Amigo Developers Team forming. You can join, too!
 

I'm very happy to announce that skruf_man, Kuroyume and Rookie_One have agreed to join the Amigo Devolopment Team!

You can join also, even if you are a new Linux user or someone who knows next to nothing about computers.

Or maybe you are pretty good with Linux and have even thought about making your own distro -I could REALLY use your help.

Amigo is not trying to 're-write the book' on Linux, and has nothing to do with my ego, except that it IS very satisfying to have your 'product' well-accepted, even when you give it away!

The project needs help in many areas and there may even be a chance to earn a few $$$, for those who make significant contributions.

The project has been noticed by some can-do people with ideas and money to help distribute Amigo directly to users in developing countries, providing a turn-key OS with software that gives them easy access to on-line services such as e-learning, money transfer, technical certification, cheap voice-over-web communication and others.

I'll post a list on the Amigo WIKI of specific areas that interested persons can look at to see if they can be of help.
(Link will go here:)

Anyone interested can contact me at amigo@ibiblio.org.

I would say that anyone who wants to join a project and "give something back"(tm):) should at least look into this. How often does a distro specifically ask for help like this?

Gnashley - I hope you get enough interest to make this worthwhile. Good luck.

I'll definitely join this team. I am not much of a developer, but I guess I can give something back to the Linux community by helping out where I can. Anyway I got a few hours to spare every week, so that spare time can be invested wisely instead of going out for beer and chips ;)

Shields up, weapons online, creaw aboard! Awaiting orders! :D

Just tell me what to do... ;)

Amigo Devolpers Team forming. You can join, too!
 

DistroWatch calls Amigo a "Windows-based Linux distribution" (full quote below).
It is mainstream enough to have its own LQ forum here, but yet is not listed as a mainstream distro for DistroWatch ??

In any case, would like to join team as an install/maintenance tester for lower-end HW.
Not as a Developer/"Devolper" as I just do not have the background or resources (read: time) for this more extensive task. Also, I myself would definitely
keep AmigoXP or newer distro's separate from Windows XP OS, even on currently high-end Athlon XP CPU's :D

BTW, for anyone following this thread, the LQ Amigo Development Team wiki is here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Amigo_Developers


Here is DistroWatch's Amigo Linux piece from
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=links#win :

It's great that you want to chip in!

Yeah, distro watch refuses to list any mini-distro or distro that Is 'windows-based' on its' main page. I scolded the guy a little when I listed the distro, but didn't expect him to change his mind.
Maybe you could work on compiling a list of distro-listing and submit-your-distro sites and work on a 'blurb' or two for submission. This is one of the things that needs to be done, as well as the same, but computer magazines.
Did I ever mention that Amigo was distributed in a magazine CD in India?

AmigoXP runs just fine on the same partition as Windows XP or W2K. It doesn't even try to go near the MBR, so no problem. I haven't had any problems with 'dirty volumes'
AmigoXP is QUITE distinct from Amigo-2.0, and much of what has been said about Amigo, in the blurbs and documentation, will not always be so.

I always wanted to offer EACH version of Amigo in more than one format -I mean not just in .zip format and not just for umsdos. $$$,time... you know the story.

Thanks again for joining up -that makes 6 of you so far, and one mentor-type who's been watching Amigo for awhile and gives a moral lift sometimes.

s_deepak_123 has also agreed to 'join up'. He's been an Amigo user since about August.
He said something nice in an e-mail to me:
'Some of my friends have started their journey with linux from Amigo!'

Deepak is a computer science student who has already done some interesting things with Amigo that may be incorporated soon.