[Coco] OT: Linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 12 February 2014 23:46:51 Glen VanDenBiggelaar did opine:

> 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.

Ahh, Contrair Glenn. The basic framework of os9 in very like linux, and 
vice versa.  The fact that we can do such and such on linux, makes me want 
to do it on os9 too.  And occasionally I do if only to prove it can be 
done.

> 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

You give Google way too much credit.  Linux usage travels by word of mouth, 
from one server room to the next, occasionally stopping off at someones 
house, like mine for a couple decades.  Google might be 10% of that, maybe 
40% if every machine in their multiple search farms is running linux, 
purely because they burn megawatts doing it. The "average user" only 
becomes one after playing with it for a couple months before he realizes 
its easier to do on linux that windows.

> 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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