BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
De:       Andreas Kohlbach
Data:     Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:01 +1100
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:48:32 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
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> Christian Jacob  wrote:
>> What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bought 
>> Commodore?
>
> The glory days of Commodore were long time in the past. I am deeply
> pessimistic about them ever coming back.

There is still a lot of retro stuff going on for the coming max 40 years
or so. Thus reviving a dormant brand seems to be a good idea if
commercial interests are NOT the reason.

> I have been using UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD for over 30 years now and
> probably nothing Commodore could offer could replace it.

Nostalgia. You of course needed to own a Commodore product back in the
day. But if you were in Atari or other manufacturers of home computers,
you probably won't care.

> Writing happily on Fedora 42 using tin newsreader...

43 was out when you wrote this. I recently upgraded my 43 installation to
44. Was actually quite painful compared to upgrade a Debian installation,
but it worked.
-- 
Andreas

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