So whats on the horizon for MOS?

[Iggy]

I wasn't sure which forum to put this in. Any ideas or hints at what is on the horizon for Morph OS? Anything exciting in the future or any broad roadmap of stuff?

Ask Piru. The development team just teases us users (mere mortals we are) about the details on future developments.

We know that they intend to release Powerbook support and that that development should bring 3D video drivers for the R300 Radeons.

After that, its anyone's guess. They've shown us screenshots of Apple G5 hardware running MorphOS (iMacs and Powermacs), and there's been talk of drivers for the R400 video cards and the X600. But all with disclaimers that nothing is decided and that these may never be released.

[Iggy]

MorphOS really just works. Look at the supported hardware list and buy/build a machine that fits the specs and try out the free demo. You can find systems meeting the specs for negligible prices or free so you can test drive MorphOS for almost nothing.

How much did you sell that one Powermac for Red?

[Iggy]

whats the least hardware that it'd still be worth running it on?

Are you looking for low price or minimal performance. The Efikas been mentioned, but I've seen 1.25Ghz Emacs running at about $35. If your willing to put up with 2D graphics only the 1.42 Ghz eMac will also work (and has 64mb of video memory).
Powermacs are also cheap. I have one I paid less than $50 for. Anything 733Mhz or faster is fine (you could even consider slower models but why).
Powermacs also have several PCI expansion slots.

[Iggy]

my g5 is ready to go, should one day, support for g5 become official

Yeah, we're not supposed to buy hardware ahead of time, but I've got a FireGL X3 video card that has been re-flashed with a Mac Radeon X800 XT BIOS (in case R400 support is introduced).
I'd love to see G5 support too, but we've been told that isn't happening any time soon.