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.
Bounty : Real Unity: Directory Opus Magellan II for all Amiga and Amiga-like systems. =
There has been a fair amount of talk recently about unity and co-operation between all of the Amiga camps (OS3, OS4, AROS and MorphOS). Many of us are tired of the divisions that cause many arguments and slow down progess. What we’d like to see is more co-operation between developers and users, just like we had in the good old days.
We now have an opportunity to make progress with this, by supporting the bounty that will open-source the well known and popular Directory Opus Magellan 2 desktop environment.
The bounty is hosted on the Power2People website, which has consistently proven to be trustworthy. Here is a direct link to the bounty:
http://www.power2peo…ects/profile/64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Opus
Yes there are some clones, but not as good as Magellan II
http://dopus.free.fr/clones.php
Yes there is a way to emulate it on Windows or Linux
http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=6
But please help to make it free and developed again.
Thanks to AROS Community for initative.
The purpose of the bounty is to collect sufficient funds to purchase the source code of GPSoftware’s Directory Opus Magellan II (version 5.82, AmigaOS) for free use on Amiga (and Amiga-like) systems, under the AROS Public License, a derivative of the Mozilla Public License 1.1.
The bounty will be completed when $5600 USD has been raised (now we have 1700, 3900 still left), which gives enough money to meet the price GPSoftware has set for the release of the program source code to a public SVN repository.
So what will the release of the Directory Opus Magellan II source code mean? Firstly, we will have the sources of one of the best pieces of classic Amiga software ever created, free for any Amiga fan to use.
Secondly, as the program will be open-source, developers from all of the Amiga camps will be free to work on a common desktop environment, progressing the cause of unity between us.
Here’s is a summary of the benefits, by separate platform, and in total:
–AROS–
Wanderer is the main desktop environment for AROS, but it’s still in the early stages of maturity. Having Directory Opus Magellan will give AROS users a mature desktop environment they can use straight away. This takes the pressure away from Wanderer, as well as giving another choice for AROS users.
–AmigaOS4–
Whilst Workbench on OS4 is more polished than Wanderer on AROS, there are still some gaps in functionality that Directory Opus Magellan would be able to fill. Worth noting that, when the sources are available in the public SVN, there is already some os4 devs who want to plays with, exploring what is necessary to port it to OS4.
–MorphOS–
Ambient is the most advanced of all Amiga desktop environments, but there are still nice features found in Directory Opus Magellan II that aren’t yet found in Ambient. Porting should be easy as the 68k version already works in MorphOS. To see how it looks running in MorphOS, check out jPV’s tutorial
–OS3–
Even though official support for OS3 has stopped, there are still plenty of people interested in it, as well as unofficial addons/hacks. It is clear that there will be much interest in having updates to Directory Opus Magellan as well.
—The bigger picture: Progressing together—
The ports to the separate platforms are only the start of the story. The best news is any improvements made to this software will benefit everyone. Magellan II is great now for those that run it, but having access to the sources means we can make it even better for _ALL_ amiga and amiga like oses.
Short FAQ:
Q: Why are we spending money on this when we can improve our own software instead? Isn’t it easier to implement more features in AmigaOS than to spend money replacing it?
A: We don’t have many developers, and those we do have are too busy with their own projects to start making a cross-platform desktop. Directory Opus Magellan will be a great way to get this done quickly. Also, the work to improve AmigaOS wouldn’t transfer to other Amiga platforms, whereas this work would.
Q: Isn’t this software really outdated? Look at those ugly icons!
A: It is no problem at all to replace the icons. As for the age of the software, even MorphOS users that have access to Ambient still sometimes use Directory Opus Magellan. AROS and AmigaOS4 users should enjoy having access to such feature-rich software, with many features not available in their current desktop choices (Workbench, Wanderer or Scalos).
Q: Why is it so much money?
A: $5600 USD sounds like a lot of money for one person, but if we all work together, little by little we can raise the necessary funds.
