Author: Christos (ppp62-136.adsl.forthnet.gr)
Date: 08-10-2006 11:25
What I believe I and GokMasE are saying is that the newer versions of mint are much faster than the older ones. I am sorry I never had Magic to compare it with. From what I can tell the difference in speed between older versions of mint with the most recent ones is quite big, but it should be a more demanding system than Magic. It all depends on how you setup the system. Before my hard drive failed I had managed to make my falcon running freemint+XaAES at a speed not much slower to the single TOS one. All you have to do is take the time to customise it. Find the optimal configuration between beauty and speed. And that is also true about XaAES and MyAES. IMHO the advantages offered by mint are overwhelming and that is why I have never bothered with Magic. Mint is open source and still supported where Magic has died. Also you get all those cool linux-unix pieces of software just by compiling them for mint (I know that it's not quite true but close), you can also run X-software, locally or remotely, and it's what most software developers support. The only real problem with mint is that it's memory hungry and so a 4Mb system is not really sufficient thus I had to upgrade the falcon's RAM. I hope that the freemint developers and XaAES developers will optimise the 68000 version so that it won't need as much RAM as my falcon needed.
On another note we kind of missed the original posters question. XSTEEM or STEEM will not run mint. You might have a chance with the new pasti that is for atari harddrives but I have not tried it. For running Mint on a pc ARANYM is your best choice.
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