| From: | John Worthington |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 14:26:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Oh No not linux |
--- In amigactive@egroups.com, "Adam Bell" <adambell@c...> wrote:
I wasn't going to continue with this debate as I thought some
very good points had been made. Some have 'adjusted' ;) my opinion
but I still feel the same way.
Saturday I had a call from a club member who is selling up.
He is off to Tiny and is buying a PC. I had seen it coming
for a while, but I knew the migration would be total.
> If the Amiga is holding me/us back (and I'm not saying it is)
surely
> it would be worthwhile for a Linux section. This arises the
question:
>
> Is the Amiga still an Amiga if it isn't running AmigaOS? (I'd
prefer
> not to restart that debate)
:)
>
> The world is so based around Wintel systems, that it is holding
> computing back. The general view of a computer is a box, with a
> monitor near it which displays a Start button in the corner.
>
Every thought it might be us that's holding the Amiga back?
> It is all well and good people on this list trying to help people
> out, but as already been in a thread before, people prefer to see
> print and screenshots are also useful. I bought a 'Dummies' Book
for
> KDE, and so far it is patronising me. I've never felt patronised by
> an Amiga magazine tutorial.
You may feel that way. To some that may be the first thing they read
and find it hard even at that level. I find a manual better due to
my dyslexia. Some opinions are written with first person expirience
rather than thinking of others. It's only the club that made me
realise that I'm no expert but I can still help poeple.
> An AmigaActive tutorial on Linux would be good, (or how about a PDF
> version on the CD which we could all print out) and it will open us
> all to a whole host of new software.
>
not a srtaight copy of the linux FAQ :)
But I would like to see something in it.
> With my machines, I have access to DOpus Magellan II, Workbench
3.0,
> MacOS, Windows 98, DOS, Linux and BeOs and therefore a huge variety
> of software.
Myself I agree we have options but others do not see this. If there is
a reason to look at a different OS and it runs on Amiga hardware
Why not try it and support the hardware!
Regards
John
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