Q: Who will port it to [insert OS of choice]?
A: Porting software is much easier in comparison with writing software from scratch, pretty much any developer can do it sooner or later. A few developers have already expressed an interest in starting the porting work.
Q: This bounty will only open up the source code, why is this such a good thing?
A: Apart from the chance to port Magellan to all Amiga platforms, it also gives us the chance to improve it.
Q: If we don’t reach the bounty target, can we reuse the money elsewhere?
A: Up until the point the target is reached, you always have the choice to receive a refund for the money you’ve donated.
Q: Has anyone signed a contract with GPSoftware, ensuring that the money we donate will be handled correctly?
A: Power2People are the organisation handling the donations, and have proved themselves to be trustworthy, even with larger sums of money.
So let’s reach into our wallets, and show we really want to support unity in the Amiga community, bringing ourselves a great piece of software in the process. Here’s the bounty link again:
http://www.power2peo…ects/profile/64
We already collect 1/3. We can do it for real !
Thank you all.
Review TOTAL AMIGA 2 Check out the review of Directory Opus Magellan II in Total Amiga 2 magazine, page 22. Tutorials are in Total Amiga 10 (page 40) and Total Amiga 11 (page 44)
Directory Opus is probably one for the most popular programs for the Amiga and seems to be found somewhere on almost everyone’s machine. When GPSoftware upgraded DOpus (as it’s affectionately known) to version 5 they took a big step in abandoning the fixed two file list design of previous versions (and many other file managers) and changed to a much more flexible unlimited windowed design. Many existing DOpus users made the change but quite a few found it just too different. However the change did make DOpus attractive to many new
users, myself included.
The version of DOpus I’m looking at here is called Magellan II and version number wise it is actually version 5.8. This version is the culmination of 4 major upgrades since DOpus 5 was released.
DOpus Magellan II Is supplied on just 3 DD floppy disks and comes with a substantial manual for version 5.5 (2 versions ago) and an addendum manual for Magellan II. When you come to install the program you find that the disks like the manuals consist of version 5.5 and an upgrade to Magellan II even if you buy the full version. The means you have to install 5.5 and then upgrade it to Magellan II, however the installation is very straight forward and well explained in the manual so this isn’t much of a chore. Once installed you have to
serialise DOpus and this procedure has to repeated if you re-install or move DOpus on your harddisk.
One of the options you get when you install DOpus is if you want to start it in Workbench Replacement Mode (WbR). While you can run DOpus 5 like a standard directory utility, loading it when needed, it is really designed with the WbR mode in mind. If you choose to install DOpus as a Workbench replacement it loads as you boot your Amiga instead of Workbench (which contrary to popular belief is just another program (albeit and important one) loaded by the loadwb command in your s:startupsequence).
If for some reason you need a standard Workbench you can hold down Shift while you bood to disable DOpus. In WbR mode DOpus can be used in almost exactly the same way as Workbench but it’s file management power is always there when you need it…
File Management
Initially a DOpus screen (in either WbR or standalone mode) looks very similar to Workbench with icons for all your disks, DOpus can even use your WBPattern preferences for the backdrop and window patterns. It’s when you double click an icon to open a directory window (called a lister in DOpus) that the changes start to become apparent. In DOpus listers have 3 display modes: Icon mode looks and acts almost exactly like Workbench. Name mode has a list of files and directories like a view by name Workbench window but it also has a button bank and popup menus so common functions are just a click away.
The final mode is Icon Action which is a combination of the previous two adding name mode buttons to the icon view. As with Workbench you can snapshot any lister into a particular mode but DOpus goes much further with this functionality allowing you to set up what information is shown (in name mode) and even what buttons are on the button
bar for any directory.
Each lister actually runs as a seperate process which means that when one or more listers are busy you can simply open another one and get on with something else, this is very different from Workbench where you always had to wait for the current function to finish before starting another.
