Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com

[System]

If i was Genesi, i would send one to slashdot.org ... more possible buyers/developers there ...

I thought that also.  Get the hardware/os reviewed by someone with indepth IT knowledge, not some hobbyist.

[System]

@Nomaam,

I have to politely disagree with your assessment.  Slashdot has an infinitely wider audience, granted, but in general, their site is filled with malcontented people who literally seem to hate everything.  OSNews.com is seen as a somewhat smaller but unbiased source of news and reviews.  (Wish I could say the same for their moderation staff).

As such, it's by far better suited as a "first step" in marketing.  Genesi got her feedback as a non-Amiga community "outsider", they now know what they should consider changing to make MorphOS more desirable to the outside markets, and will more than likely accept those changes.

The market here is to show that the Pegasos runs all these OS's and is really the cross-platform of choice, and not necessarily for the Amiga-only market.  It takes time to establish the worth of being able to have a PPC motherboard that you can run multiple operating systems on and I don't think the people at slashdot are willing at this point to accept that.

Slashdot eventually, but not first.

[System]

>I just *don't* understand why you give away a Pegasos to a site like Osnews instead of a site like slashdot

I will tell you why:
Slashdot does not always care about such reviews. They don't write almost anything themselves, they outsource their articles, and the are based exclusively on what people submit.

Also, you questioned the size of OSNews. I have an answer about this too: OSNews serves more than 3 million web pages per month (this is impressions, not file hits).  In fact, for April 2003 we landed on a 118,000+ web pages average PER DAY. According to Alexa, OSNews is the SECOND BIGGEST community news web site that covers alternative OSes, after Slashdot (actually, ./ has a more broad news selection than just OSes). NewsForge, MacSlash, Amiga.org, ann.lu are all _way behind_ OSNews popularity and traffic-wise (I checked Alexa so I have researched their rank with some online stats). The fact that you get many comments here is because, since forever, Amiga users are very talkative. Even on OSNews.

I hope this clears it out.

[System]

>Thank you for the review, and thank you for being here to share those stats for OSNews.

BTW, here are our monthly stats:
http://66.181.171.71/2/42699/7/
Also, the story is now featured on Slashdot anyway (and also on 6-7 more big Linux and Mac sites that we normally syndicate our news daily).  ;-)
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/1820203&mode=thread&tid=137

[System]

You have some misconceptions here:

> they effectively suggest Genesi should concentrate their efforts on making a Linux Box and forget MorphOS

No one said that. MorphOS is PART of the geek factor and should remain part of the business plan. But MorphOS *today* is not ready to *lead* a whole platform into commercial success. What I suggested was to also concentrate on marketing the platform as Linux or BSD or (better) Darwin until MorphOS is ready to fit the bill.

>Why is everyone so obsessed with Linux

if there is one person that is _not_ obsessed with Linux, that is me. I don't quite like Linux as a desktop machine. My favorite free Unix (for servers of course) is FreeBSD while Solaris and IRIX are my favorite commercial Unices. However that doesn't mean that Linux doesn't "sell" to others and Genesi shouldn't take advantage of this fact. They should.

> I never felt Amiga was a geeky platform and I hope it doesn't go that way

Surely, in the past Amiga was a great home computer. But what Genesi sells today is a motherboard and a CPU. Obviously, this doesn't appeal to my mother. She will electrify herself if she tries to put the computer together herself.
Until Genesi provide a full solution, this product remains geeky (or at least "technical"), you like it or not. ;-)