Subj : Re: What's with AmigaOne
To   : RENE LAEDERACH
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Sun Jun 01 2003 16:57:52

:) Rene!

 > Hi dennis!
 > 
 > DENNIS SMITH wrote to ALL:
 > 
 > DS> "woody." I bootup into to a Debian Login/Shutdown requester screen.

 I think I figured out where that name comes from! Woody was the
 cowboy hero in "Toy Story." I believe a Walt Disney animation
 movie. BTW, the next Debian version is called 'Sarge.'

 > DS> I login as 'root' dir and enter the password. Debian will boot the
 > DS> KDE desktop. Vola! Your in KDE world. There are three icons on the
 > DS> screen: Trashcan, Debian, and Home. Home opens the desktop and UAE
 > DS> window.
 > 
 > So it's pretty much standard. In other words - we'll have to port a
 > lot of goodies to get everything working as expected.

 Oh yes, there's a lot of stuff to get! Being a newbie to linux,
 I'm kind of going slow. Gotta learn a lot of linux dialect before
 I'm ready for downloading. Open Office comes up in discussions.
 My glibc and X-windows version are probably not up to it. So if,
 you get OO, you want get CUPS -- Common Unix Printing System. Some
 people like to use Opera. Ooh, I found Mozilla in the Gnome menu.
 I haven't used any browsers yet because I don't know how to setup
 the network in linux. I'm plugged into a 6way LinkSys router with
 RoadRunner cable modem.

 > DS>   From here it's my choice to do Linux things, like play with
 > Python
 > DS> from a shell, or run 'Wierd Science', I'm sorry -- UAE, and emulate
 > DS> an Amiga. Wierd -- emulate an Amiga on an Amiga -- science! The UAE
 > 
 > If you want to emulate a classic environment, there's not a whole lot
 > of ways you will be able to do it.

 Yes, how true. The classic custom chips are gone. :-\ LinuxUAE
 runs at a 68020- no JIT-in full ECS. UAE comes packed in drabby
 WB3 with Scala wrappings. That's old phooey. I got busy getting
 my OS3.5 and OS3.9 CDs to boot off the CDs. :) The CacheCDFS is
 set for SCSI.device, but the A1 is IDE. So, I made the Emergency
 -Disk with the system driver and changed the S-S and bam! We're
 lookin' good again.=:D I don't know if I want to install OS3.9?
 I kind of looking for OS4! BTW, OS4 will go on tour next month
 and AmiWest 2003. But, it's a beta version for CSPPC. No clues
 about the AmigaOne version. :-/

 > DS> runs real nice. So, I wanted to see what KDE's "KPaint" looked like
 > DS> -- it banged and crashed!
 > 
 > Losuy compile. It works. Else, use The GIMP. Even if it's free, it's
 > not bad for most of the things the average person wants to do in
 > image manipulation.

 I don't know yet...I had the A1-XE G4 for a month now, and user
 progress in exceedingly slow without the AmigaOS. About the only
 things I'v been doing is read a lot of 'HOWTO's and play with
 the UAE. A lot of stuff is yet to be ironed out -- eventually. =:o
 > 
 >     Greetings, Rene Laederach
 >     email: mousse@snoop.alphanet.ch
 > 
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 Looking good :)
 :Dennis


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