When you want to perform an action between two or more directories, for example copying or moving files you have to tell DOpus where the source files are coming from and where the destination is. Each lister has a box at the top right hand corner that displays SRC, DEST or OFF. If you click this box you get a menu so you can choose a different option for this lister. Normally you can only have one source and one destination but if you wanted, for example, to copy the same files to several directories at once you can lock several listers as destination and DOpus will copy the same files to all the directories. As you select different listers DOpus tries to guess which you want to be source and destination, making sure that the current lister with selected files is always the source. This means you soon get used to checking exactly what is selected before starting an operation. This automatic selection does drastically reduce the amount of source/destination setting you have to do manually.
Your Wish is my Command
When you click on a button in a Dopus lister or choose an option from the popup
menu you are actually causing an Opus command or set of commands to be executed. Lister buttons are only one of the many ways you can execute these commands. DOpus allows you to set up your own menus (similar to Tools Daemon), button banks (replacing utilities like Tool Manager). New in the Magellan version are startmenus which are buttons with a cascading menu ala Windows 95. But that’s not all (!!!!) you can setup commands to execute when you perform certain actions like inserting a disk or opening and closing listers (there’s about 30 actions to choose from).
Directory Opus provides a huge range of file management commands with everything from simple copy, delete and move to much more complex actions like encryption… whatever you want to do to files you’ll almost certainly find DOpus can do it. If it can’t then you’re free to use your own commands, these can be Workbench or shell programs and AREXX or shell scripts. What’s more you can define any combination of these so you could copy some files using the DOpus internal copy command then work on them with an external shell command with one click!
Whether you are setting up a command to be executed from a button, menu, double click or any of the other methods you’ll find you always use the same Function Editor so you only need to learn it once.
File Types
DOpus has a built in file type recognition system which lets it recognise a particular type of data file from its file extension (.jpg, .avi etc.) or internal structure.
Opus comes with a wide variety of file types it can recognise and there are several packages of file types available on Aminet (and the DOpus Plus CD, see boxout). If you can’t find one matching the file you want then you can make your own using the filetype editor. Once you’ve found or created your filetype you can specify the commands you’d like available for that file. When you right click a file you get a pop-up menu of basic commands like rename and delete but with the filetype editor you can add options to this menu specific to that type of file. For example you could add an Edit option to IFF ILBM files that loads them into your favorite paint program for editing. You can also specify commands that are executed when you double click or drag and drop files. As an example of this by default
DOpus comes setup to view the contents of an lha archive when you double click it and to decrunch it when you drag and drop it into another directory.
Replacing 3rd Party Hacks
After several years of development Directory Opus Magellan II is a very stable Workbench replacement and in about two years of use I haven’t found anything that won’t run because of it.
Because DOpus has functions like toolbars, user definable menus, NewIcons support and is much more configurable than Workbench you’ll probably find many of your current hacks and patches can be removed resulting in a more stable system.
As you would expect DOpus fully supports CyberGraphX so you can have a beautiful 16 or 24bit Workbench if you have a graphics card and also seems to run stably with hacks like MCP which some of us couldn’t live without.
A new feature of Magellan II is themes which allow you to save an Opus configuration complete with backgrounds, colours and sound effects to a theme file. You can then recall all those settings by loading the theme file. This feature allows you to build up a library of your favorite themes and have a random one each time you load Opus. You can also download themes from the internet or CDs to use (the DOpus Plus CD has many examples, see boxout) and DOpus can convert themes intended for Windows 95 so there’s a huge library all ready and waiting.
But it Can’t all be Perfect
I can think of very few bad things to say about DOpus Magellan II but I think it’s main problem is its sheer complexity. Although the concepts are the same all over the program (like the common Function Editor I mentioned earlier) there are still a huge number of options. GP Software are obviously aware of this as one of the changes in Magellan II is to place all the preferences in a single multi-page Environment requester instead of in two requesters which made it hard to find a particular option. However the new Environment requester now has 21 pages so it’s still a lot to search through. Personally I love the way you
can setup Opus to do just what you want and I think the huge number of options are inevitable to achieve this. If you’ve never used Opus at all before (as I hadn’t when I originally got it) you’ll probably find it takes some time (maybe a couple of months of regular use) to get comfortable with all the options that are available. Even then occasionally you’ll find new things.
