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Encyclopaedia Amigaca
by samuraijack on 12/05/2003 08:43 PM
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WrongPlanet sets out to document, record and catalogue the various species and sub-species of Amiga users.

Linux Amigans (Linus Geekus Amigus)

A typical Linux Amigan
Also known as: script kiddies, ixxers, geeks
Habitat: Idling on Amiga IRC channels.
Call: "Linux isn't gay, it's just not for stupid people!"
Occurence: 1996 - Present

Self-superiority is the watchword of this species. Although their habitat is rich in resources, it is very difficult to scratch a living from. Yet somehow Linux Amigans will pretend that Linux is better than everything else.

They differ from Linus Geekus Vulgaris (common Linux users) by the fact that they still use Amigas - albeit in a small way. Perhaps it's just yearning for an OS that isn't slow, bloated and horribly difficult to use.

They can usually be found idling in Amiga IRC channels, having been there for weeks on end without saying a word. Intelligence of this species is high, but blunted by the unwieldiness of Linux. They often spend their time porting buggy, impossible to use and obscure linux software to Amiga, always without a GUI and always without any real hope of making it useful.

Many of this type can also be found among the herds of MorphOS Amigans, their closest ally species, although relations can sometimes be strained.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2003-12-08 09:36:24   By: Anonymous
 
no comments? Where are the trolls?!?! :-)


    Really Funny, Thanks!!
    Posted on: 2003-12-08 11:44:25   By: Anonymous
     
    This is really, really funny. Thanks for starting my week off with some humor!


    Re:
    Posted on: 2003-12-09 00:19:46   By: Anonymous
     
    Gotta say I love it. :) Leans intellectually toward the blue camp...but I Like it That Way. :)

    dslcc
    Peg1/256MB/Rockin' and On Schedule!


      Re: Re:
      Posted on: 2003-12-09 09:36:05   By: Anonymous
       
      I wasn't going to say this at first, but the only troll that comes close to the discription given to true amigans is actually a blue blooded one from Italy. (The problem wrting, the use of 'LOL', the use of caps etc)

      You might know her, she uses the handle EVA, and they don't come blueer then her

      Cheers


    Re: no comments? Where are the trolls?!?! :-)
    Posted on: 2004-12-06 15:19:50   By: Anonymous
     
    Not "Where are the trolls?"
    You mean : "Where are the 'True Amigans?"
    :-P


Bloodlines
Posted on: 2003-12-08 11:42:51   By: Anonymous
 
Someone should build a family tree to show the bloodlines of the species.


AmigaOneians
Posted on: 2003-12-08 14:51:08   By: Anonymous
 
What about the AmigaOne Amigans?

Those who posess the suppossed new official hardware. A motherboard that has no Kickstart, an old fashioned text bios sightly short in features of a C64 BASIC interpreter and doesn't even have an AmigaOS to run on it. Why is it called an Amiga at all? Oh yes, there's a sticker with the Amiga word embedded on it and a processor from the same company as the orginal Amiga if you buy the expensive model.

More expensive than a Pegasos, which is more expensive than an entry level modern Mac. And can only prove one point:

BIOS's rock, in the seventies, before there were no Amigas.


    Re: AmigaOneians
    Posted on: 2003-12-08 16:44:22   By: Anonymous
     
    The AmigaONE is covered under the True Amigan


Shell tools rock this world!
Posted on: 2003-12-08 17:22:06   By: Anonymous
 
I take strong offense to your snide remarks about ports without GUIs, and I will contact my lawyer (the best and most prominent in this market, Ben Hermans) so I can sue your sorry asses back into the stoneage of computers, good luck trying to write these most insulting articles using handperforated punchcards.

See you in court.


Yours sincerely,

Linux A. Migan


Hey Mr. Unbiased
Posted on: 2003-12-08 19:39:39   By: Anonymous
 
It basically looks like a fancy way for the poster to say that any current Amiga fans that aren't using MorphOS are total morons. What about us that have a preference for AmigaOS4/AmigaOne that aren't Amiga Inc. fanatics? I'm an Amiga platform fan, but pretty much consider Amiga Inc. to be irrelevant at this point, but plan to buy an AmigaOne and Hyperion's product AmigaOS4. This is partially as a business decision, as I'm in a group working on software for the Amiga platform, but MorphOS team were so uninterested in the idea of sharing their driver SDK they never responded to my emails to even say "no thanks", and thus MorphOS has no business appeal to me as part of a development team and so I'm not going to buy it or it's hardware host motherboard myself. I their users well, but I'm not one of them. The Eyetech/Hyperion platform does offer me something to develop for so that's what I'm interested in, yet this "history" of users is a bit antagonistic to those in my position and only engourages me to avoid the "blue camp", as rediculous as the whole blue/red camp concept is. I try to consider myself neutral, but things like this make me feel more comfortable in a slightly redder shade of purple, as I'm not going to be a blue fanatic and dont want to be a die-hard red fanatic either...


    Re: Hey Mr. Unbiased
    Posted on: 2003-12-08 20:07:37   By: Anonymous
     
    Noticed that all of them are highly exaggerated yet?


      Re: Hey Mr. Unbiased
      Posted on: 2003-12-09 00:05:49   By: Anonymous
       
      Yet one is strangely different from the rest.. hmmmm...


        Re: Hey Mr. Unbiased
        Posted on: 2003-12-09 12:43:09   By: Anonymous
         
        I agree. It does seem like someone is going a long way to state an opinion. And there's no group for me either, since I don't particularly like Amiga Inc...

        Ole-Egil


        Re: Hey Mr. Unbiased
        Posted on: 2003-12-09 17:01:26   By: samuraijack
         
        We were scared that if we criticised MorphOS too much we'd get angry letters from the people who actively use MorphOS as their primary operating system. All twenty of them.


    Re: Hey Mr. Unbiased
    Posted on: 2003-12-09 17:52:36   By: Anonymous
     
    I have not found my speices here, since True Amigans are extinct, I can't include myself there. So I guess I am an amigasaur (dinosaur) then.

    Also speaking of colours, I thought we were red/white checked, and going further into the past, rainbow coloured ;-)


cool
Posted on: 2003-12-09 01:10:32   By: Anonymous
 
another zinger, funny.

I guess I'm a PC Amigan, and I have to agree, you don't collect money be spending it, you collect money by getting it, and holding on to it.

for a long time.
erm. possibly forever.


    Re: cool
    Posted on: 2003-12-09 12:41:03   By: Anonymous
     
    I guess that's where I've been going wrong. I haven't been collecting money, I've been collecting computers!

    The problem with collecting money is of course that (unless you're a duck) you can't have much fun without spending them. It's not like I could take a bath in coins, however thick my skull might seem at times...

    Ole-Egil



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