Commodore OS
Commodore OS, Commodore OS Vision full name, was a Linux distribution that was developed by startup company Commodore USA and was intended as an operating system for the compiled from this company PCs. Commodore OS based on Debian and Linux Mint is exclusively available for x86 -64 processors and uses the Gnome desktop environment 2 The first public beta version was released November 11, 2011 ..
Commodore OS was supplied ready installed since its appearance on each of Commodore USA -selling computer or could be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Until then, Ubuntu has been used as an operating system.
Commodore USA declared Commodore OS as software in beta. Since the system is primarily focused on the components of the product sold by manufacturers retro PCs, no guarantee can be given for compatibility with other standard x86 -64 PCs, possibly because drivers are missing.
Background
The Commodore brand since 2004 has been owned by the company Yeahronimo Media Ventures, which trades today (2012 ) as a brand agency under the name of Commodore Licensing BV. In August 2010, the start -up company Commodore USA announced that they have acquired the worldwide license rights for the brands Commodore and Amiga and started in the aftermath PC systems to develop, with their names on popular computers of the 80s like the Commodore 64, the VC 20 and the Amiga remembered today and included commercially available PC components. Commodore USA has its business set apparently after the death of the company founder Barry Altman on December 8, 2012, the Internet presence is no longer available since April 2013.
Scope
Commodore OS provides in addition to the usual Linux Standard software, the emulator package VICE available so that classic software for the Commodore 64, Commodore C128, CBM -II, Commodore PET, Commodore VIC -20, Commodore Plus / 4 corresponding to the development of the various emulators can be used, the ROM of each computer models are however not provided with the distribution. Furthermore, DOSBox and VirtualBox included. An emulation of the Amiga is not possible, a suitable emulator such as UAE is not included in the distribution. Commodore USA had only purchased the naming rights to the Commodore computer models on a license basis, but refrain from doing so in the area of Intellectual Property.
Design
Commodore OS was designed to mimic the classic look and the usability of older Commodore computers and is as a kind of homage to the keyboard computers have been intended.
Criticism
There was a lot of criticism regarding the hype created by Commodore USA and the notion that they had created a " new operating system for our computers ," while one has only taken possession of an already existing Linux distribution. Criticism of CUSA came especially from Linux experts who claimed that the development time could hardly have lasted more than two weeks to write a few scripts and replace the standard Mint Graphics by their own.