Linux by here, Linux by there, everybody speaks some from the last of lamers to
the first of gurus, all disconcerted platforms, the penguin is everywhere and
concern our Ataris therefore directly. Is it necessary then yes or no to darken
fallen head in the installation of the last fashionable OS on our machines or to
think one instant about his/her/its real interest ?
If he/it is true that on PeeCee the passage to Linux is indispensable for pretty
much to make profitable and to be a minimum satisfies his/her/its purchase, I
don't think that the thing it either necessarily on Atari. And if I take the
liberty to rather give a point of view pragmatic, it is because I turned under
Linux PC long before that he/it becomes an effect of fashion...
Indeed Linux, well that being par excellence THE SYSTEM OF EXPLOITATION, remain
all the same gluttonous enough in resources, I mean that if you want it turns at
decent speed, you will need a falcon with centurbo and 32 MB of memory as
minimum configuration. And he/it would be a pity that under the pretext to have
the last fashionable system, the Atari starts playing the game of the PC, that
is to say the technological overbid...
Besides, some major constraints rebuff me a little as for Linux on Atari : the
TOS incompatibility whereas under PC dosemu and wine permit to launch a good
packet of applications DOS and Window$, Linux 68K doesn't integrate any emulator
permitting to make turn some TOS soft, let's not speak even of the GEM...
Without forgetting the obligation for the installation of Linux 68K to create a
specific partition, whereas Linux i386 integrates versions installables on a
partition DOS (the UMSDOS). What can be troublesome in the case or the user
wants to test Linux rightly on his/her/its Atari, " to see how it makes ".
It says, Linux 68k present many advantages notably the possibility to arrange
the whole of the software park foreseen merely for Linux i86 in recompiling
them... Besides the technical and convenient aspect of Linux, it is necessary to
also think about the political aspect : Linux as becoming implanted on numerous
platformes finally created some concrete ties between them, two exits are then
possible : either one leads to a system where all the plateformes are equal the
some to others, the Atari would have as much weight that a PC then, either one
leads to an unique thought system, with an unique philosophy, : only one OS for
all, the same applications for all. At that moment, I see more even the interest
to use an Atari, as much to use a PC : well yes since it is the same thing that
it is Linux 68K or for i386 one sees the difference more. But one is able then
as well to imagine a server WEB (with Apache) working on a Falcon, the debate
could last of hours.
To say Linux truly opens numerous doors, and it is each to judge the interest of
his/her/its installation on his/her/its machine, according to his/her/its needs.
It would not especially be necessary that Linux becomes an obligated passage for
those that are already alternative, it must be maturely a choice reflexive but
on no account a brutal transition to make similar that the neighbor...
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