Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com

[greenboy]

Indeed, the attributes of the Pegasos as a platform is that already several OSes have been ported to it - and many more are in process! This was considered very attractive to the Phoenix Developer Consortium, as we have tried to find a way to leverage a larger talent pool of alternative-platform developers but always there have been collisions between the platform's owners making collaboration or cooperative mindsets tough to come by.

When Phoenix saw what the Genesi roadmap was like for multiple OSes and spinoffs of the original Pegasos I design we felt that perhaps we had found a solution for our problems with platform owners, and we liked what we saw for the hardware future. With Pegasos II coming soon, and Eclipsis for tailored delivery devices, with Satellite TV and settop boxes... we feel that regardless of OS there are opportunities for developers of many OS preferences to do something on an alternative platform that has financial legs, and coincidentally a fledgling OS called MorphOS as well.

MorphOS is progressing rapidly in its ability to provide AmigaOS backwards compatibility transparently, and is designed for the future to provide - as you said - some really cool geek space. Anyone who appreciates an extremely fast and responsive, small footprint OS can easily design applications for desktop or OEM tailored platforms NOW!

So for the Phoenix Developer Consortium, Genesi seems to be the ideal partner: someone who appreciates the use of many OSes, allowing projects to come from many community mindsets, with room for innovation, entrepeneurship, and initiative. I would invite any interested developers with interest in any alternative OS to email me (see Phoenix website linked above) to get involved!

As far as pricing: expect this to be realistic as next-gen Pegasos II begins to ship sometime this summer or fall, and to be responsive to decreased manufacturing costs as higher volume kicks in. It may have been an early adopter and developer small volume unit with the first generation, but the intention is to be not only attractive from a geek toy standpoint, but to also make inroads for alternative computing : }
 
 
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coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium [http://phinixi.com]

[greenboy]

Not only does the platform have opportunities for applications development, but on multiple OSes it allows business plans to be formed around supplying tailored devices with bundled applications, for service providers, onsite stations, and various OEM markets.

So not only is there a geek toy here for demo coders and coders in general, there is a platform that can support entrepreneurs. if you have a business plan in the making, Phoenix and Genesi can help you take it to a realistic state and get it into the market!

[greenboy]

Hi Eugenia,

Thank you for the review, and thank you for being here to share those stats for OSNews. Speaking from a personal perspective, I feel that OSNews is a way better place to be right now - and in the future.

/. is a place to think about as progress is made on many fronts, hoping that slashdot readers/posters themselves will generally raise the level of discourse to the level OSNews generally enjoys. Right now I shudder when I think slashdot ... though it may have a primacy in numbers, the comments section generally reveals very narrow and antagonistic concerns.

Congrats for hanging in there and taking OSNews forward!

[greenboy]

hey cockney_dave,

I have to agree with Eugenia's appraisal here that the business plan is not entirely focused on MorphOS - nor should it be. All evidence of working with Genesi as providers of custom hardware about to enter its second-generation product is that early adopters, aka "geeks" may enjoy MorphOS, and former Amiga users may like the fact that it leverages their existing software collection... but many projects and products in the near-term and even the mid- and long-term can and should be driven by other OSes.

Contracts with, and the teams assembled to provide OEMs with tailored solutions sometimes depend on OS choice/specification. So selling them with other OSes on this efficient, clean small-footprint hardware we are coming into soon will still provide the development drive and funding to improve MorphOS and increase the baseline services and applications for MorphOS.

Which takes us back to the SuperBundle, in an odd roundabout fashion.... ; }

 
<--greenboy---<<<<
coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium [http://phinixi.com]

[greenboy]

As with many alien technologies {in relation to Slashdot coordinates ; }, the comments and articles usually end largely misunderstanding the focus of the originating item, and the intentions of the driving entity(s). Some of that is rather on-purpose, and some of it is just that the perspectives from different communities are bound to differ.

Still, at the end of the day, I usually get some perceptive and interesting inquiries.

 
<--greenboy---<<<<
coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium [http://phinixi.com]
 

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cdfr,

The day I got my Pegasos, I had the main harddrive stripped out of my last semi-running Amiga, and applications were being mined. The Amiga went directly into the closet museum and the smile went back on my face with the ability to use a great majority of my old apps, and my gigabytes of data and content.

Now, if I only had more time.... : }