Oh I meant SCO got some MS support, but no big surprise there I guess.

When someone compares a 25mhz 68040 with a 2ghz G5 its a bit stupid to say thats only because it had a processor for everything. Yeah that really makes up for the missing 1975mhz... they where all hidden in those other chips...doh.... It was and still is FIVE TIMES more efficient with resources then anything else, and thats a software thing.

That is why the Amiga was used for 10 years after they stopped making them. I could throw super high-res pics around the screen as if it was nothing. It still runs all my animations smoothly, its a fun computer.

That is one thing you can not say about Linux, being five times more efficient.

A lot of it does depend on the hardware. You can't get true color if the video card only supports 8-bit access. PCs haven't always had that capability, not as long as Amiga. So yeah, the hardware of the Amiga tops a PC by far, why not? You're paying a shit load more for it!

Linux on the other hand can compete with something like an Amiga, -BIG IF- the hardware of the PC can measure up with bitrate access. Perhaps you just have to explorer Linux more.

Any computer is limited by it's hardware. Amiga has had better hardware on the lower levels where access time and accessibility of the software counts. Don't knock Linux for not being able to out do the 'almighty Amiga' simply because the hardware driving the Operating System was lacking. PCs have and always will be the cheapest PoS on the market. Linux could match or out perform an Amiga better if Linux had the hardware to back it to a 'level playing field'.

I believe this argument is 100% founded on the basis of something like Microsoft's hidden APIs vs. a 3rd party application written with public APIs - not a level playing field!

Damn you can talk some serious bullshit.

Microsoft is much better... [apologies, but I had to fit it in there]

I actually think they have accomplised porting Linux over to Amiga. Check it out: http://linux-apus.sourceforge.net/

Description: Linux/APUS is the project that allows you to run
Linux/PPC on PowerUP Amiga computer systems.

I almost wish I own an Amiga so I could actually try it out. I heard they were great machines; but to actually expierience it would be awesome.

Since your Amiga is almost a paperweight due to everything being old and outdated, maybe you could get that to run on your amiga box and try it out. That would be excellent if it works and runs fairly fast.

If you ever decide to undertake the project; I'd be delighted to see your results!

I'm not certain however, that it will run as fast as AMIGA OS; partly why it was so quick was because programs were small (they fit on floppies!) and since Linux has become bloated (albiet never as much as Microsoft -- Windows XP has 40,000,000 lines of source. -- Linux 4,287,449 lines of source) it won't run as fast as the True AMIGA OS.

It's sad really, how back then people coded OS's to be efficient as possible and small as possible because of limited processing power and memory. Now days since we have so much memory and processing power-- it's kind of like code as sloppy as you like.

Imagine how fast your system would go TODAY if they coded todays OS's/Programs with the same determination to keep it slim and efficient as they did in the past.

Anyways, if you do that Linux on amiga install; I'd like to hear about it :) [edit] It won't be as easy as installing RH linux though I'm afraid, closer inspection of the site says that you'll have to do your own bootstrapping and such. eeek.