What mania? The reaction to the C64x outside of the Commodore/Amiga community totalled one brief moment of "huh, really?" when it got its first real publicity in the outside world, followed by a handful of tech-site articles noting that "well, uh, it's a nice case, but it's just a mid-range Atom board in there, so...what's the big deal, again?" Hell, there was as much interest in CUSA generated when Barry theratened to sue OSNews. And we haven't seen the sales numbers (or rather, the real ones, not the dammy ones,) but I guarantee you if it were anything even close to 100,000 there would be a whole lot more crowing from the CUSA sycophants.
Well, certainly, there are web reviews, don`t know have the major magazines reviewed it at all. Loved the Wired comments "It’s a cute gimmick, to be sure, and one that would surely sell well if it didn’t cost so much. As it is, there must be a very limited set of customers willing to drop big money on a novelty Ubuntu box.
And anyway, the real nerds will be waiting for Commodore’s next big project: The resurrection of the majestic Amiga, albeit in the shape of a DVD player. These machines will use PC hardware but run “Commodore OS,” a mysterious operating system that will either be awesome or awful. I can’t wait."
It's all but disappeared down the public-interest hole, and considering that by more than a few accounts the end-user experience has consisted of pestering Barry to fix the cooling problems until he stopped pouting and put in another fan, that's probably merciful. They don't need to revive interest, they need to let it die down until everybody has completely forgotten and then start fresh.
Hint: it's going to be a Linux distribution with a custom skin on the window manager. If he's feeling really wild it might be FreeBSD.
Well does it takes months to beta test little add-ons and AmigaForever integration? And boot screen choice? Lets see can they do better!
Even name of COS have changed (like a real serious company, they could rename themselves - persons in charge - one day) ... its just Linux Mint. And two flavours - retro and future! Even its fairer when people know what it is, one must note.
"Today I am proud to announce that I have selected Linux Mint 11, Commodore OEM Edition, as the Operating System that we will install on every new computer we produce. We will make this Mint 11 distribution available to all of our current owners as well. Additionally, our CTO, Leo Nigro has developed and produced a retro inspired ISO, based on Linux Mint 10, which will also be available. "
