[News] AmigaONE Shipment Delay - First Users NDA and Installation of PPC SUSE Linux | ANN.lu |
Posted on 19-Jun-2002 10:42 GMT by Raffaele | 81 comments View flat View list |
In a thread reply into Yahoo Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amigaone/message/17027 Eyetech answers regarding these three arguments: 1)AmigaONE Shipment Delay, 2)first users must sign NDA and 3)Installation of PPC SUSE Linux on AmigaONE realized by experts who receive the charge (by the list of the developers of AmigaONE) to set up an easy installable distribution of PPC SUSE Linux. (Read More)
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Anyone who ordered a developer board - dealer or end user - was subscribed to a closed list under NDA.
Several people on this list are on the closed a1g3dev list have boards and some - but not all - of them have boards.
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Some people on the list have far more experience than others when it comes to installing linux.
Since the dev group voted to initially standardise on SuSE PPC Linux - and the A1 boards are NOT the same as the Teron CX boards (which run Turbo Linux) - the group decided to let a select few of the real experts to make an easily installable distribution of SuSE Linux PPC and UAE-PPC first.
The remaining dev boards have already been manufactured but will not be available until this SuSE/UAE release is finalised.
Hyperion are making good progress with sorting out the OS4 boot process...
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I have seen it on Czech Amiga News
Bye,
Raffaele
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 20-Jun-2002 08:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Budda): > I am aware what an NDA is. My point was why bother mentioning NDAs
> when they could just have a closed mailing list.
They DO have a closed mailing list, but without the NDA anyone on that list could reproduce anything they read there wherever they want, even forums like Amiga.org or ANN. The closed mailing list protects the subscribers on the list, and the NDA protects the information.
> With all this NDA speak, it sounds like they've got something to hide
> from us. It's not like Linux is a closed top-secret project.
I think they are trying to hide the exact state of things at the moment, because if there was any information open to the public, people would find things to question and criticise, and Eyetech are extremely sensitive to criticism these days. It's probably easier to say nothing and respond to all criticism with "you don't know what you're talking about because you're not on out NDA list".
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