Re: please recommend a hardware
>>> [..] I happen to have an AmigaOne running Debian at home right now.
>>
>> Where did you get this AmigaONE?
>> I wanted to buy a board from eyetech, but they said they will only
>> ship them when AMIGA OS4 is finished even if I just want it for Linux.
>> Is there another place to buy the AmigaOne-SE, instead from eyetech?
>
> I am on their developer list, together with Hyperion (who is finishing
> AOS4) and a few others. Like I said, we're not quite ready for end user
> release. So if you need a board yesterday, I would buy a Mac. If you can
> wait a month or two, I would say an AmigaOne would fit you just fine.
After it comes out... why not buy a Mac anyway?
The AmigaOne looks to be pretty lame.
Unless you can run quiet (without any fan or spinning disk)
then the 600 MHz G3 is a joke. Here I have a 450 MHz G4,
first shipped about 2 years ago, that doesn't have a fan.
Introducing a new machine with these specs is insane:
case: bland, bulky, awkward, noisy
video: 2x AGP
mem: 133 MHz SDRAM
cpu: 600 MHz G3 (can't use MaxBus protocol)
ports: slow USB, slow Ethernet, worthless floppy and PS/2 mouse
You people are 2 or 3 years late. I pity your investors.
I have to wonder if everyone building the design knew
that it would be a disaster... but the investors were
dumb enough to pay, so why not?
It's not as if only Apple can get the G4, that's bullshit:
http://www.fastcluster.com/products/datasheet/fcdatasheet.htm
http://www.mc.com/search/productslevel2.cfm?id=6&type=product
http://www.skycomputer.com/ (site being redone now)
> The trick is the firmware doesn't excactly make us frolic in the fields.
> Yet. So you wouldn't be very happy with it as it is. The hardware seems
> to work, though ;-)
Typical crap:
undocumented settings
bad to non-existant help (important -- can't check Google!)
FORTH
command line w/o tab completion, arrow keys, history, backspace
Oooh, a SLOW motherboard+cpu for the price of a whole PC.
Yeah, that'll sell.
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