Subj : Re: What's go'n on... To : WENDELL WATANABE From : DENNIS SMITH Date : Fri Jan 16 2004 23:49:00 -=> WENDELL WATANABE wrote to DENNIS SMITH <=- WW> On the subject of What's go'n on..., DENNIS SMITH had this to WW> say... DS> What was the linux distro was it ? YDL is working out for some of .... WW> That was Red Hat (best I can recall). I even started off in a bad way WW> as it didn't support my video card. Later, I got ahold of a more recent WW> version that did work ok and used it for a bit but, still didn't find WW> it very user friendly. I actually felt more comfortable using WW> windwoes!! Saw a lot video card madness on my MLs. I'm using a plain jane Radeon 7000 64Mb DDS. It isn't the hottest tech, but is A1 in the A1! =:o It's all in the drivers that the distro handles. Debian comes up short for the more up-to-date cards. BTW, ForeFront Technologies will be doing ATI and Matrox drivers for OS4. Don't hear much about NVidia stuff. IMHO, linux is too of a knowledge-base expert system, while Windows and of course her glory -- Amiga, are intuition based. :-) .... DS> I decided to get the A1 based just on fact the A2K was getting too DS> old. That was a good call becasue the A2K fizzled out around the DS> time the A1 showedup. Lucky me -- and it order about a year in DS> advance! =:o WW> yes, real Amiga hardware is getting older and older and harder to keep WW> going. When I had trouble with my A4000t a couple of months ago, I was WW> seriously considering just using Amithlon or Amiga Forever and WW> forgetting about the hardware all together. I hear Amithon is OK, but Amiga Forever isn't. DS> I recently installed OS3.9 and some programs. My favorite file .... WW> Good news to hear you getting those programs runnning! If the UAE is at a decent update, it's about as close to a real Amiga that can be emulated. WinUAE still had the edge. DS> Two killers of speed on the A1, DMA via ArticiaS and JIT engine DS> for UAE. WW> hmm, more recent verions of Amiga Forever are REAL slow on my pc. I WW> wonder if that JIT has something to do with my problems? Might be worth WW> a look into. I would recomend AIAB before Amiga Forever. And it's free! :) I haven't touch it a while since the A1 arrived. Well, I haven't heard anything on the ol'grape vine as to what's up with OS4. Hmmm, silence kind of means -- not ready yet and which begs the worn out question -- when? Dennis WW> wendell@eskimo.com | http://www.eskimo.com/~wendell/ --- MultiMail/Linux v0.43 * Origin: Eastpointe BBS (1:120/228) .