X is needed - I am from the Amiga school not Unix school. I need a decent GUI.
50Mbs is still a lot.
Hhehe, this arguement could go on all day:)
I got Mandrake because basically I was sick of downloading seperately debs. Admittdely, Debian have a fairly ok install on the basic 7 disks, so I'll forgive them.
AmiNET is the worlds' largest collection of software for any platform, so I'm told. Remember, Amiga has been around a lot longer than this linux thing you kids use:)
This will mean that the web will return to being a resource of information - not commercial banner-ad ridden media-blitzed MTV-styled hyphonated nonsense:).
I think it will be great. With the 2.2 fbcon, and a console browser that supports modern features, X might be worth dumping. I am sick of clicking on things like a blasted robot. I have a decent big monitor - so I want all my apps to be fullscreen anyway (who the hell thought "windowing" was a good idea?)
I've read many people asking why isn't Amiga dead, isn't it a toy, etc., on many previous articles linked up in Slashdot.
My answer is: if a machine and it's users can continue a market for Amiga, without a functional parent company (the fastest Amiga is as fast as whatever PowerPC chip you care to mention), and people like the doubters still have to ask that question 5 years after Commodore fell, you know that there is something about Amiga that will never let it die.
It had *principle*. Jay Miner did it right first time around - the linux kernel this time will make Amiga no longer conceivbale as a toy by the uninitiated (it is far beyond toy OSs like Windows and Macs, but lags behind the *nix's). CPU is irrelevant - as are the latest fastest graphics cards with xxxmillion polys/sec.
It will undoubedly have impressive hardware - be it the MIPS+ATI graphics core, the Transmeta or PPC CPU. All these things are readily available. What makes Amiga live on is not the original hardware or software, but the vision of design.
WIndows and Macs are dying for the underlying power of linux. But they lack robust design. Linux has the power, but as Torvalds has indirectly said on many occations, due to it's development implementation, it never *had* a design.
Amiga combines it all - and adds the special sauce that makes it Amiga.:)
That's a damn primitive way of doing it......some John Hopkins medical people are doing cool research into directly stimulating the optic nerve/tract for blind people.
At the mo they use external cameras to get the images, but it would mean Neuromancer/Johnny Mnemonic stuff in under 10 years.
Of course, all that will be under medical research, which is why I'm doing medicine. Hehheheh.
I upgraded everything from 5.0 last week. I couldn't get Glibc to compile up, so I RPM'd it; apart from that , even Red Hat give specific simple instructions on how to upgrade. How simple does it have to be?
Maybe gnu/linux becoming mainstream is a *bad* thing......?
Yup there is a way (and it's simple enough and automatic (well it was for me and I didn't have to modify anything)).
MesaGL takes the Voodoo accelerated stuff and reroutes it itself to X. This does cause a considerable slow down (but it's still considerably faster than nothing).
However, I think that no-one plays games like these in a window anyway, so the full screen is just as quick as the console (I get ~30fps using MesaGl3.0 and a Voodoo I on my P200mmx having launched Quake II from X).
What I want to know is how big is the d/l going to be? All I have is a 33.6............
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X is needed - I am from the Amiga school not Unix school. I need a decent GUI.
:)
50Mbs is still a lot.
Hhehe, this arguement could go on all day
I got Mandrake because basically I was sick of downloading seperately debs. Admittdely, Debian have a fairly ok install on the basic 7 disks, so I'll forgive them.
AmiNET is the worlds' largest collection of software for any platform, so I'm told. Remember, Amiga has been around a lot longer than this linux thing you kids use :)
This will mean that the web will return to being a resource of information - not commercial banner-ad ridden media-blitzed MTV-styled hyphonated nonsense:).
I think it will be great. With the 2.2 fbcon, and a console browser that supports modern features, X might be worth dumping. I am sick of clicking on things like a blasted robot. I have a decent big monitor - so I want all my apps to be fullscreen anyway (who the hell thought "windowing" was a good idea?)
My answer is: if a machine and it's users can continue a market for Amiga, without a functional parent company (the fastest Amiga is as fast as whatever PowerPC chip you care to mention), and people like the doubters still have to ask that question 5 years after Commodore fell, you know that there is something about Amiga that will never let it die.
It had *principle*. Jay Miner did it right first time around - the linux kernel this time will make Amiga no longer conceivbale as a toy by the uninitiated (it is far beyond toy OSs like Windows and Macs, but lags behind the *nix's). CPU is irrelevant - as are the latest fastest graphics cards with xxxmillion polys/sec.
It will undoubedly have impressive hardware - be it the MIPS+ATI graphics core, the Transmeta or PPC CPU. All these things are readily available. What makes Amiga live on is not the original hardware or software, but the vision of design.
WIndows and Macs are dying for the underlying power of linux. But they lack robust design. Linux has the power, but as Torvalds has indirectly said on many occations, due to it's development implementation, it never *had* a design.
Amiga combines it all - and adds the special sauce that makes it Amiga. :)
You'd think even WIndows users might have used more of the keys by now. Duh.
That's a damn primitive way of doing it......some John Hopkins medical people are doing cool research into directly stimulating the optic nerve/tract for blind people.
At the mo they use external cameras to get the images, but it would mean Neuromancer/Johnny Mnemonic stuff in under 10 years.
Of course, all that will be under medical research, which is why I'm doing medicine. Hehheheh.
I upgraded everything from 5.0 last week. I couldn't get Glibc to compile up, so I RPM'd it; apart from that , even Red Hat give specific simple instructions on how to upgrade. How simple does it have to be?
Maybe gnu/linux becoming mainstream is a *bad* thing......?
Yup there is a way (and it's simple enough and automatic (well it was for me and I didn't have to modify anything)).
MesaGL takes the Voodoo accelerated stuff and reroutes it itself to X. This does cause a considerable slow down (but it's still considerably faster than nothing).
However, I think that no-one plays games like these in a window anyway, so the full screen is just as quick as the console (I get ~30fps using MesaGl3.0 and a Voodoo I on my P200mmx having launched Quake II from X).
What I want to know is how big is the d/l going to be? All I have is a 33.6............