The Commander talks about Commodore Linux

[pinback]

I may have already bitched about that in a previous paragraph, but fuck this thread.

I think fucking a thread would hurt, but even so, wouldn't you have to be a dick to do that? (Rimshot)

[Flack]

The wallpaper?

Its a Debian forked distro loaded with a few C64 and Amiga emulators, a custom Gnome 2 theme (light blue on dark blue, accompanied by zany futuristic sound effects) that includes turned on by default, all the "neato" 3D effects I normally disable in Ubuntu and... Nothing else.

If your looking for the forked, bastard step child of a mid 80's OS, it'd be more appropriate to load up AmigaOS 4.

That's what I was thinking. Changing the default colors and adding a couple of free emulators does not a good OS make.

[RetroRomper]

After I heard it was a Linux distro, the disappointment set in. Guess I was looking to see a culmination or off shoot of the original function and style of the OS that graced the C64.

On the flip side, AmigaOS 4 was released several years ago and I'd love to give it a try. Sadly, it was worked to only run on "Amiga One" computers which have been unavailable since they were announced. And they used some odd G4 addin board to a normal PowerPC system, making it nearly impossible to run on anything even slightly modern.

Quite annoying (and I'd buy a G4 Mac to run it too).

[Flack]

A friend of mine has an Amiga One and has been pretty disappointed in the lack of updates, compatibility, and support.

I was considering buying an MCC-216 (a new FPGA machine that has C64, Atari 2600, and Amiga cores available) but for $200, it seems tough to justify when you can get a low end PC for that and just run emulators on it.

[AArdvark]

When I first heard of it I hoped it would be a modern day GEOS. Oh well...


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[RetroRomper]

I guess I should have assumed that you guys knew what the AmigaOne was.

But yes, shelling out at least $700 for an antiquated platform (and they want nearly $250 for Amiga OS4 itself) or even $200 for a hardware compatible remix of several of them, isn't realistic. I'm still tempted to buy a copy of Amiga Forever though.

(And the question of AmigaOS4 on x86, appears to be an open one... Is there any reason why someone would need to validate software on AmigaOS4? Just can't see why its limited to a specialized set of hardware)/.

[AArdvark]

Just looked at the screenshots on the AmigaOS website and I have to say it looks cool. Not going to pay that much for an operating system, however. Don't what pedigree it has.


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[RetroRomper]

$2500 and it doesn't even run the latest version of AmigaOS (which was why I was excited for a full two minutes when I saw this image and heard it was an Intel CPU; maybe Hyperion had come to their senses and ported the OS to x86 (x64) systems) and is just a hokey case with last gen guts.

Isn't it just a little dishonest to brand a PC with the name of a (arguably) still current OS that the system doesn't even support?

[RealNC]

So I shut the machine down - I know with Linux you can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL, you have to use a hard reset through the on/off button

Linux reboots with Alt+SysRq+B. The SysRq key is usually PrintScrn.

Before forcing such a reboot, you usually force a sync of the filesystem with Alt+SysRq+S and unmount with Alt+SysSq+U. This ensures that the reboot won't mess up the filesystem.

For more info and more SysRq commands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SysRq