[Coco] OT: Linux

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Look I am not trying to start a flame war or troll, but we are talking about an 8 bit machine that needs to run Basic and to a lesser extent OS 9 , I fail to see how any form of Linux would be beneficial to anyone that has no clue with OS 9. But you look at any forum or list and eventually someone mentions that even his toilet should run Linux. 
It took a huge corporation like Google to make it a standard to run for the masses on tablets and phones - hidden. But it just boils my blood for these guys to jump in and always tote it as the be all answer to every thing, when they can't even agree on which distro to run. 
Just my 2 cents
All I would want in a "new" coco would be the floppy controller on board (or an sd card) and the ability to hook it up to a VGA monitor - no enhancements just a " scan doubler"  
The problem is any solution would be more expensive to produce than buying real hardware. Let's face it, the coco hardware even today is cheap and still easily available. 
The Amiga stuff in comparison, is skyrocketing in price, but they still have a few hardware venders making things like scan doublers for them and sd card adapters.  

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