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(11Mb) English Translation: {0000}{0150}Penguen'in Gunlugu March 22nd 2004
{0200}{0350}And our next guest is Sinan Gurkan.
{0300}{0450}He is one of the well known Amiga supporters in Turkey.
{0650}{0750}- First of all. Welcome to our show Sinan.
{0750}{0850}- Thank you very much.
{0900}{1000}- Can you please tell us about your Amiga background ?
{1000}{1100}- I have been one of the editors of Amiga web sites Amigart.com and Amiga.gen.tr since 1997.
{1100}{1300}- Also I have been one of the official beta-testers of Amiga Operating Systems since late 1998.
{1400}{1500}- Can you please give us more information about beta-testing ?
{1500}{1700}- Briefly, Our task is to find the bugs and
{1500}{1800}report them to developers before it is shipped to end-users.
{1800}{1950}- As far as I can see Amiga world is very active. There are new exciting developments.
{1950}{2150}- Is Amiga re-entering the market ?
{2150}{2250}- Yes, with the new AmigaOne hardware platform, Amiga is resurrecting itself
{2250}{2350}as a new PowerPC based computing platform.
{2350}{2650}- AmigaOS was a 68k based OS. Now it is ported to PowerPC.
{2650}{2850}- And there are also AmigaOS ports of some well known Linux software
{2850}{2950}- Can you give some examples ?
{2950}{3150}- For example, there are ports of Apache, Samba for AmigaOS.
{3150}{3450}GNU GCC 2.95 and GCC 3.4 is used for creating AmigaOS native executables.
{3450}{3650}And it is also possible to create AmigaOS executables with Linux GCC compilers.
{3650}{3850}Although new AmigaOS kernel isn't open source, it shares many standards with Linux.
{3850}{4150}The new PowerPC Based Amiga motherboard 'AmigaOne' was tested by running Linux on it.
{4150}{4450}- I saw that new AmigaOS software is downloadable from Amiga websites.
{4450}{4850}Is there a Linux like community in Amiga world and which software is developed in a Linux-like manner ?
{4850}{5150}- Yes,one of the latest projects is AMozilla. The port of Mozilla web browser to AmigaOS.
{5150}{5350}And there are lots of other projects. But it wouldn't be possible to list them all in this limited time.
{5350}{5550}You can download some of the latest AmigaOS software from Aminet web site.
{5550}{5750}For years, Amiga passed through the troubled times with the help of its users.
{5750}{5850}- And my final question, what's Amiga's target audience ?
{5850}{6050}- Currently, Amiga's primary target audience is home users and entertainment. {6050}{6350}With the ongoing and planned developments we expect Amiga to be a player in other areas as well.
{6350}{6550}- Thank you Sinan. We are proud of your efforts in Amiga community and expect more from you in the future.
{6550}{6750}- Thanks.
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