1. what is the minimum system requirements for AmigoXP?
2. does firefox include flash and plugins that play video on internet?

Since the Amigo-XP installer is designed for Win NT systems such as WinXP and 2000 it basically assumes you have the minimum.

1. You'll want a PII for Amigo-XP. I would like to have this work on Pentium I machines, but the other day I tried on one of mine and it wasn't working -may have been a only loadlin problem.

2. No special RAM requirements -should run with as little as 16-32MB !
Of course you'll want more than that for 'comfortable' use. 64-128MB should be fine unless you are using the games or doing graphics editing, etc.

With 128MB of RAM your swap space(if any) will hardly ever be used.

On my PII 333MHz I can detect no performance gains by using more than 256MB of RAM for ordinary tasks.

3. You'll need at least 985MB free space for the basic installation. Add 200MB to that for the extra progs (and space) with the 'local' option and/or 300MB for the KDE option.

Amigo-XP is forward-looking -I'm more concerned with compatiblility with modern hardware and protocols -USB, FireWire, SATA, WLAN, Bluetooth, RAID/LVM ...stuff like that. Some of this is in there and still untested.

In theory, Amigo-XP is capable of using the 2.6 kernel series. I have not worked on this yet -I prefer to start work with 2.6 when it matures a bit more. But if somebody wanted to play around...

My current work towards the next Amigo again concentrates on a smaller, less hardware-hungry installation as a base(all GTK+-1.2). Then, if you want the 'prettier' and more functional, but larger and slower stuff like GTK+2 and Python, KDE, etc -you just add it as an option. Some of what I'm doing here will probably be instituted in a future Amigo-XP release.

As for the plugins -the MacroMedia FLASH player and/or plugins cannot be distributed by anyone at all -you have to get them straight from MacroMedia. There are other programs like this also -that have very restrictive distribution policies. What I want to do is write little 'recipes' that will download and install these for you -as much as possible in the background.

In fact I started on a couple of these (as AppDirs) -for the Skype internet phone application and the stand-alone Flash Player and the Flash plugins. There is one included in Amigo-XP for RealPlayer -not fully automated, but it tells you how and where to place the RealPlayer binary and includes an uninstaller.