Here are some pictures of the pre-production Mini-ITX AmigaOne in action running Debian and of Jürgen Schober’s AmigaOS4 presentation at last weekend’s OASE show. Eyetech’s AmigaOne updates as published by Total Amiga Magazine will now also be made available quarterly at the AmigaWorld.net portal. Q&A session 22 with Amiga’s CTO is now also available.
Looks cool, runs Linux [Debian no doubt] what’s not to like. Perhaps a G4 or G5 [head in clouds] from IBM? If only they could see this. Then Linux would be “IBM Compatible!” companies can’t go wrong.
Actually, anybody know how the power consumption is compared to pentium 3, Pentium M, and VIA C3? The PPC chips usually do quite well and still run cool! For embedded boxes [routers, media centers, giant killer robots] these could be great….if the price is right.
Actually, the PegXLin Linux distribution, availible for the Pegasos motherboard, is IBM Compatible. You can check it out here:
http://www.developer.ibm.com/solutions/isv/igssg.nsf/list/bycompany…
any pentuim eats power and the very hot, the via c3’s can run fanless
Further to Nate’s comments, we do have comparisons for the power consumption and performance of some variations of Pentiums/Athlons/Celerons, to the G3 and G4, on the Pegasos website.
http://www.pegasosppc.com/processor.php
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How long is this going to go on?. All the talk and screenshots in the world aren’t going to do anything for the Amiga.
Finalize and release a product!
BTW, this Mini-ITX board was using a 1066MHz G4 CPU and as you can see the housing was quite large compared to the box despite it was only a Flex-ATX (much smaller than Micro-ATX) case.
To get an idea of how small an Mini-ITX case can be and all kinds of other cool stuff you can do with a Mini-ITX form factor board turn to:
http://www.mini-itx.com
@ fbrathwaite
> How long is this going to go on?
And this will continue to go on for as long as it takes to release a quality product!
There were once plans for a different kind of AmigaOS4 to be released earlier, but those plans were scrapped (or better said, the project was greatly extended) because the AmigaOS4 team decided this would not have been a quality solution.
But as you can see at the various shows AmigaOS4 is very real and the development train moves at a immense pace. Probably needless to say G3/G4 powered AmigaOne boards are already available.
Actually, the PegXLin Linux distribution, availible for the Pegasos motherboard, is IBM Compatible
huh ?
since when is linux IBM compatible ?
I thought it should be compatible to, hm. lets say
LSB 1.3 or later 8if avaiable) , Debian, gentoo, or ?
Gentoo and debian, btw, also avaible for the pegaos….
cheers,
frank
A hint: If you compare your G4 to a Cray-1 the difference will be even tastier _and_ the Cray is(was) a super-computer (just like the G4, right?).
Cray-1 160MFLOPS, 115kW
Seriously the comparisions are worthless when one of the processors is intended for embedded systems and the other for desktops. Where are the mobile AthlonXP, the Pentium4M, the Pentium M…
The genesi workforce [nate/neko] often make funny statements. better not pay too much attention when they fool around. 😉
This was in Graz and I missed it? I *live* in Graz! Granted I’m not an amiga nut, but I would have gone, had I known… Oh well, I suppose it’s just as well I would have wanted to buy one.
Look at the link and it explains everything. This was in responce to an earlier statement talking about the “IBM Compatible!” badge, which at least one Linux distribution for the PowerPC already carries. I was simply correcting him on that.
Linux has been IBM Compatible for quite awhile now. While the PowerPC port did not occur as quickly as, say, the Alpha port, it did occur and runs very nicely on PowerPC hardware.
Many companies stay away from non-wintel solutions because they aren’t “IBM Compatible” even though that doesn’t mean squat anymore …and IBM doesn’t even make “IBM compatibles” only resells other people’s stuff.
You could Market these cute little boxes running Linux as “IBM compatible” too! The processor and most of the chipsets are made by IBM…get the joke… That’s how you have to think if you want the corperate types [who by by the dozen!] to look at this as a viable tool. And it would just be cute for IBM to jump back into the desktop fray by lending its name to a PPC box running Linux!
>This was in Graz and I missed it? I *live* in Graz! Granted
>I’m not an amiga nut, but I would have gone,
>had I known… Oh well, I suppose it’s just as well I would
>have wanted to buy one.
Well, it’s not available for release yet, and the final product will have some more features (e.g. USB2, Firewire, IDE Raid Controller and CardSlot, and Gigbit Ethernet). It should be available by beginning 2004. And we will still sell them – even in Graz
XEs are currently available (ATX G3/G4 boards)…so…
cheers
Jürgen