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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runetrek on June 23, 2005, 12:11:36 PM

Title: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: runetrek on June 23, 2005, 12:11:36 PM: Hi,

i'm new to this forum, just came over to write this (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16456) actually. But since it got no replies I was wondering what setup people have here, and what they intend to buy in the future. Is there any interest in OS4? What about MorphOS? Aros?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: odin on June 23, 2005, 12:22:42 PM: I have no interest in OS4 or MOS anymore since I will not be getting any hardware to run it on. Good old OS3.x for me and/or AROS.
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Varthall on June 23, 2005, 12:43:29 PM: I have an AmigaOne and I'm all for Os4, I'd only like to have more spare time for coding. I'm interested in Aros, too, since it would allow to have a native AmigaOs-compatible os on my x86 laptop, someday I'll give it a try.

Varthall
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: on June 23, 2005, 12:44:00 PM: @runetrek

Welcome to the forums.

In regards to your question, I would estimate that about 70% of our users probably have older, classic Amigas (whether they are using them or not), while the other 30% are divided pretty much equally between using an AmigaOne or a Pegasos. Discount about 5% who're using AROS and I feel that's pretty accurate.

Web stats tell us that only about 9% of the browsers in use on Amiga.org are Amiga browsers, though as the people in denial will point out, a "lot of people" set their browsers (for whatever unknown reason) to spoof Internet Explorer so that they can get into most modern Web sites.

Wayne
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: djbase on June 23, 2005, 12:49:25 PM: @ runetrek

Well, I have MorphOS and already Papyrus. I do also have my Classic still around but I wont buy Papyrus for that. And OS4 doesnt run on my Pegasos, so...
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: bloodline on June 23, 2005, 01:50:04 PM: Quote

runetrek wrote:
Hi,

i'm new to this forum, just came over to write this (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16456) actually. But since it got no replies I was wondering what setup people have here, and what they intend to buy in the future. Is there any interest in OS4? What about MorphOS? Aros?

Personally, I have no interest in buying "new" hardware that is of no use to me. So that rules out OS4 and MOS, I also have a personal opinion that an OS should be open source (I want to see what back doors and national security "features" are hidden in my system) not to mention I have a facination for OS design, so that puts me firmly into the AROS camp :-)

Since I have a bunch of classic amiga's, pcs and a mac, I want to run my hobby OS on all of those machine... again that is only filled by AROS.
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: runetrek on June 23, 2005, 02:00:27 PM: @ DJBase

What do you think about the future for Pegasos/MorphOS? Would you have bought a Pegasos, knowing what you know now?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: djbase on June 23, 2005, 02:23:58 PM: Quote
What do you think about the future for Pegasos/MorphOS?

Well, I am not sure. It is hard for such a niche system to resist in the market. We are all waiting for MorphOS 1.5 Release and hope that the things will getting better a bit. There are some great apps in the pipeline for release too (BurnIT3, Pagestream5, Robin Hood,...).

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Would you have bought a Pegasos, knowing what you know now?

For now I would, yes. I used before an Amiga4000 with PowerPC and G-REX full loaded. But the Pegasos can handle all the stuff better, is faster and of course even cheaper.
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: TheMagicM on June 23, 2005, 04:32:52 PM: I'm considering buying a ODW to run Gentoo on..to set it up as a webserver/ftp server/ etc. Why? I dunno. Just to do it. I have my webserver running at home, works perfect but wouldnt mind something different.

Can you do a dual boot Gentoo/MOS setup?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:43:02 PM: IS THE AMIGA ONE's REALLY DISCONTINUED!!!
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:43:50 PM: WHY GOOD LORD
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:46:00 PM: Can someone please tell me where to buy a whole chain of Amiga One boards so I can purchase them! PLEASE! I dont care how much $ JUST TELL ME! THEY NEED MONEY FOR MORE BUSINESS!!
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:46:55 PM: BTW you CAN dual boot a Gentoo/ MOS setup
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:51:14 PM: Yeah you can definetly dual boot a Gentoo/ MOS setup
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TheMagicM wrote:
I'm considering buying a ODW to run Gentoo on..to set it up as a webserver/ftp server/ etc. Why? I dunno. Just to do it. I have my webserver running at home, works perfect but wouldnt mind something different.

Can you do a dual boot Gentoo/MOS setup?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: bloodline on June 23, 2005, 04:55:58 PM: Quote

Cybertron wrote:
IS THE AMIGA ONE's REALLY DISCONTINUED!!!

I think Eyetech, are getting more boards in soon if you want one...?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 04:57:52 PM: Ok I am going to build an Amiga company, does anyone want to make a donation?
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: Cybertron on June 23, 2005, 05:02:43 PM: What about this site:
http://anythingamiga.com/

Unless they are sold out to
Title: Re: OS4? MorphOS? Aros?
Post by: djbase on June 23, 2005, 06:37:56 PM: Quote

Can you do a dual boot Gentoo/MOS setup?

You can setup a bootmenu and include as many entries as you want (like MorphOS/Gentoo/YellowDog/Mandrake/Debian/Ubuntu).