The Opus manual is extremely through going through how everything works, all the commands that are available, and what all the options do. However it is very much a reference rather than a tutorial manual. It’s not the sort of manual you can take to bed and read (OK, I’m that sad I’m afraid). What would be great would be a set of tutorials to get
new users going (see DOpus Plus CD boxout for details of a tutorial set available) otherwise there’s a good chance some of Opus’ power will be left unused.
Conclusion
Opus is one of those programs which ake you wonder how you ever lived ithout it. For someone like me who oves to customise his environment and et up everything “just so” it’s great. The ork you have to put in learning it is well orth it for the rewards you get… previously complex operations are a snap. So if you don’t have DOpus 5 get it NOW… in a couple of months I think you’ll never want to give it up.
Another question is whether the Magellan II upgrade is worth the money, to be honest as you can see from the What’s New boxout the changes are mostly minor improvements, nothing that’s a real “must have”. For the upgrade price, which is well over half the new price, I would expect this to be a major upgrade. If all the changes to the main program and the FTP module are important to you then it’s probably worth it. In my opinion GPSoftware would have done better to put the Magellan II upgrade on the DOpus Plus CD and sold it as a bundle. This would give upgraders and new users the really useful tutorials and extras along with the minor improvements in Magellan II for a reasonable price. As it is I find it really hard to call this upgrade good value for money.
Pros
Configurable to the nth dgeree.
Expandable with commands
Cons
Intimidating for beginners.
Upgrade expensive for what you get.
OPUS FTP
It’s amazing what you can do with a DOpus lister but one of the cleverest features of DOpus which has seen its second manjor update in Magellan II is the FTP module. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a popular method of moving files between computers on networks and the Internet, for example Aminet is available on FTP sites all over the world so anyone with an Internet connection and an FTP program (often called a client) can access it’s massive archives of Amiga software.
The DOpus FTP module is an FTP client which instead of being a stand-alone program displays the content of the remote FTP site in an Opus lister. You can then use the normal Opus commands on the remote files even though the FTP server may be on the other side of the world. As an example when I update my website I copy the files onto the webserver using FTP. With the Opus FTP module I simply open a lister for the website directory on my harddisk and another for the FTP site and drag the files over.
For use with Aminet DOpus FTP doesn’t support the useful ADT (acronym alert: Aminet Download Tool) mode that AmFTP implements which allows you to view the most recent uploads since you last visited… however DOpus FTP does show you the short description of each file as you browse Aminet which AmFTP doesn’t so if you’re a regular visitor like me you might want to use AmFTP to check what’s new but for general Aminet browsing and FTP work I think Opus FTP now has the edge over its rival.
In Opus Magellan II the FTP module has been enhanced again (there were major improvements in the original Magellan). Some of the cool new features include:
Custom configurations for each site including custom tool bars for FTP listers.
Recursive copying and deleting so you can copy whole directory structures in one go, great for websites.
You can now use the new NEWER option of the Copy command with the FTP module to copy only files that don’t exist or have a newer file date than those on the FTP site. With the new recursive operation you can update a website with one copy command! DOpus FTP is cool and in many ways out does stand-alone FTP programs plus it has the advantage of being integrated into DOpus.
DOPUS CD
Along with the new Magellan II version of Directory Opus 5 GP Software have also released a companion CD for DOpus called DOpus Plus. On the DOpus Plus CD there is a collection of enhancements, themes, icons and images to help you customise your DOpus. The highlight of the CD however is the excelent set of HTML tutorials which can be viewed using any webbrowser (a cut down version of IBrowse is included). The tutorials are split into four sections:
Starting – Explains the basics of Opus in a nice friendly style including plenty of information for users upgrading DOpus 4.
