From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Feb 1 09:01:37 2010 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:56:38 +0200 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1622629327.20100201155638@hol.gr> To: Jo Even Skarstein CC: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] mono In-Reply-To: <4B65FC7E.6090600@online.no> References: <11a6f2b11001270642j41b73ecepfd4a7a7cbb3fb354@mail.gmail.com> <11a6f2b11001302144r453c353xdb21efddf53b2ee4@mail.gmail.com> <231FB8B6-8A4A-4EE1-A09B-33C8D77817DC@seznam.cz> <4B65FC7E.6090600@online.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10347/Mon Feb 1 03:30:35 2010 on takeit01.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o11E1arW012153 Hello Jo, Sunday, January 31, 2010, 11:56:14 PM, you wrote: > Sounds like the perfect way of getting rid of me ;-) I would stop > working on Ataris if something like this happened. I'm already using > Linux, I don't need to run the same software on my Ataris. It would also > exclude everyone using legacy hardware, as no real Atari is powerful > enough to run NetBSD at a decent speed. > We got to think about where we're headed. Is the ultimate goal of > FreeMiNT that it should mimic unix as closely as possible? I'm not very > interested in unix stuff, I just want to create and use GEM-applications > in a stable, multitasking environment. I'd rather see time and effort > spent on the GEM-part than being able to run the same programs as I use > on my Linux-box (but slower). > Jo Even +1 from me. Porting mono apps (or X11/Gnome/KDE, etc) and modifying MiNT just because future (or imaginary) hardware _might_ run them, seems totally academic to me. If such a thing happens, my choice would be to stick to older stuff. If some people want to follow that route, I'd suggest they create a fork. -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr