Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Aug 2009 17:41 UTC, submitted by David Brunet
With OSNews really diving into the world of the Amiga as of late, with a review of AmigaOS 4.1 on ACube's sam440ep and an upcoming review of MorphOS 2.3 on an Efika, it was kind of coincidental that we have a set of benchmarks comparing MorphOS 2.3 and AmigaOS 4.1 to one another, both running on the Pegasos II machine.
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2006-01-26
I'm actually a GNU/Linux user (Archlinux specifically).
I never have been an "amigan", just discovered it in late 90s and liked many things of it. It can be considered as "retro" by that time, anyway it's a platform with people obsessed in making it alive even if losing too much fuel lately.
Most that you consider it so funny is nothing more than gimmicks or toys.
What's so interesting about multitouch? It's an interesting feature for some stuff, but not much more. Same as accelerometer and camera. GPS is nice to being widespreaded, but existed long time ago.
About games on iPhone, I totally disagree with you. Most games are showelware crap, clones or selling retro again (iPhSoft uses ScummVM so they do too few programming effort rather than disabling parts of it and some minimal changes). Apple is not so good at App Store politics and the platform is not so open, unless you jailbreak it and use alternatives like Cydia. I prefer open platforms by default instead, able to install mhatever you want without DRM or other restrictions.
It's free as in beer or food, but not always as in freedom. Spotify is another server-based platform, most videochat are propietary protocols. The syncing stuff is not so transparent unless you use certain platforms, but I have my own geeky method so not care of it. About video editing, it's OK but most appss are slow as hell or quite bad.
There are good things, but most of them make you to be attached to certain platform or corporation. They are not so impressive, just lots of hype that gets forgotten when the next "cool stuff" happens.