Amiga OS ported to the EEE PC
If you remember the Amiga OS I am pretty sure it is fondly. This OS was so far ahead of its time and in many respects reminds me of OS X. Amiga Forever 2008 is still alive and kicking with development still ongoing and they are porting it to a lot of different devices. Imagine my surprise recently to find that they have now ported Amiga to the EEE PC! I wonder when Kevin will be installing it on his?
I've been thinking what would be cool is if VMWare made a version of VMWare Player that worked natively with the Eee PC (or an equivalent). They you could switch operating systems as simply as copying image files to storage cards. Something like a little ESX server except instead of running multiple guests OSes simultaneously it would emphasize the ability to switch different OSes easily, or be able to download different application packages via the VMWare Player "appliances."
Posted by: Frank McPherson | January 21, 2008 at 02:07 PM
I still have my Amiga 1000 & 2000 boxed away. My favorite computers of all time.
Posted by: Rodfather | January 21, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Huh? There's VMWare Player for Linux, which EEE uses. ;) There're even more virtualization solutions for Linux, most IMO better than VMWare - Virtualbox, qemu...
Posted by: Xinill | January 21, 2008 at 02:25 PM
The first computer I bought way back in '86 or so was an Amiga....
it had color!!...had lots of fun with it....
;-)
Posted by: ArchiMark | January 21, 2008 at 09:55 PM
Fair Warning: If anyone ports MAEMO over, I'm gonna start the hurting of peoples...
Posted by: Mike Cane | January 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM
So how about some feedback on how you like XP on the eee? It's been about a month or so and I'm interested in stability, performance, etc.
i just installed XP on my eee and it's surprisingly fast. I killed the swap but am using a 1G hibernation file. The main reason to install was for the ability to hibernate and somewhat a see how it works.
I did a full install from a purchased license and have about 1.5G free (including the hibernate file)
One very impressive part is that I can work on the eee from my Mac with remote desktop. that helps a lot when getting the initial stuff setup.
Posted by: bobm | January 22, 2008 at 01:31 PM