Pegasos - MorphOs Review on Osnews.com

[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.... ; }

 
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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.... : }

[bbrv]

Just an afterthought...

It is clear the coverage on OSNews was far superior than what followed on Slashdot.  On Slashdot the focus was more on the "mainstream"  -- "another PPC that will run MacOSX."  MorphOS was barely mentioned, Mac-on-Linux and EULA issues were the focus.  Please do not misunderstand us, these are very interesting issues too, but less important to our future than MorphOS itself or a special distro of Linux for the Pegasos.   One can clearly see the substantive focus of OSNews vs. the uncontrollable and explosive nature of Slashdot.  Both sites fill a role.  Yesterday, we benefited from the advantages of both!   :-D

All in all, it was a good day for coverage.  Plus, we "touched" a few people outside the Community yesterday, which is essential to the platform's success.

Sincerely,
R&B  :-)

[Kees]

It is clear the coverage on OSNews was far superior than what followed on Slashdot. On Slashdot the focus was more on the "mainstream" -- "another PPC that will run MacOSX." MorphOS was barely mentioned, Mac-on-Linux and EULA issues were the focus.

Hehe ... that would be different if you send the Pegasos to them ...

I'll stop now :-)

[bbrv]

Hi nOMAAM, that is how it is done in the United States.  All the computer magazines and all the websites work that way.  It works this way for more than computers...appliances, cars, in fact nearly every consumer product there is promotes their products this way!

We are sure it works that way here in Europe too.

Think about it!  ;-)

R&B  :-)

[Kees]

hehe ... please don't *explain* to me how business works ... i'm a manager myself ... its a matter of different approach.

We can discuss this for hours ... we're prolly not going to agree in the end ...

Your happy with the responce you got .. and thats the only thing thats important. :-)

[Palpatine]

Hi,

Actually, at least in the computer market, I know for a fact that lots of promotion by manufacturers/importers etc. is done by actually sending/giving products to magazines, here in Holland/Europe as well.

When the Dutch Amiga Magazine shut down years ago (note: NOT AmigaScene) they had about 2 carloads full of Amiga products which they got for free for (p)review purposes. Now this doesn't mean that it were automatically postive reviews, but it did work fine.

I think it does depend a little on the branch you're in though, I don't think Ford gives away it's latest models for free to magazines to get them to review them.

Cheers,
Ron

[dammy]

Yet in the firearm industry, they will do it for specific author's review of their new product.  I'm not sure how the auto industry does it, probably on a  short "sweetheart" lease basis.  Regardless, I'm happy to see Genesi getting some over due exposure outside our tiny community.

Dammy

[Tomas]

just *don't* understand why you give away a Pegasos to a site like Osnews instead of a site like slashdot ...

Do Slashdot do reviews? I only thought they posted reviews from other source like for example osnews?

If someone post about the review to slash, i bet it will be there pretty soon