Excuse me for stating the obvious - but MUI and ANY other necessary programs, should be included with Deneb [...]
The main problem that has led the amiga into problems was that the gaming and app industry in the late 90ies still wrote games for unexpanded Amigas without faster CPU or graphic boards and RAM. As well noticed, the product description says: "comfortable control of USB stack by GUI (MUI) ". While it is not *necessary* for the product to work, because it nicely can be run from command line, too, I definetely see MUI as one of the GUI toolkit standards, if not THE toolkit standard, available for the Amiga for more than 15 years. There are thousands of Apps on Aminet using MUI and most don't even notice this fact in their descriptions. In fact, Poseidon would never have had any GUI that would resemble anything like it has now if it hadn't be for MUI.
Sorry, but somewhere the reasoning has to stop. And as such, I never would have considered and still don't consider including the MUI package in a Poseidon or Deneb software distribution. You might have noticed that the installer disk image for the Deneb is 99% full. The installer disk of the Subway is 100% full, also using tricks like hard links to drawer icons to squeeze a one or two kilobytes out, or removing all comments and surplus spaces from the installer script, just to have enough space for a new class or feature.
If we had used CDs, people probably would whine about not having a CD drive. Or have broken filesystems. Or whatever.
The requirements for Poseidon are always stated with a 68030+ CPU. Although it will actually run fine on a 68020. But those people usually don't have a fast ram expansions. Last month we had somebody trying to use Poseidon on a 2 MB total ram machine. That's freaky!
MUI? Magic User Interface?? First time I heard of that (early 2000's), I thought WTF? A program that sorta/kinda replaces Amiga GUI/Intuition or whatever - that seemingly does nothing different, takes forever to load and utilizes a squished screenmode.
Or, you could read the fine manual. MUI provides font sensitive, fully customizable, auto-layouting user interfaced with enhanced GUI elements, easily expandable by object oriented custom classes. And for developers, this easy-to-use GUI toolkit is *unmatched* on *any* operating system or platform so far. Not by qt, surely not swing, not RCP, not cocoa etc...
It's okay that you never heard of MUI, but then not really informing yourself and rather posting phrases like the ones above, somewhat disqualifies you, which I think, is a bit sad.
