any OS you wish on there for x86/64 architecture. They even admitted that they couldn't give a rats fuzzy backside about what goes on them once they leave the "factory" and into someone's home.

CUSA are just like your local hardware shop. Except your local hardware store has more choice and doesn't have a brand license to rip you off.

Also, just for the hell of it, someone did post on their forums a better build they did for the "amiga" mini resolving heat issues that CUSA would have run into.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5R...lJ0YnJYS1laNTg

It's MHT format so you may need a plugin for your browser.

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What makes me laugh is people think the Great Wall original, which is rebranded as Vic Slim, is been ripped-off in other places and by Ubuntu.

http://forums.commodore.net/showthread.php?780-vic-slim-rippoff-on-omg-ubuntu

                                                                      vic slim rippoff on omg ubuntu                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I was going throught my daily linux reads and I found this http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/m...tu-keyboard-pc I almost fell off the couch                                            
                                       
             

Made me laugh that they buy into the crap so much that they are willing to beleive that CUSA are the only one's able to sell this.