You've got Ubuntu the Gnome flavour, Kubuntu the KDE flavour, Xubuntu with XFCE and now Lubuntu with LXDE.
To make your Ubuntu PCs different, just design your own desktop environment, inventing 'C=Ubuntu' in the process. Or if that's beyond CommodoreUSA's resources at present, re-brand and restyle one of the existing ones, with an eye towards doing your own desktop environment later.
Whatever, but you're far less likely to get suck in court doing that than you would be trying to brand AROS as Workbench. I don't know the details, but it seems to me that the Workbench trademark in the context of desktop environments is inextricably linked to AmigaOS and would provoke precisely the kind of legal shenanigans you'd prefer to avoid.
What I'm not that pleased about is that AROS exept for the native version is very much faster and better running hosted under Linux than any virtual mashine alternative. That could be possible to changed though. I guess a virtual mashine could take advantage of the several cores that goes with most hardware these days.
Whatever it will be, this is the way to go.
I would also consider what I suggested about leaving a little unformated space on the HDD, for people who like to install Native. That would of cause be on the users own risk. But it should not be any risk at all, done the right way. c-usa does not have to say that the unfomated space on the HDD is for AROS, cause many will not use it for that. Lets say the computer come with 1TB HDD. Leave 100GB unfomated. c-usa could just say it is 100GB unformated space on the HDD, if people like to install OS alternative or another partition.
Last edited by nikosidis on 07-Sep-2010 at 03:57 PM.
We've all been talking about Anubis for so long...and its Linux underpinnings. Perhaps the answer is obvious..and we can do something in a similar vein.. possibly out of necessity because of these legal shenanigans. I don't know. We are thinking of creating our own distinctive Linux distro for the PC64 anyway. Perhaps called "Commodore OS". Not sure we can get away with "Workbench". Something a little different but hopefully cool. Maybe something E17 based. If the User wants they can then trigger the auto download and setup of AROS in a virtual machine. (...) Perhaps we can do some sort of coherence mode....similar to how Windows runs in MacOSX, that melds the two UI's together. (...)
what's that ? a C=USA business plan ? you work there or you're assembling a fairy tale ? "we are thinking of creating" ? how does it relate to C=USA site, quoting : "A new, simplified operating system for young children and older folks" = Comodo OS ? are there any devs in C=USA ? sorry mate, looks like an amateur job. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe you should think how you gonna put a fully functional PC into C64 case and more important - how you gonna bring the Amiga+cd-fantasy render to life or maybe it's gonna be maybe sth else maybe based on maybe other design ? at least Comodo OS gonna have icons
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