No Commodore but real USA
a) Buy Zotac Zbox
b) Buy Amiga stickers, see Amiga resource list and STICK EM!
Follow these instructions
Or buy it for $1000 – $2000 range here if you are laisy rich boy.
d) Send congrats to CommodoreUSA for doing their daily job
Same as with SinclairUK QL machines here 🙂
The new QL mini is only available in traditional Sinclair kit form as it reduces the cost to the consumer and to save you even more money we have decided that you would be better off sourcing the parts yourself as it means we don’t need to pay for a huge warehouse to store everything, therefore passing the savings on to you.
To obtain your new Sinclair QL mini please follow these instructions.
1, Purchase these parts from your favourite vendor.
* ZOTAC Z68ITX-B-E
* intel core i7 2600K 3.5GHz
* 1TB SATA hard drive
* 2 x 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs
* intel mini-PCIe wireless card
* wesena HTPC ITX2 case
*Sinclair Badge for the front of the case (only available from SinclairUK for just £1000+VAT)
2, Assemble all the parts, training courses should be available in your area if you don’t know where to start.
3, Send the receipts for the parts you purchased to SinclairUK so we can verify that your new computer meets the QL standards.
Once all these steps are completed, you have affixed the Sinclair sticker to your case (this is the most important part) and installed Sinclair OS you will now be the proud owner of a brand new Sinclair QL mini, the greatest mini desktop computer with a Sinclair badge available today.
You will receive a Sinclair UK welcome pack containing warranty information (only covers sticker peeling) and a CD-R disc containing a couple of emulators we downloaded.
Why buy a bog standard PC that doesn’t say Sinclair on it when you can have a Sinclair QL mini that does.
Tribute to this not only Amiga discussion where COS claimed superiority for a day
Learn what are popular Linux distros
Data Source: Distrowatch August 8th 012 (In Europe 8th Aug 2012)
Charts by Vox
August 8th 2012
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Last 12 | Last 6 | Last 3 | Last month |
| MINT |
3661 |
3787 |
3489 |
3234 |
| Debian |
1342 |
1329 |
1238 |
1171 |
| Fedora |
1684 |
1650 |
1582 |
1156 |
| OpenSUSE |
1418 |
1339 |
1214 |
1231 |
| Commodore |
256 |
312 |
364 |
356 |
| Mageja |
1415 |
1983 |
2586 |
3027 |
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2128 |
2174 |
1815 |
1620 |
Comments by Linux Mint Serbia users will be posted here, as well as your comments
Add to dis space!
Remember: Its only fake Workbench V! (real WB)
Before they used to ship without installed OS with Ubuntu CD for 2x HW price.
Commodores Amiga?
Sven Harvey Micromart UK takes a look at new CommodoreUSA Amiga Mini
The new Commodore in the USA is now the only Commodore after its taken control over the brand.
It`s also licenced Amiga brand from Amiga Inc., and it has been working on uniting the brands for quite a while.
The product that was to be the first „Commodore Amiga“ since 1994 has gone true lot of changes since the agreement was reached between the two companies, while Hyperion Entertaiment quite rightly challenged the agreement following the settlement that awarded it an exclusive perpetual worldwide right to the brand, at least in some form.
Commodore had planned on doing new Amiga 1000, 2000, 3000 and so on, but the first product to break cover and become available to order is in a 7,5 x 7,5″ mini-ITX case.
The Commodore Amiga Mini will be available in silver or black and is distinctive in that it features a molded-in Commodore „chickenhead“ logo on the top of the casing, while and embossed Amiga logo (in the original form) adorns the front of the casing along with the silver Commodore Amiga case badge very much in the traditional style.
There are few confusion on the Commodore website regarding the specifications. In one place it seems to suggests 16GB RAM comes as standard whereas elsewhere it sais 4GB. Filtering the pages it seems the standard specification was originally going to be what is now the highest end, but reaction to the pricing has resulting in lower specs being available.
The motherboard is of mini-ITX form factor and comes with 1GB (DDR3) nVIDIA GT430 GPU board as standard. From there you can choose processor, either a dual core i3-2130 at 3,4Ghz, quad core i5-2500K, or the quad core i7-2600K. Memory can be configured as 4,8 or 16GB, while blue ray slot loading optical drive (with DVD R/RW) comes as standard. A 1TB hard disk is the default option, while 2 SSD options are available.
The machines comes with CommodoreOS Vision – a customized Linux distribution based on MINT and Debian with bunch of pre-installed software.
