Theo de Raadt says Pegasos Bad

[itix]

Interesting reading and no wonder he is saying it is not working... Pegasos based on Articia was pure crap. Peg2 has been available only for short time and G3@600MHz probably is not fast enough for OpenBSD. And Pegasos *is* expensive in the North-America.

Let's hope things improve upon time. Would be shame if OpenBSD is not supported.

Shame but that is Amiga world today.

[itix]

Do a search, and you'll find a quote from a few weeks ago about how the firmware is totally broken - also from Theo.

I tried but could not find that. Could you provide a link?

x86 is probably the best platform to run Linux or OpenBSD. And after Pegasos there aint any other sensible platforms... Macs pay like a fortune.


Edit
But Genesi must improve... working like this is no good.

[itix]

Read the reply to Theo on that mailing list, from a coder who essentially has confirmed his impressions.

The fact is that GigNIC is behind NDA. Guess you cant just walk in and download docs. Probably this is what Theo means by "the machine architecture is
more closed than the PC architecture". Will see what Genesi is going to do to cure this gap. Theo's comments are exaggerated but there is truth behind his words.

Please, don't start bluetrolling again and look at the bare facts.

FYI this has nothing to do with MorphOS.


Edit
Looks like OpenBSD support for Pegasos is over. NetBSD, anyone?

[itix]

I mailed Theo de Raadt and got reply today. I can understand his attitude.

In my opinion it is up to Genesi to fix this situation now. If MorphOS developers had to work in similar fashion would it work? I doubt...

[itix]

@Restore: There are jerks on both sides.

[itix]

OS4 had its momentum but it was two years ago. In the Meantime MorphOS saved lot of this community.