MorphOS for AmigaONE

[MarkTime]

OK, the piracy discussion doesn't appear to be producing anything new, so lets discuss a bit of strategy.

I personally believe the MorphOS team should release MorphOS for AmigaONE, and that this will actually help sales of Pegasos.

OK, first I think I understand why there is a belief it could hurt sales....after all if the AmigaONE is the only board that can run both OS 4 and MorphOS, then, that adds value to that solution.

On the other hand, in the absence of OS 4, I think AmigaONE owners would much rather run MorphOS than Linux (we aren't usually big Linux fans here, eh?).

In the long run is MorphOS captured the marketshare and hearts of Amigans, then the Pegasos, with its lower price point and elegant design, could very well benefit from MorphOS's popularity, and it would drive sales of the Pegasos?

Oh I know, I'm just a bystander, but if it were me, I'd release MorphOS for AmigaONE, and make it a priority...

[MarkTime]

@hooligan
lol...well maybe they just can't admit it, that they want it, or don't know they want it.

but seriously, I wouldn't listen to users (in fact, I understand, that I'm recommending that you don't even listen to me!, lol)....

users don't know what they want, they think they want something....but who knows.  I would think they would love to run MorphOS over linux, even if they love to criticize it, in its absence.

I wonder something else too, i will put to all PPC linux ppl....do you like it?  I mean did you plan to go OS 4 only at first, but now you suspect you'll be dual booting, even after OS 4?

[MarkTime]

@Gaidheal

If you think your rude, illiterate responses are going to have any impact on my posting habits, then you haven't been paying attention.

[MarkTime]

I think running Linux on MorphOS, via some kind of box, like the one Mac on Linux provides (without actually running Mac OS X, which is illegal) would be a lovely  idea.

There is also another one, dear to my heart.  ARANym, which is a very strange acronym, but stands for Atari Running on Any Machine.  It is a full 68K including FPU and MMU!

It allows you to run Atari software...including a completely legal clean box TOS called FreeTOS, but the idea here, is that with that MMU support, you might also be able to run Linux m/68K and/or FreeBSD.

ya ya sure sure, so what...not the most sought after OS's in the world...but it would be a fun geeky thing, if no other emulator was available, you could still get a linux live of sorts on your machine.

Apples old A/UX actually does run inside of Fusion on a real amiga, ....wild, wacky stuff.

I was originally working on porting linux m/68k to some kind of virtual machine, but now I simply think its a good idea, but won't work on it.  I'm thinking of getting AROS, and maybe poking around a bit, but it doesn't seem to be finished yet.