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Offline chrisTopic starter

New OS4 Community Portal
« on: December 04, 2006, 06:32:20 PM »
A new community portal has been launched, focusing on news, support and promotion for the Amiga line - but skewed towards the official AmigaOS upgrade path: AmigaOS 4.0 and licenced hardware on which to run it.

Come and join us at amigans.net
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2006, 06:36:35 PM »
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Come and join us at amigans.net


Huh? Any reason not to stay here?  :-D
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2006, 06:41:15 PM »
amigans.net is a great site! Maybe not for the reasons you would expect, but a great site.
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2006, 06:52:56 PM »
Another community split, how great. Haven't they learned anything from the past? :roll:

In 3 years, we'll probably have more Amiga community portals than users.  :lol:
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2006, 07:14:14 PM »
*yawn*
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2006, 07:15:28 PM »
At least it made me never want to be called
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2006, 08:13:43 PM »
What OS4? What licensed hardware :-? Is this a site only targeting a few hundred Teron based AmigaOne users? That seems to be a fairly narrow focus doesn’t it?

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2006, 08:30:53 PM »
Has AWN become too liberal then, to require yet another split by those who are obsessed by the purity of the "true way"?

How ironic.
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2006, 08:31:03 PM »
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Is this a site only targeting a few hundred Teron based AmigaOne users? That seems to be a fairly narrow focus doesn’t it?


Just had a look. The main target group seem to be A1 users and some uhh... weird religious folks (not saying that both groups can't have something in common).

Glad to see that Billsey has found a new home there.  :lol:
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2006, 09:02:32 PM »
This is the kind of zealotry that gives Amiga users a bad rep in the general computing arena. I had hoped that we'd grown up enough to stop doing things like this.

Do we have any social psychologists or sociologists here? There's an interesting social theory that describes how as the resources in a society become more and more scarce, infighting among members of that society skyrockets.

Every time things flare up in the Amiga community, I think about that. Stocks of classic parts are drying up, developers are leaving the platform, and users are jumping at each others' throats over the slightest perceived insult. All this at a time when we should be banding together.

Got a problem with (circle one or more) OS4/MOS/AROS? Learn to ignore it instead of swelling threads into tarpits of inane banter about how offended you are by its mere existence. It's not coming to destroy your way of life.

In the meantime, I'll be staying here at the melting pot of AO, content in my hope that my experience with MOS, OS4, and Classics can help others get more fun out of their systems.
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2006, 09:07:00 PM »
what a silly idea. i find these so called "amiga purists" a bit irritating. continually spouting crap about their non-existent OS. let's hope you all have some hardware to shout about very soon or you're going to endup looking rather stupid. eer, actually, you already do.

"oh, we need to create a portal for OS4 only because we can't stand people talking about OSs, such as MorphOS (which ACTUALLY EXIST) and our fantasy never-to-see-the-light-of-day OS4 is soooo much better, blah blah" grow up! pathetic
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2006, 10:21:40 PM »
Uh.....


I don't want to sound like a dumbass or anything, but isn't that Amigaworld.net??


Amiga.org is for all the "normal" people, who'd just like to see *ONE* of these companies get it right for a change, not caring which one it is???


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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2006, 10:45:47 PM »
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I don't want to sound like a dumbass or anything, but isn't that Amigaworld.net??


No, Amigaworld has changed a lot after some rather intolerant moderators left there. It is much more balanced now and the moderators are IMHO doing a great job.

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Amiga.org is for all the "normal" people, who'd just like to see *ONE* of these companies get it right for a change, not caring which one it is???


Lol, good that you put "normal" in quotes. ;-)
But I agree entirey. I don't care who get's it right. Unfortunately it more looks as if both get/got it wrong. :-(
 

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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2006, 10:50:51 PM »
@Methuselas
ya, i was ranting about this new "amigans.net" site, not Amiga.org. :-) I agree, AO is the best, most neautral and above all MOST sane Amiga site, imo. ANYTHING remotely Amiga related is welcome here and that's just the way it should be.

amigaworld.net is full of spellbound Amiga Inc. fanatics and this new amigans.net is like an aw.net spliter group made-up of its most extreme AInc fanboy members.
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Re: New OS4 Community Portal
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2006, 10:51:42 PM »
@Matt_H

Well said.

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