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Offline Hooligan_DCS

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Re: Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com
« on: May 19, 2003, 03:34:21 PM »
Ok.. lets wrap it up.

1) The person is clearly not capable of doing a _good_ review, and it shows. No experience how things work and how AmigaOS, and Amiga itself works. Ok, it's a one kind of review and thats ok.. outsider point of view. Got valid points, lots that I agree on aswell, but thats not a kind of review that an experienced Amiga user would do. One can debate was it targeted to Amiga users at all, but it was expected it would find itself to all amiga sites, so the answer IMO is yes.
2) Why the hell to do a review of 1.3 when it's public information that it has lots of unneccessarry bugs and lots of features are missing, of those many are fixed in 1.4, released shortly? Ok.. of course there could be a new review that compares whats fixed and added, but I can't see why she couldn't wait a couple weeks and even get to know the OS more better. There are people finding out new things weeks after use as there are no proper documentation of the OS itself, yet.
3) Why indeed a Peg wasn't sent to, for example, Slashdot, after 1.4 is released? Someone said sending it to osnews now was a step backwards and I agree.  
4) The review itself felt like it was done in half an hour, rushed. I've seen better reviews of different banana- and yoghurtlabels than this one.

That said, it's interesting to see how an outside feels about the system, after all, it will be targeted to "outsiders" soon. But the timing was wrong for this review. Is it reviewers fault for reviewing it too soon, or Genesi's fault for sending it to her too soon, pick a side.. as I am  a complete bastard and overal negative man, I blame both equally ;-)

Just my 10 cents.
 

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Re: Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2003, 05:54:51 PM »
@BBRV

>What we feel some have missed in this process is that in the end the Pegasos supports many operating systems.
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Well naturally the reviewer would concentrate on MorphOS, which (IMHO) at the moment is not 100% ready for a review. I would have expected You to know this when you sent the board for evaluation.
Especially to someone so little knowledge of pretty much ANYTHING relating to MorphOS and AmigaOS.
We got what was expected: a review of MorphOS.
Not review of Genesi's history, relations and similarities to AmigaOS. Add to that, some points which seemed to be very unclear to reviewer. In other words: she didn't know what she was reviewing.

It's like me doing a review of FreeBSD after two weeks of use with no background information what so ever. Result would probably something like this.
 

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Re: Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2003, 05:54:51 PM »
Sorry to be so negative .. I also find positive points and the idea was good. Somehow I feel the good intention went a bit off this time.