Mandrake Meeting with Amiga

hasse wrote in to tell us that Mandrake, co-developer of Enlightenment is meeting with Amiga. Amiga Central quotes him saying "So sometime next week I'm going to meet with the VP of Engineering at Amiga. That should be interesting. I wonder if I can get them interested enough in enlightenment that they would be willing to donate programmers to the project. "

Comments

Now I understand.

[Squid]

I think I finally figured it out: The ENTIRE reason Amiga Inc. chose Linux for the kernel was so they could get free publicity from being on Slashdot twice a week.

My take: http://flyingmice.com/squid/ amiga/amiga_articles.shtml

Re:Why Linux

[Mandrake]

we're working on all of these things very carefully. we've come a LONG way in just a few years. you have to look where we've come from and look towards where we're going - as well as where we are. besides, you can't judge multimedia performance of everything just by xanim - one app does not a platorm make
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)

Re:They did *not* offer him a job.

[Mandrake]

hi. clearly you weren't a participant in the rest of the email that I exchanged with him (seeing as the participants would have been myself and bill bull) - you decide.

as far as the amiga on slashdot thing, my point (which I made to rob, also) is that I thought it was really cool stuff, but didn't think the rest of slashdot would think so, too.

As far as what I say on my web site, I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to say whatever I want on there.
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)

Re:They did *not* offer him a job.

[Mandrake]

I would like to point out that my actual words on my site were that you could judge for yourself - then I went on to speculate. and then bill bull read my website and asked me to take a few things off of it. I'm not sure if I phrased it properly but most of what people take the wrong way is the conjecture bits I draw. nowhere did I say I went up to interview at QNX, that's just what places like amiga central draw from it. my point in my return post above was more the fact that this wasn't the only bit of conversation that we had, and you don't know what else was said (and frankly it isn't much of your business unless either bbull or myself chooses to make it your business). But then again it's easy to make jabs as an anonymous coward.
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)

amiga rumors

[Mandrake]

Yes, I will be going out to see people at amiga.
No, I don't know what we're talking about, mostly I want to see what they've been up to (I'm very interested).
I haven't said ANYTHING but that on my web site, I don't think. most everything else is speculation. I do find it funny how facts evolve on slashdot.
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)

Re:no, no, Where do you come up with this crap?

[Stephen Williams]

I wonder if Amiga will include source code with their os, or just pretend there is nothing wrong with violating the GPL.

They only have to include source to any modifications they make to the kernel, or other GPLed software. If they write a brand new operating environment over the top of the kernel, they're not obliged to include any source code. Of course, you may perceive that they are violating the spirit of the GPL by doing that, or taking advantage of the free software community. However, that is a different matter, nothing to do with violating the GPL.

Why Linux

[be-fan]

I'm not trying to be a anti-linux troll or anything, but if Amiga looked at Be and QNX, how could they possibly choose Linux. Nothing against the OS but the multimedia performance in a word sucks. Running two instances of the Forsaken main.avi video gives xanim a heart attack with the first instance starting to stutter. It doesn't have 3D sound or any of that cools stuff, and has X for graphics and we all know that X could never handle even a simple game like Diablo.
I though Amiga was supposed to be a media powerhouse.

For those who question my performance claims, here is my config on that video test.
main.avi is a 218KB/s AVI, I'm running KDE 1.1.1, XFree 3.3.3.1 on a RivaTNT using nVidias new drivers on a 400MHz Celeron. When I start up the second instance of the AVI, the first one starts skipping. With 4 instances the first one is at 1 fps. Under Windows I can run 5 instances with no dropped frames.