| [News] French AmigaOS On Tour presentation available | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 07-Jul-2003 10:03 GMT by Denis Troller | 70 comments
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The AmigaOS 4.0 Powerpoint presentation that was displayed in Montlaur on saturday the 5th is now available.
This document was displayed to the amigans in Montlaur, France last saturday. It is a snapshot of the work in progress on AmigaOS 4.0.
We hope this will help you understand what was realised, and what still needs to be done.
Please note that the list of PPC modules is growing everyday (and I mean everyday : This morning we received icon.library).
The file is available as a PowerPoint presentation (original file), a PDF file, and a set of JPEG images.
This is a french document, so please feel free to translate it.
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| Posted by Janne Sirén on 08-Jul-2003 09:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 48 (Daniel Miller):
>I agree with the people who made negative comments about the fact that this
>presentation is in Powerpoint.
Well... I don't.
While I do agree that the "good old spirit" is far more present in MorphOS than in Amiga Anywhere, I don't think that has anything to do with using PowerPoint in an OS4 presentation. Obviously OS4 has a lot to do with the "good old spirit" regardless of the presentation tools used. Let us use the tools that fit and do the job, not hamper ourselves further by trying for the maximum sentimental value.
As far as I understood, the presentation was done by a volunteer that travelled a long way to present it (do correct me if I am wrong) and this makes me feel as I do even stronger. If somebody, be that somebody advocating any of the available solutions, goes to these lengths to support the community, he/she can surely use any tools he wants to, has easy access to and know how to use.
When we had the Pegasos/MorphOS demo in Oulu, Finland last year, I travelled 600 km by train with my Windows laptop to help with the Internet connectivity at the meeting (obviously we used the laptop for more than just the Genesi demo, but we used it with that too). I doubt the people on the receiving end of the IRC/audio/webcam feed from Genesi's visiting team minded that we used my laptop for the purpose. And why should they have? They were happy to get the info they got. And we were happy to provide it for them with the tools we had.
Use the tools that are available, accessible, reliable, you know how to use and get the job done. If we would have had to use Amiga's, the Internet feed probably would not have happened - I didn't have required machines and volunteers for this kind of stuff are pretty rare these days.
There are far more poignant arguments to make within the current extended Amiga community, ones that really deserve our attention and debate. Please, let us not spoil and diminish those by nitpicking on every insignificant detail.
For once, I agree with Ben Hermans. This is a silly debate. |
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