Sounds all very PC doesn`t it? There is a reason for that. This is no more an Amiga then HP laptop from TESCO. The name is on it, but no Amiga-related technology resides within the hardware nor the software. Amiga Forever isn`t even bundled, thou it is suggestion on Commodores site that machine can run 16-bit and 32-bit Amiga software. The question is how because without Amiga Forever package, it cannot legally include the Amiga kickstart ROM code …
With pricing ranging from USD 1 500 up to nearly 3 000$ including 600GB SSD option, its a good job. The casing is available as barebones (thou this included the blue-rays sloat loading drive) at 345 USD.
The question is, without AmigaOS, should it have the name at all?
Find out more at http://www.commodoreusa.net
AmigaOne X1000
Following the complete sell out of the AmigaOne X1000 first contact systems, A-EON has commissioned further run of initial systems, so if you are happy to spend the money and get sonething really different running the AmigaOS 4.1 (and soon 4.2) you might want to keep an eye on www.amigakit.leamancomputing.com/x1000/
Sven Harvey has been our Amiga specialist for over 12 years, drawing on his vast computing knowledge which is itself the result of 21 years of retailing computer and video games.
It has been one month since this blog has been created, and lets see what has happened meanwhile.
Don`t forget numbers can only go up 🙂 Next such stats on 25 000 views
Number of visits
2490 views total, 30 views today, 481 on bussiest daym 38-66 average per day so far
Where do visitors come from?
US, UK, Serbia, Italy and Germany and many many more countries …
How do they find the blog? (still very few by Search engine)
Sources from other boards (refferers)
What do they read and what do they click on (where do they go further?)
One love from Serbia to each and every soul that supported the effort and promoted it.
Everyone is free to vote, contribute … send materials to rasvoja@gmail.com
Raspected you!
Its hard to maintain OS … when you fake to have OS
Buddy asks the right questions:
Nothing has been mentioned as to what the mentioned Commodore App Store would feature. It may be something like what Software Manager offers, or something a little more? I personally would like to see options though, where the online user can choose which software and extra Themes to install instead of what is essentially included or featured, a simple tick and choose what you want to download? Sure, main system hard drives today are enormous, but when you fill these and externals with work, space comes at a premium!!!
For me, Software Manager lacks a featured section for Themes. By example, the Software Manager Graphics section offers 6 sub categories for type of software. When looking for themes, Google ends up being my friend, which is not always friendly time wise, if you get my drift!I don’t know how straightforward this would be to achieve, but if ‘Fusion’ is still in development and to remain in beta, wholly based on Linux Mint 13, is it not feasible for a user to update an installed OS, i.e. update an installed Mint 13 OS with the tweaks and enhancements from Commodore designated repositories as to and when they’re ready? If Themes, fonts, etc can be downloaded via Terminal, surely any ‘Fusion’ graphical enhancements can be downloaded this way too, if only to begin with?
So far C=OS flaws are:
And yes, we should never forget YOU should work for them, selling their products and supporting CommodoreOS … brilliant
And as usual, they got thousands of requests …
related news https://anticusa.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/cusa-custom-configurator-programme/
And a small gift … small snaps of Eric Schwartz look on Amiga scene
Amiga led the way http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/1009eric.htm
Commodore, what if? http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/1201eric.htm
Interesting times http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/1105eric.htm
CUSA Amiga? http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/1010eric.htm
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=commodore
DISTROWATCH
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Commodore OS Vision |
Linux MINT |
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Feature |
1.0-beta9 |
13 |
| Release Date | 2012/07/01 | 2012/05/23 |
| Price (US$) | Free | Free |
| CDs | 1 DVD | 1 DVD |
| Free Download | ISO | ISO |
| Installation | Graphical | Graphical |
| Default Desktop | GNOME | Cinnamon, MATE |
| Package Management | DEB | DEB |
| Office Suite | LibreOffice | LibreOffice |
| Processor Architecture | x86_64 | i386, x86_64 |
