Re: Hi!

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On 30 Oct 1999, Dave Flint wrote:

> As you may see from my sig. I am presently using an Amiga A3000
> ( much modified ) but since the Gateway disaster I like many Amiga users am
> looking for a way ahead.

You'll find a number of amigans in the linux world. I personally have a
A1200/060 w/Lightwave, but have basically dumped the Amiga format. I
couldn't afford the software, so I was stuck with ancient pre-AGA stuff
(AMOS, etc.). Shame. . . .

> I live just down the road near the funny spire, I am 53 and run my own
> very small one man business. I am possibly going to invest in a K7 Athlon box
> at Xmas or there abouts, if Linux continues to impress me as I find out more.

Athlon? You lucky fellow. . . that'll just about run linux I reckon ;)))

> OK now I am going to shut-up and lurk in the background to get the
> feeling of the Linux community ( and not make a fool of myself ) you may find
> a lot of X- Amiga users coming in your direction, as in the last week there
> has been a lot of EMails on Amiga lists about Linux and 86k boxes

Amiga were planning on using linux at one point too, I heard. . . linux is
nice, because in many ways it's like AmigaOS, although having used AOS
from KS1.3->3.1 and all the WBs inbetween, I find linux infinitely
preferable.

> ps. I have been a beta tester for an Amiga art/image program called
> Photogenics since it started, and now the programmer has just ported it to
> Linux

Very nice app. I like the way it was ported too - the abstraction layer it
runs over seems to be fairly generic, nice way of doing things. It'll be
interesting to see how it fairs against GIMP, etc.

Welcome to our little group Dave ;))

Regards,

Alex.

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