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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 00:15:02 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: OS features
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.46k9@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
-
- In a message of 13 Jan 96 Chris Gray wrote to All:
-
- >>> [previous poster comments on Windows having WinNT as an upgrade]
-
- >> Ever hear of Amiga Linux or Amiga NetBSD Unix? Works fine on
-
- CG> That's not a good analogy at all. I've never used either Windows or
- CG> Windows-NT, but I believe that much of the philosophy, as seen from the
- CG> user, is the same on the two. Likely much of the programming is as
- CG> well, since Windows-NT will run Windows programs. The same is not even
- CG> remotely true of a UNIX variant versus AmigaOS.
-
- True, if you look at it from an "upgrade/compatibility" point only.
- The previous poster (Teijo) also stated, however, that Amiga users
- were only "left with an old OS". Which is not the case; there are
- (free!) alternatives right now. And hey, if Linux can make such
- a career for itself on the Intel machines, then it should at least be
- able to evolve on the Amiga. It's only for power users yet, but
- nevertheless, it's here. We're not left behind compared to PC
- users in that respect.
-
- And if anyone wants an easy-to-use & established OS on their
- Amiga, there's always Shapeshifter. Ok, the Mac OS has it's
- limitations, but it's there, too.
-
- >> I agree, but it's not like Amiga users can't have their cake and eat it.
- >> There's already an alternative on the Amiga if you really want to have
- >> an MP'd OS on your machine.
-
- CG> A UNIX variant is not an option for me. I want something designed with
- CG> somewhat more recent operating system technology, and without the
- CG> tremendous amount of baggage that UNIX comes with. I've watched many
-
- Um, I've run NetBSD Unix on a 4 Mb '030 Amiga and that worked fine.
- That's not such an enormous amount of hardware to run it on.
- Only when Xwindows comes into view, you'll need about 8 Mb, but
- that's not a "tremendous" amount of memory any more these days,
- especially compared to Win95. And Unix is more comparable to
- NT than to that "temporary upgrade" of an OS.
-
- CG> UNIX sysadmins in action, and it is not something I ever want to deal
- CG> with.
-
- It's indeed not for everyone and there are many problems (but a lot
- of those come from the fact that the Amiga Unixes are hobbyist
- systems and lack good installer/user documentation), but it works.
- However, we were talking about availability, not user-friendliness; in
- defence of NetBSD I have to say I got it running in a couple of hours,
- having only dabbled with Minix before and having no real Unix
- experience whatsoever. And if someone like me can do it, well... ;)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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