MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing

[EvilGuy]

The news has even made Slashdot .. coverage is coverage I suppose and its reasonably accurate.

[EvilGuy]

Even the article post itself is demeaning and condescending.  

Yes, they could've tried to polish a turd I suppose.

[EvilGuy]

The wireless stuff is simply not ready to be used by the masses.

Really? I mean, when you say "the masses" you're really talking about that miniscule group of people that a) can be assed getting an ancient Mac b) know what morphos is c) can be bothered to pay the exorbitant fee to purchase it and then install it and d) know that they're using an OS that is crippled in terms of hardware it supports and software it runs.

I think if the wireless isn't ready for those "masses" then it must be a state of non-written-ness.

[EvilGuy]

If you want to bitch and moan about how unfair it is, do it elsewhere.

Its not unfair. If people want to spend money on something that isn't finished by modern standards then so be it. A fool and their money are easily parted.

But like you said, its a hobby OS - nobody is expecting morphos to be a serious anything, right?

Are you really suggesting that users should be manually writing cryptic wpa_supplicant.conf files in order to get online? This stuff really is not ready for wider audiences yet.

Morphos isn't ready for the wider audiences. If it was, it would have functional wireless however the people who are going to be paying for this probably are the ones who'd be bothered to fiddle with configuration files.

(Hell, if morphos was ready for the wider audience it'd be running on hardware created in the last few years, not something you need to grab from dumpster diving - but that's probably a whole new thread..)

[EvilGuy]

What I am suggesting is creating an actual user space, where people who actually use it can have their slice of pie. It is a filter, of sorts, to the 4chan overflow we get. To this end, it basically follows the rules many etats-unidans place on politics: if you do not vote, you cannot criticize. Applying it to MorphOS, you get: "If you aren't using it, you cannot complain.

Their own place where they get to sit around, pat each other on the backs and let each other know how good a job they're doing. Sounds awesome. When the circle is finished, who eats the cookie?

The problem lies in people who cannot be appeased, much like the Knights of Ni they simply want more shrubberies than one can provide.

The problem is, some people are so in love with morphos/os4 that they can't handle criticism. Saying anything negative about their idol is an attack on them personally. A sheltered community of like-minded users isn't going to make things better.

But hey, good luck with your cult.

[EvilGuy]

I find CLIs useful a lot, not only in Linux, but also MorphOS, Amiga and Windows.

Years ago, when Amiga users had the skills to actually type commands into the command line, it was regarded as a special Amiga-ness that the GUI and CLI were so nicely integrated.

Ah, the good old days :-)