Advanced – Once you’re happy using DOpus this section has loads of hits and tips to personalise DOpus just how you want it.
Coding – How to program add-ons for DOpus in both AREXX and C. Extensive tutorials are included for both languages.
Fun Stuff – This section includes lists of utilities that compliment DOpus and those that don’t work with it. How to navigate around Opus with the keyboard and a few tips and tricks you might not have picked up on.
The tutorials are really cool and will help you get going with DOpus much more quickly. Even long term users are bound to find many things they didn’t know about before. Along with the useful collection of add-ons I’d say this CD was well worth buying.
New in II
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Throw in some cash to make it open source
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/64
The AresOne 2012, just like its predecessors AresOne, AresOne 2010, and AresOne 2011, is a complete PC system specifically assembled to be used with AROS. The hardware components were selected to get the most out of the current AROS version, and to be ready for future improvements. The AresOne 2012 is suitable for Amiga enthusiasts, friends of light HTPC systems, and experienced users, it is not intended for the average Windows user (please keep in mind that AROS, albeit progressing nicely, is still in development).
The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It’s an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with Amiga OS at the API level, while improving on it in many areas.
Additionally to AROS, the AresOne can be pre-installed with Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu or Windows, if you wish.
(BUT WHY ? NOW WITH AEROS THERE IS NO NEED)We also include a special OEM version of Amiga Forever with the package. The latter is useful for UAE since it contains the required Kickstart and Workbench images (1.3 and 3.x) for UAE plus 50 games and 50 demos. If you need more Amiga Forever, you can also purchase the full version at a reduced price. Every AresOne customer gets a licence for the AMC software package, the program is available for download on the AMC website
A portion of the AresOne profits will be used to fund AROS projects, especially driver development and licensed application software.
So the new system is still AROS native compatible.
So you will get AEROS + you AROS distribution of choiceWe have decided to add a Geforce to the base system (please check configurator for more options). This way you can use 3D acceleration in AROS native and AEROS straight away.
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6457
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDOKF2-FBU&feature
http://www.vesalia.de/e_aresone.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System
http://www.youtube.com/user/AresComputer1?feature=watch
eur 300 + options
Lets remember how C=USA abuses AROS
https://anticusa.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/commodoreos-beta-9-uses-aros-kickstart/
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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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 |
|
Package |
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
1. We will do All in One Amiga computer
So many A1200 and A500 photoshopped pics and they never did it, Loriano was better and with more style.
2. We will support and develop AROS
They blame it on Hyperion that has threatened with legal action, but hey, its easy to build AROS compatibile sys
They promised AROS development (see Leos post at Aros.exec and them shamefully bashed AROS just because they needed to pay for drivers to get it working on C64x.
3. We will build a new OS
They have just bloated Mint 10 distro, and yet its slow, with awful speech synth and doesnt support well hardware. Better use real MInt 13
4. We are open source power
No, you just steal someone elses work, and you dont invest in Linux at all
5. We are Commodore
No you are just abusers of its fame, you are 4 man and a dog. One is IT literate, non is polite and human.
6, We are Amiga
As much as Amiga Inc that every your buyer sponsor and keep alive.
7. We are as good as Apple
Apple should sue you for Amiga Mini and VIC Mini, as well as for supporting Hackintosh. Tommorow I will writte to Apple
They do unique designs of computers and periphals with taste, and do have OS of their own.
( yes I did wrote to Apple)
8. We will beat Dell
No you will not with such prices
9. We produce a lot of computers
Judged by size of community, where many people are just COS users on their own hardware, you are just OEM rebrander that works on demand, low demand. And your pyramid multilevel scheme needs real dumb people to go.
10. We have 30 million budget, we will buy all Amigas, PowerPC is dead
No, budget was just fakerism your sad PR invented, you will never buy real AmigaOS, PowerPC is more alive then all of you. You even ripp of Amiga Forever.
On the Edge: Spectacular rise and fall of C=USA 
