MorphOS news from Alchimie 2013

[takemehomegrandma]

During the MorphOS presentation at Alchimie 2013, an updated roadmap of some of the highlights of the upcoming MorphOS releases was revealed:


MorphOS 3.4:

• Support for non-native resolutions for Powerbooks
• Improved support for graphics cards based on R300 (Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800)
• Big improvement for AGP tranfer speeds on G5 (x5, up to 1.2 GB/sec) and 16 bit screens bug fixing
• Improvement for the network stack (speed + config)
• Password lock screen (on startup or during screen saver)

MorphOS 3.5:

• Mostly a bugfix release

MorphOS 3.6:

• Support for more recent graphic cards
• Support for more G5 models
• Javascript JIT for Odyssey
• CUPS integration
• SSHFS and SMBFS through FUSE

(Thanks to SoundSquare at MorphZone for his quick translation of the Amiga Impact report)

[TheMagicM]

3.6 sounds pretty good.  Looking forward to it.

[takemehomegrandma]

Note that since some time, the MorphOS Team has been releasing bugfix releases, with no or very few news in them, shortly after the bigger releases that introduces new stuff. So the odds that "MorphOS 3.7" will also be "mostly a bugfix release" following shortly after 3.6 is quite low!

[Bennymee]

Nice to read that roadmap. Care to explain how does CUPS work ? Does it need printerdrivers ?

[Colani1200]

MorphOS 3.6:

• ...
• Support for more G5 models
• ...

Ahh, nice, I'll keep my PowerMac 7.2 then, hope it'll be supported.

Care to explain how does CUPS work ? Does it need printerdrivers ?

Of course. However, since it is used in OS X and Linux (and other Unix derivates), there is a huge base of printers available. Wikipedia will tell you more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS

[Bennymee]

Ahh, nice, I'll keep my PowerMac 7.2 then, hope it'll be supported.



Of course. However, since it is used in OS X and Linux (and other Unix derivates), there is a huge base of printers available. Wikipedia will tell you more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS

Thanks, I allready read that, but is does not really explain how it works for MOS.
E.g. when there is a new printer on the market, how is it going to be supported on MOS, a recompile of CUPS, a recompile of the drivers for PowerPC...

[jj]

still no idea of the internal wireless working on MacMini etc then ?

[Linde]

SSHFS, finally!

[TheMagicM]

SSHFS, finally!

thats what I'm looking forward to.   SMBFS not working too well.  I can only go a few subdirectories down and then it just doesnt seem to work.

[nicholas]

FTPMount works better for me than smbfs does.

http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/FTPMount
http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/FTPMount_MOS

[takemehomegrandma]

The user acepeg who was present at the event, contributed with more information in the "MorphOS @ Alchimie 2013" thread at MorphZone.

acepeg wrote:
I was present at Alchimie,

Some importants things has been said (which was not listed on the top)

For Gfx card support, it will include only Ati cards, also for PCIE powermacs.
Fab talk about shaders support to be added in tinygl.
Fab said that gallium will not be used..

Fab has explained also that a future morphos version is in work, it will take a long time.
Some work has been done on a virtual machine (Qemu maybe)
The Goal is to have a completly new 64bit operating system whith smp and memory protection and virtual memory support.....
A big effort will be done to have the much possible actual components integrated into the new
operating system.

But this will close definitively the Abox wich is limited to his original concept, working again for such features on Abox is a big waste of time for him.

Fab explained that Powermacs will not have smp support...it's not in the road, asmp is possible but softwares must be rewritten for this, but in fact for him it's not impossible ...for mplayer and blender rendering for example.
Fab didn't say if asmp will be really added in the future.

Fab explained also that a grunch like application should be included in morphos but only for third party applications.

The next architecture is not chosen, even we can expect that they work on X64 for now (with qemu)
Fab said it will depend on machines available on the market....
X64 or Arm or ....

Fab also said that Sam460 port is in progress but this is a one man work for now, it will be a bit long.

Thank you Fab for your keynote.

Thanks for this info!

[TheMagicM]

Ok, so that means that....

There will be a new 64 bit version, but not one that runs on PowerMacs, right?  It will be for a different architecture?

[Iggy]

Ok, so that means that....

There will be a new 64 bit version, but not one that runs on PowerMacs, right?  It will be for a different architecture?

Well that makes sense when you consider that the planned jump to 64bit hardware also jettisons legacy compatibility.
It would not make sense to port it to the G5 in addition to whatever new ISA they pick.

[nicholas]

I <3 MorphOS.

The greatest OS the Amiga community never had!

[persia]

Three cheers for Morphos!