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[Forum] Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developersANN.lu
Posted on 11-Oct-2004 10:58 GMT by MrZammler24 comments
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Check this out: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041011-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1.

While they mention that MOS is pre-installed there, I'm assuming they'll not be concentrating their efforts on MOS stuff. (that's to be expected of course from a linux distro). So, while it is nice that Amiga-ish hardware finds it's way to people outside of the community, do you think that this is of any good for the Amiga platform in general? Or is it a sign that Amiga-like OSes just doesnt cut it for the 21st century?
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Posted by Damien on 11-Oct-2004 16:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Ronald St-Maurice):
For fun lets compare the list of features to Windows 2000 (the best Microsoft OS):

> full memory protection

Yes.

> multi user support

Yes.

> translucency/alpha?

Yes.

> hardware OpenGL

Yes.

> an Outlook clone

Plenty. I use Thunderbird for email & addressbook and e-Todo for my task list. It isn't perfect but it works.

> GUI builder and Visual IDE

Visual Studio, Delphi, RealBasic, etc... a nice RAD for Python would be good.

> standardised UI window (open, save, find, etc...) AmigaOS HIG?

That's one problem with Windows, especially with Microsoft's own software, they don't seem to have a widget toolkit that is used by everyone, unlike, say, Apple.

> proper SATA and SCSI support

Yep.

> software RAID support (found on PCI EIDE controller cards)

Yuck. Just do it in your OS and forget those $10 "RAID" cards, they suck.

> an up-to-date web browser like Firefox or something based on KHTML

Firefox :)

You also forgot:

- powerful filemanager (DOpus 8)

Extras:
- revision control system (subversion + TortoiseSVN)
- personal accounts system (Quicken, yadda)
- "office" applications (MSOffice, OpenOffice.org, etc)
- data encryption (TrueCrypt)
- media storage (Nero)
- instant messaging (gAIM)

Those are what I run on my 500MHz Thinkpad with Windows 2000 and I can't be happier. Well, a new battery would be good...

Damien
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