From all that I have seen of morph os, I like it but I simply don't understand all the effort to port the os to outdated mac hardware.
All of this effort would be better spent porting to x86. If it ran on x86, I would buy it that day, and so would so many others.
Might we ever see Morph ported to x86, or like AOS are they totally against this idea? I'm simply curious, I don't think I ever read or saw any position on this issue from the developers.
Steven
It is perhaps a hundred times harder to port PPC MorphOS which was started on Phase5 PPC accelerator boards for Classic Amiga computers to x86 than it is to port it to any other PPC platform, such as the MacMini and other G4 Mac models.
That is why the developers have concentrated their work the way that they have. There is a very limited number of team members and hours that they can work on MorphOS as they all have other regular jobs (I think they ALL have regular jobs) and they don't make their living from writing code for MorphOS.
The PPC Mac's are the most powerful and most widely available platform for the team to target at this time. They may choose to target x86 hardware some time in the future, but it will be a long time coming and running MorphOS on the 1.42GHz to 1.67GHz G4 Mac hardware is the best option for the "Short Term" future of MorphOS, until the team has more time to work on a different alternative.
There are some that say they won't buy or use MorphOS until it is ported to x86 and others that say they will abandon using MorphOS the day it is ported to x86. It is silly to say either and be so fanatic about which chip it runs on. Try it out and see if it meets your needs. The hardware it runs on is varied and runs the price range from $99 for an Efika mobo, to almost $1,000 for a used Pegasos2 complete system with a registered keyfile.
The demo of the OS is free to download and try and there are no limitations on it's functionality for each 30 minute period of time before it slows down, so you can get a very good idea of how well it will suit your needs during that time.
