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   Message 299 of 2,243   
   Rene Laederach to DENNIS SMITH   
   Re: What's with AmigaOne   
   25 May 03 21:20:58   
   
   Hi dennis!   
      
   DENNIS SMITH wrote to ALL:   
      
   DS> "woody." I bootup into to a Debian Login/Shutdown requester screen.   
   DS> I login as 'root' dir and enter the password. Debian will boot the   
   DS> KDE desktop. Vola! Your in KDE world. There are three icons on the   
   DS> screen: Trashcan, Debian, and Home. Home opens the desktop and UAE   
   DS> window.   
      
   So it's pretty much standard. In other words - we'll have to port a   
   lot of goodies to get everything working as expected.   
      
   DS>   From here it's my choice to do Linux things, like play with Python   
   DS> from a shell, or run 'Wierd Science', I'm sorry -- UAE, and emulate   
   DS> an Amiga. Wierd -- emulate an Amiga on an Amiga -- science! The UAE   
      
   If you want to emulate a classic environment, there's not a whole lot   
   of ways you will be able to do it.   
      
   DS> runs real nice. So, I wanted to see what KDE's "KPaint" looked like   
   DS> -- it banged and crashed!   
      
   Losuy compile. It works. Else, use The GIMP. Even if it's free, it's   
   not bad for most of the things the average person wants to do in   
   image manipulation.   
      
      
      
       Greetings, Rene Laederach   
       email: mousse@snoop.alphanet.ch   
      
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