| Journaled File Systems | Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS | Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS |
| Multilingual | Yes | Yes |
| Asian Language Support | ||
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Package |
1.0-beta9 |
13 |
| Abiword | — | — |
| ALSA Lib | 1.0.23 | 1.0.25 |
| ATI Driver | 8.780 | — |
| Banshee | — | 2.4.0 |
| Bash | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| Bind | — | — |
| Chromium | r103287 | — |
| CUPS | 1.4.4 | 1.5.2 |
| DHCP | 3.1.3 | 4.1.ESV-R4 |
| Firefox | 9.0 | 12.0 |
| Freetype | 2.4.2 | 2.4.8 |
| GCC | 4.4.4 | 4.6.3 |
| GIMP | 2.6.10 | 2.6.12 |
| GLIBC | 2.12.1 | 2.15 |
| GNOME-SHELL | — | — |
| GNUCASH | 2.2.9 | — |
| GNUMERIC | — | — |
| GRUB | 1.98 | 1.99 |
| GTK+ | 2.22.0 | 3.4.1 |
| HTPPD | — | — |
| INKSCAPE | 0.48.0 | — |
| K3b | — | — |
| KDELIBS | 4.5.5 | — |
| LIBGNOME | 2.32.0 | 2.32.1 |
| LIBRE OFFICE | 3.3.2 | 3.5.2 |
| LINUX | 2.6.35 | 3.2 |
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1.0-beta9 |
13 |
| LXDE | — | — |
| MESA LIB | 7.11git | 8.0.2 |
| MODULE-INIT-TOOLS | 3.12 | 3.16 |
| MVSGL | — | — |
| NAUTILUS | 2.32.0 | 3.4.1 |
| NVIDIA | 260.19.29 | — |
| OPENBOX | — | — |
| OPENJDK | 6b20 | 6b24 |
| OPENSSH | 5.5p1 | 5.9p1 |
| OPENSSL | 0.9.8o | 1.0.1 |
| PERL | 5.10.1 | 5.14.2 |
| PHP | — | — |
| PIDGIN | 2.7.3 | 2.10.3 |
| POSTFIX | — | — |
| POSTGRESQL | — | — |
| PYTHON | 2.6.6 | 2.7.3 |
| GT | 4.7.0 | 4.8.1 |
| SAMBA | — | 3.6.3 |
| THUNDERBIRD | — | 12.0.1 |
| UDEV | 162 | 175 |
| VIM | 7.2 | 7.3 |
| VLC | 1.1.4 | 2.0.1 |
| XFDESKTOP | — | — |
| XINE-LIB | 1.1.18.1 | — |
| XORG-SERVER | 1.9.2.901 | 1.11.4 |
| XZ | 4.999.9 | 5.1.1alpha |
8:10 to learn how to steal from MINT, 8:50 to see why people say its not AMIGA … and why there is no video 3?
Download real MINT now at no cost! Works on all Laps, PeeCees and is really supported
x86 32 bit and x64 unlike C=OS elitist x64
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
PPC
ARM soon come!
One love from Serbia!
And how do they respect MINT dem a steal, pirates and lowlifes!
Hi,
They contacted us and we talked about a partnership initially. Then we didn’t hear from them anymore so we assumed they weren’t interested in doing anything with us.
We’re still happy to see our OS used by others and I don’t think there’s any problems in regards to licensing. It’s just a missed opportunity for them and for us to establish what would have been a very good partnership.
Regards,
Clement Lefebvre
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There has been much criticism of the company CUSA because of its hype and claims of creating a „new operating system for our computers“ and then simply skinning an existing linux distribution. Critics of CUSA and several linux experts have stated that COS development time has been less than 2 weeks time to write some scripts and replace standard mint graphics files with their own
Another episode in „Abuse someone elses work““, this time AROS Barron has previously spitted on.
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Another point well taken: they will just abuse someone elses work and never countribute even by bounty. What they would do if there was no Debian, MINT and AROS? Make a Windows free software under Commodore Windows with blessings from M$?
and I do remember they promised partnership with Amiga Forever, but instead they installed ripp Amiga Forever „“feature“
http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/fo…-the-community
Note: Amiga Fover is oldest legal Amiga emulation package for Windows and Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Forever
AROS Kickstart bounty is result of a lot of work and bounties CUSA hasnt contributed 1$
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/5
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/6
Might not be ilegall, but is immoral
Another Big Ausie Liar`s lie
And just to elaborate on my response. Cloanto just wanted to know if we were including their product in Commodore OS and wanted an explanation of what we were doing.
They were fine with it once they realised we weren’t including their product, and in fact were promoting their product to Commodore enthusiasts.One day dem a partners with Cloanto, other day Amiga Inc can give dem ROMs, third day thieves and liars
And yes … InI forgot Leo`s stance on AROS
Sent: 1-Nov-2010 8:04:08
to BigBentheAussie
Quote:
OK, you could donate 1$ or 10$, 100$ if your Commodore USA Amiga`s are going to use AudioHD since driver would benefit you too and you would have it in several months waiting for others to give their contrib (like AresOne does)
We are still on the fence regarding AROS because we are waiting to hear back from A Inc’s lawyers regarding Hyperion’s threats. They’re taking their time.
