>>> [..] 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
