Yet another PowerBook G4 MorphOS video

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Pretty impressive.

Really? How?
How about this then?

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And it'd be useful for college as well.

Also when you find yourself unable to connect to any wireless network?

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Seem a little nervous with morphos, this can be the first amiga-like OS running on a portable machine and you just jocking.

Huh, AROS runs on laptops, as did Amithlon way back.

I'm not joking, for MorphOS (or any other OS for that matter) to be of much use on a laptop, wireless networking is quite important, dont you think?

Without wireless networking, it is actually more usefull to be able to run the "Amiga system" in a hosted environment that provides it, like how I can run hosted AROS and UAE on my laptop.

It would be great of MorphOS could have a "un*x-box" to provide networking and various services that is simply too much work to implement natively. Like Haiku uses FreeBSD for these things.

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Release of MorphOS doesn't exclude the possibility of writing a WLAN driver.

There's more to it than "a WLAN driver", as you know.

What we have decided, however, is that lack of WLAN driver doesn't block release of MorphOS for specific hardware.

In a similar manner we're not considering PC Card or bluetooth support critical for release.

That's all good and well, as long as it is clearly communicated, alot of people - especially those coming from "the outside" - take these things for granted.

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Ofcourse, but open wireless nets is becoming a thing of the past these days, just sitting here at home I see 8 networks, of which none are open, 2 are WEP, 5 are WPA/WPA2-PSK and 1 is WPA/WPA2-EAP/1X. Our "city net" is also uses EAP/1X, at least that is how I connect to it (eduroam).

It's not just about encrypting the wireless line, it is also about making sure the client connecting is allowed to do so, hijacking authenticated sessions on web based portals is just too easy.