What will happen from this is tons of sites constantly going down for expired certs. Very insecure and easily hacked renewal scripting that will fail and bring down sites. Or site just going back to http forcing browsers to resupport it. I support a number of sites with certs and it's already a PITA for the yearly renewals.
They keep using that word, I don't think it means what they think it means.
Just remember records only go back about 150 years. The Earth is 4 billion years old.
These are the scientists that are teaching skynet that morals don't matter.
Why is this news? This isn't about a new or particularly notable release. From the summary: "The latest & greatest version was released in 2020."
The latest version is actually from earlier this month.
Software News : AmiKit XE updated on all platforms! Posted by AmiKit on 2022/5/23:
https://www.amigans.net/module...
It wasn't until Windows 95 a few years later where PC really started to shine.
For more famous Amiga uses, look here:
https://www.amigareport.com/ar...
Yes, ID Software once claimed in an interview Doom couldn't be done on the Amiga. It got ported in days on Amigas older than PCs are able to run Doom after the source code got released. On most unexpanded PCs Doom ran also pretty terrible.
Doom running on an A1200 (AGA) / 68030 / 50 Mhz compared to an AMD 386 DX 40 MHZ with Tseng Labs ET4000 Isa video Card (very similar in performance, so ID Software was wrong):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Quake was even ported to 68k/AGA. With PowerPC and RTG upgrade cards Quake runs well on classic Amigas. The first versions of AmigaOS4 were also being developed using the Amiga 4000 expanded with PPC upgrade cards!
Amiga 4000 750FX PPC 1GHz! Quake 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now with AmigaOS4.x and the AmigaOne x5000, Hughes Nouvel aka HunoPPC, is porting Doom 3 as well:
https://www.amigans.net/module...
Not fiction, but here's an interesting read:
Commodore The Inside Story: The Untold Tale of a Computer Giant:
https://www.amazon.com/Commodo...
You don't need Linux PowerPC to setup a FTP server.
You can do this as well with AmigaOS4 and ZitaFTP Server (also available for Windows):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Dear customers,
It was the year 2007 when we introduced our first “baby”, the Sam440ep. Fifteen years ago. We designed and produced the Sam440ep, a lovely mini-itx motherboard that many enjoyed running AmigaOS 4, AROS and Linux.
At that time we, a bunch of mad amigans, resolved to do our best to bring this hardware to life for all the Amiga Community because it was in dire need of a new computer platform to run AmigaOS.
Without the Sam440ep, the future of AmigaOS would have been very difficult.
After all these years, just as the latest batch of Sam460LE is being produced, we choose to release the electrical schematics of the Sam440ep to the community.
We hope many of you will be happy to see one of the first image of our first project.
The ACube Systems team
Sam440ep schematics"
Most AmigaOS4 / AmigaOne owners dual boot into Linux PPC as well. Most seem to be programmers and technically educated people. Some even triple boot into MorphOS:
Public Release of MorphOS 3.17
"X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI."
https://morph.zone/modules/new...
For mainstream usage, here's an opinion from a hardcore AmigaOS4 user:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most are using AmigaOS4 as a hobby and own PCs next to their systems.
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.
