[Forum] Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developers | ANN.lu |
Posted on 11-Oct-2004 10:58 GMT by MrZammler | 24 comments View flat View list |
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 cdecanini on 11-Oct-2004 20:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Bla_head): "Whats so good about linux developements on these platforms ? It has very little benifit to the amiga OS."
Think again.
- OS4 and MorphOS development are partly / mostly paid by hardware sales. If Linux can sell hundreds to thousands of machines it helps OS4 / MorphOS.
- Selling more hardware supposely makes the hardware less expensive. With less expensive hardware more hardware is sold, so there is a bigger AmigaOS / MorphOS userbase.
As for defining what an Amiga is, I do agree IMHO that both AmigaOne and Pegasos are not what I would call a "next gen Amiga" as they do not have what made an Amiga in the first place. |
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