{"id":151,"date":"2016-02-28T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:41:18","slug":"black-phoenix-the-ql-reborn-from-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/black-phoenix-the-ql-reborn-from-the-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Phoenix \u2013 the QL reborn from the ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SCREEN03-P.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SCREEN03-P-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SCREEN03-P\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The need for a new approach.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The QL community has always been rigid, leathery, disinclined to unbend. No matter if Sinclar sold the project or if Amstrad closed it: QL enthusiasts continued undeterred to produce hardware and especially software, rewriting and expanding the operating system and, once they could no longer produce or update the hardwares, they wrote emulators in order to keep QL alive.<br \/>\nSo many people in the QL thirty years life engaged in producing new things, in improving what had been produced, in correcting errors.<br \/>\nBut no one has ever thought to organize the work of all these people in order to make it consistent, as if, by analogy, dozens of skilled mechanics had built all the parts of a car but, for some mysterious reason, nobody had ever proceeded to assemble them.<br \/>\nCustomers were forced to manually download the single pieces and assemble them to get a completed product; It was necessary to be constantly up to date, otherwise you risked to miss some pieces.<br \/>\nThis entailed a huge waste of time for experienced users, and frightened newcomers, so people fled though unwillingly to other more user-friendly systems.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8220;distros&#8221; arrive to QL<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black Phoenix fix all the problems listed above: simply download the application, unzip it, and QL is ready to be used.<br \/>\nBlack Phoenix is the first QL distribution not intended as a set of programs embedded in one store, but as a ready-to-use system; each single program is installed, configured, documented and indexed in the system menu.<br \/>\nBlack Phoenix is totally based on free software produced over the years by various QL users, and it&#8217;s provided exclusively free.<br \/>\nBlack Phoenix is a multilingual project.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SCREEN02-P.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SCREEN02-P-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SCREEN02-P\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>But what&#8217;s exactly a distribution?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Distribution software (abbr. \u201cdistro\u201d) defines a software collection related to one or more applicative areas, selected and distributed as a single package.<br \/>\nThe main feature of a distribution software is its configuration designed to create a work environment variously consistent, according to one or more shared features. The main philosophy is: the operating system is the combination of all the required softwares to get the full hardware utilization.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meaning of the name<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why did we choose this name? The reference to the Phoenix intend to be favorable: as the Phoenix rises from its ashes, as Quantum Technology team hopes for a new rebirth for QL and its operating system. \u201cBlack\u201d has been added referring to QL original color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The need for a new approach. The QL community has always been rigid, leathery, disinclined to unbend. 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