Just wanted to give a little progress report.
Amigo-XP is just about ready. It's hard to decide when to stop adding improvements! And I still need to work on the docs and webpage.

Anyway, Amigo-XP features an automated installation under any Windows NT-based system (NT/2000/XP/Server2003/Longhorn) and can also be booted from a win98 installation. (Floppy-boot isn't done yet)

The installation is multi-lingual, with just English, Spanish and German so far. If any wants to translate about two pages of simple prompts into some other language, it will be much appreciated.
Before installing, the prompting language can be set under windows. The, both the windows installer and the Amigo hardware setup routines will use that language.

Hardware setup has been streamlined and improved, and firstboot leads to a GUI login, which can then be made the deafult.
I've written a couple of Apps for the ROX desktop which manage shutdown, APM and also will let you 'reset' your configuration so that Amigo runs 'Live' the next time -just like when it first installs.

The base installation needs nearly 1GB of space -more if you add swap or optional software.
The main desktop is based on the ROX-Filer, whether you run fluxbox, windowmaker, or XFCE. It includes numerous AppDir's, and an additional 150MB of AppDirs are available as an option if you have space.

If you want KDE you can have it EASY! Just unzip an extra file under windows before booting Amigo-XP. It contains a fairly complete KDE installation, including the CD burner K3B. This will all be installed and configured automatically.

Amigo-XP supports RAID, SATA and FireWire and USB drives, IRDA, Video, telephony... the list of porgrams is long -I'll come back with that...

Hey, this is great!!

Have several 32-bit Windows systems to test this out.
Although it is not necessary with modern LILO and GRUB versions, I set up (as many now do when planning multi-OS booting) small primary partitions onto hda1 below the infamous 1024-cylinder BIOS limits, for placing eventual native LILO/GRUB Linux loaders. 32-bit Windows OS's are installed onto hda2 as "active C:\ drives", and they control MBR, with logical partitions hda5+ (and hdb5+) as D:\, E:\, ... etc.

Couple of questions:

1. What boot-loader is AmigoXP using from these 32-bit Windows's ?
Is the boot-loader LILO (similar to Amigo2.0) or is it GRUB ?

2. How compatible is AmigoXP with Slackware 10.1 utilities, packages, and package management facilities ?
One of Vector Linux's versions (SOHO v5) is now also based upon Slackware 10.1 and uses LAPT. It is noted in another post that Zipslack 10 is now also available.

3. How would you and others more accurately compare and contrast AmigoXP with Slackware 10.1 and its derivative distros ??

TYIA for this revelation.

-nycace36

Might we assume this will have multimedia?

Amigo-XP is still 100% compatible with slack 10 -10.1.
Amigo-XP uses windows NTLDR to load GRUB -which makes for a nice safe boot -no writes to MBR at all!
I really need to get thios released -it's as ready as can be. There's nothing 'buggy', just incomplete or needing a decision.

Amigo-XP includes xmms and mplayer, audacity if you want it, grip, xcdroast, gtoaster and more of that sort. Or use whatever is in KDE, which is available as an easy optional installation for Amigo-XP.

Amigo-XP doesn't use really 'drastic measures'. Just as with earlier Amigo's, it can even be upgraded. As long as you leave the original scripts in /etc/rc.d, you should never have any problems.

SWEET!!

That was the only thing I was missing in 2.0!

Cant wait to give it a whirl!
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