We won’t be releasing any Amigas until next year so we’re in no rush.
We are not going to spend a single cent until we know where we stand, what we can do, and what we can’t do.
The drivers therefore ARE NO BENEFIT to us until we are 100% sure we’re not going to be sued.
On top of that, given the the many months of negotiation regarding this driver with Stephen, where he attempted to play us, and then brag to everyone that he nearly did, and you can see that we have less than zero intention of bowing to his ransom demands.
Demanding us to spend our money on a community that has shown such open hostility towards us is not the way for you or the community to get what they want.
This is political, and I guess it is something you cannot recognise from your armchair analysis of the situation.
Look at it from the eyes of a company that is attempting to be more than a backyard operation and you will see that there must be absolute certainty regarding all things because the stakes are too high.
This amount was a drop in the bucket of what we were prepared to spend to attempt to raise the status of AROS to that of a mainstream OS.
The reaction because we didn’t jump when the self appointed kings of AROS demanded we should does not exactly instill us with confidence in investing in AROS.
We don’t like the direction these people are pushing AROS nor the IP issues they are hell-bent on creating in future.
And based on their behavior to date and the various threats they have made we certainly don’t want to work with them.
Maybe you haven’t seen the nonsense we’ve had to put up with both publicly and in private.
Our will to try and accommodate the community regarding AROS is steadily declining.
The community doesn’t buy anything anyway, and is so fragmented it’s a lost cause.
The AROS community should be trying to gain our support rather than just annoying us, because our support would have been FTW!!!
They’ve looked a gift horse in the mouth.Special guest: original Leos Triple boot promise
Aside bussiness is also furniture
http://www.homecraft.us/vanity_about_vanity.html
Style of website also indicates similarities with original CUSA website (the sketchy one)
Interview where he first speaks of love for Amiga and than spits on it, WARNING EXTENSIVE PROPAGANDA
Click to access CEOCommodoreUSAInterview.pdf
Official bio
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Corporate.aspx
Barry S. Altman is the President and CEO of Commodore USA, LLC, B. Altman & Co. and Homecraft, LLC, all headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Spanning a 25 year career in the bleeding-edge electronics and satellite / space telecommunications industry, Mr. Altman founded and served as CEO & President of Cabletech Satellite Systems, Inc., U.S. Cable Technology, Inc., The Cabletech Satellite Network and United Broadcasting Co.
This group of companies have built cable television head ends for cable companies throughout the United States, and have designed and constructed the uplink network operation centers for such companies as Viacom International, Warner Amex, Viacom and MTV Networks.. They directed and produced the domestic satellite telemetry downlink for the Live Aid concert for MTV, which was at that time the largest world wide deployment of a live satellite television broadcast. Cabletech has designed and installed systems for Grumman Aerospace, The United Nations, government and private industry, and over 45,000 TVRO C& Ku band satellite systems for consumers nationwide. Cabletech was a developmental partner with General Motors & Hughes Communications in the small aperture DBS system that later became DirecTv.
And back to his past …
Amiga Inc settled with Hyperion to develop the OS alone in court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_AmigaOS_4_dispute
And now sells only name.
Buyer is CommodoreUS small LCC that pretends to be big just because of VIC, COmmodore and Amiga names.
And who sold them the name?
Great fake company that didn`t developed AmigaOS at all
https://sites.google.com/site/freeamiga/
And by buying CUSA products you sponsor Amiga Inc
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=35791&forum=44&5
What isn`t a parallel is that each CUSA customer supports Amiga Inc directly through licencing scheme.
Barry Altman sais:
Given the expressed desire to progress from being a licensee to
an owner of both Commodore and Amiga IP, is there any
progress on either of those fronts?
I can’t recall every publically making that statement.
Could you describe exactly how the legal situation stands
regarding the brand names (Commodore, Amiga, with
associated marks like „Boing Ball“ etc), and licenses and
ownership’s thereof?
The Commodore trademark is still being duked out in the courts, as we
have documented on our forum, commodore-amiga.org.
Amiga Inc, continues to own the AMIGA trademark and Boing Ball
trademark amongst other things. Our license covers Boing Ball
imagery on our Commodore Amigas.
How much did you pay Amiga Inc. for the rights to use the
Amiga name on your computers?
Such contracts are confidential between the parties to the agreement.
Do you pay Amiga Inc. a licensing fee for each machine sold, or
was it a single lump sum payment, or a combination of both?
I will this one time indulge you and say, both.
On the Edge: Spectacular rise and fall of C=USA 
