BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore De: Andreas Kohlbach Data: Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:01 +1100 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:48:32 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote: > > Christian Jacobwrote: >> 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 --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]