Hello,

Today I got a UPS tracking number for my Pegasos 2 It left Las Vegas 12 hours ago, arrived in Ontario, California 10 hours ago, and left for destinations unknown 7 hours ago! Where will it go next... I'll keep you updated! Actually, my estimation is that with at least 7 hours flying its either just landed in an east coast US city and is in transit at the airport, or its over the Atlantic now.

Anyway, in the meantime - I also received a Pegasos 2 serial number, can I use this to join any secret mailing lists or anything?

Ta, smithy

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Sure! You can know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, too!

>Where will it go next...

...maybe to the secret ancient city of Atlant..a

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Sorry to disappoint you, but it's only at Louisville, Kentucky! It took 7 hours to do that trip so my theory is it went by road. It's been sitting in Louisville for 4 hours now... looks like it's going to be a long way to London!

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP on 2011/3/12 1:42 ]

Hi Daniel,

It is actually a looooong story. A few Pegasos machines were sent to either the wrong destinations or were not sent at all. Smithy's Pegasos went in the big package to the Genesi-USA and it wasn't until Smithy said, eeep!, that we understood why the box checked in reality was not...

We are going to try something new with the February shipments and see if this works better.

Growing pains.

R&B

Well it's all been happening! My Pegasos 2 arrived in Philadelphia, and departed shortly after - surely London is the next stop?!

It's arrived in Derby, UK! Surely just a 4-hour trip up the A1 now?

I think my Pegasos 2 is the most travelled of all Pegasos 2s... it must have clocked up about 15,000 miles now! I'll assume the record if nobody has any counter claims

Well, I think it is record if it comes to the travell length, but I tell you - you ar lucky if it comes to time. Two or three days is nothing comparing to my Pegasos which travelled from Rotterdam to Torun, Poland (something like 1600 km) for three weeks. Well - actually it travelled just some three or four days and then laied on customs because UPS's guys (live long the best courier company in the world) were so incompetent and lazy that it took almost three days to just clarify what should I deliver to them to get the package cleared.

Lucky for me - all my troubles all gone now and I'm really happy with my new Linux workstation (Ok. I did installed MorphOS yesterday, but I don't find it very appealing. Maybe because I never used Amiga before and I find it veeery disturbing not having any beginner (and I mean absolute beginner) docs for it).

M.

Hehe.. I installed Suse Linux(x86) couple of days ago to test the allmighty Linux and boy am I still lost with it :) Most of the time Im so confused where should I install this and that and where should I compile programs...aaargh! Soon I'll get that vacuum from closet and clean all the f***ing tarballs off my HD

In amiga and morphos(And maybe even Windows too ) I allways know where all the programs are and where to configure them. In linux Im often tempted to copy all to /dev/null/ and forget the whole OS

So its not so easy for people who used Amigas and Windozes to start using Linux from scratch..

I don't want to start the flame, but...
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...maybe you just should read a bit before installing/removing Linux? Or maybe use some other distro - I don't know SuSE.

I do understand that configuration of some stuff could be a little confusing at the beginning, but most packages (and I mean packages installed by proper distro - with programs compiled from tarballs you sometimes have to dig for a moment) install it's docs in one consistent place. It's really easy to browse it, read man and do the configuration.

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Sure. But in Linux you at least have a chance that installing packet from your distro some documentation will be installed. And if you need to find something for the beginner google will give you a lot of hints. Maybe I'm just too dumb (which - to be honest - might be the case together with my laziness), but I can't find any such things for MorphOS.

Prove me wrong, and I will read the documentation and I really will give it a try - I quite like what I saw, especially Birdie Shot

M.

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And throw away hours of ftp-installing? NO WAY! Besides, its not the Suse's fault that *NIX filesystem and multiuser-behaviour confuses linux-n00b like me.

Suse has Yast package manager which is nice.. But with all the distros using different mechanisms to install software and all software dont have .rpm's that yast uses. And many programs that I fancy, deliver only sources(I realised that GCC and make must be installed if you want to be serious using linux).

Then theres the circle of hell when installing some software that uses lib A and when you are installing lib A, that needs lib B and so on... Phew! And when Yast tells you need 12357.234-qwertyuiop.lib its so nice to hunt that from the web

Dont get me wrong, linux distros have become so much better(user friendly) in the past years. Installing linux isnt the problem anymore, its the level of complexity of the OS itself thats scaring people to switch from windows for example. Other problem lies in the number of different distros. Which one to choose from that suites best for your needs?

Well I have my Pegasos 2 now. And Customs & Excise have made a hefty profit out of me.

Hi Smithy,

Customs in Thailand still throw a monthly party for their staff which
is financed by me.

Coder