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From the FAQ: "10. What is Commodore OS? Our new Commodore operating system, will be a unique Commodore and AMIGA centric Linux distribution, that will grow o

From the FAQ: "10. What is Commodore OS? Our new Commodore operating system, will be a unique Commodore and AMIGA centric Linux distribution, that will grow over time into something far greater. Commodore OS will not be your run of the mill Linux distribution." http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_FAQ.aspx#Q10 http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_FAQ.aspx#Q10 Judging from the website's fondness for the long deprecated bgcolor tag and animated GIF's, my confidence them producing such an OS is not particularly high at this moment.

kwantam 16y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Are you claiming that unless one is well versed in css and html5, one is incapable of creating a decent linux distribution? debian.org gives the lie to such a notion, methinks. I suppose you might counter that the good old Amiga was a feast of multimedia technologies, and that somehow the modern equivalent is a pretty web page. Again, I'll disagree with you; creating a media-centric OS is a pretty far cry from making a pretty web page. Heck, a slick-looking commodoreusa.net page might turn off potential customers who'd otherwise be drawn in by the nostalgia stirred by the "ancient" look and feel. That was certainly my reaction.
- defroost 16y ago
  Debian? debian.org is a million times more modern, with RSS feeds, translations in around 30 languages, decent looking markup, etc. I was just making an observation about the 90's style source code, and said nothing about slickness, or prettiness. This seems a bit of an oddity for a tech company, since one would have to search for hours to find anything similar in 2011. Of course, writing an quality operating system and coding a simple website are nowhere near the same level of difficulty.
hvs 16y ago
I'm not saying that they are going to create a great OS, but those that know web design and those that build operating systems are often a disjoint set.
chipsy 16y ago
If it looks correct and doesn't cause a gaping maintenance problem, I wouldn't knock it. It's a promotional site, not a web app.
rbanffy 16y ago
Be fair. It's rather easy to roll out a Debian-derived distro that's Commodore and Amiga-centric by changing defaults. There are themes, icon sets and emulators already packaged that makes this more or less a click-some-checkboxes job.

kwantam 16y ago

I'm not sure I follow. Are you claiming that unless one is well versed in css and html5, one is incapable of creating a decent linux distribution? debian.org gives the lie to such a notion, methinks. I suppose you might counter that the good old Amiga was a feast of multimedia technologies, and that somehow the modern equivalent is a pretty web page. Again, I'll disagree with you; creating a media-centric OS is a pretty far cry from making a pretty web page. Heck, a slick-looking commodoreusa.net page might turn off potential customers who'd otherwise be drawn in by the nostalgia stirred by the "ancient" look and feel. That was certainly my reaction.

defroost 16y ago
Debian? debian.org is a million times more modern, with RSS feeds, translations in around 30 languages, decent looking markup, etc. I was just making an observation about the 90's style source code, and said nothing about slickness, or prettiness. This seems a bit of an oddity for a tech company, since one would have to search for hours to find anything similar in 2011. Of course, writing an quality operating system and coding a simple website are nowhere near the same level of difficulty.

hvs 16y ago

I'm not saying that they are going to create a great OS, but those that know web design and those that build operating systems are often a disjoint set.

chipsy 16y ago

If it looks correct and doesn't cause a gaping maintenance problem, I wouldn't knock it. It's a promotional site, not a web app.

rbanffy 16y ago

Be fair. It's rather easy to roll out a Debian-derived distro that's Commodore and Amiga-centric by changing defaults. There are themes, icon sets and emulators already packaged that makes this more or less a click-some-checkboxes job.