Re: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?
>>>>> In article <[🔎] 378C9371.4B6168FC@mindspring.com>, "Keith G. Murphy"
>>>>> <keithmur@mindspring.com> writes:
KGM> If the Amiga folks are not going to use any of the GNU tools, or
KGM> dpkg/apt especially, that would be a perverse decision. In fact,
KGM> not making it based on/compatible with m68k Debian would be
KGM> perverse, seems to me.
I think you still missunderstand the point. The Amiga folks is looking
for a new kernel. The will take the Linux kernel, cause there are much
device drivers, so they are only interested in hardware
support. Around this kernel they will make an AmigaOS. So nothing will
look like a Linux, not the command line, not the GUI and there is a
good chance even the API will not look like the Linux API. It will be
the innermost section of the OS which is based on Linux. As i
understand the text, you can say, Linux is something like the Hardware
Abstraction Layer of NT for the new AmigaOS. And on this Linux, which
is there to support more hardware, a complete AmigaOS is set on
top. And with this AmigaOS the user and even the programmer has to
deal, so neither of them will see anything of Linux.
And from this point of view, the hole thing has nothing to do with any
Linux-Distribution.
And if they take gcc as their compiler or use the dpkg/apt package
tools for managing installed software is quite another question - it
matters as much as asking, why not using dpkg/apt tools for windows
for software installation/administration.
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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.
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