Is anybody thinking about joining the Rebellion (Pegasos/MOS)?

[amigamad]

The Pegasos and MorphOS look great but im buying an amigaone g4xe and can not afford to Pegasos and MorphOS as well it does look and sound like a very good alternative and seems to have some good support.Is there a dealer thats going to sell Pegasos and MorphOS in the uk. :-D  :-?

I was just curious if anyone is thinking about jumping the fence for Pegasos and MorphOS?

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[Desler]

Im going to stay with Aos 4.0. But it would be nice if Thendic got that license from amiga so I could run the os on the pegasos board.

[KennyR]

I like MOS and the Pegasos is an impressive board, just as good as the XE it seems.

But I have my own idea of where MOS is going and I don't want to go there. This isn't to say it doesn't have a future, it does. But if I bought a Pegasos and waited 3 years down the line I have a very strong suspicion that the only software for it would be rather poor Linux ports. This is MY OPINION, so flames will be ignored or ridiculed.

I'd rather see what OS4 has to offer first.

[Jose]

I don't think there's anything wrong with AOS4 license and it even protects the users from companies without erm.. good practices.
But I must say I now understand better the MOS people, and they might be right in some few things.

[Troels_E]

Well...

I will not run Morphos as I consider it just an AmigaOS clone, that still aren't working properly and still is in Beta. OS4 seems to be the way for me and i look forward to it :-)

The Pegasos board looks nice, is cheaper than the A1 board but unfortunately it is not able to run OS4.

Another thing about the board is that it'ds produced by/at DCE, probably the biggest thieves in Amiga history. There's no way I'm buying stuff produced at their assembly line, I'm not supporting them.

This was not meant as a flame or anything, but simply my opinion. Best wishes to everyone, whatever way they choose to upgrade:-)

The only comparison I can think of is the GFX card market. The best NVidia cards, for example, only outperform the others by a few FPS and
thats usually because of higher specced ram

and the GPU itself bieng superior...but yeah your right... it isnt 'performance' so much as it is features people argue...the ability to run two CPU's in the future... the ability to use firewire/spdif and the the onboard sound...I see those as a very minor value and it's only a small reason of why I like it over the A1... the A1 is almost the same...its the license issues and the lack of a product right now that turned me.
But as I said before I dont intend on getting either right now... got my luggable it's fine

[Kent]

Once OS4 is released and I have an A1 system I'm going to search for a local user who has a Pegasos and MorphOS so I can give a really good comparison between the two.  I know MorphOS isn't done, but neither is OS4.  I've heard from a few people who have seen/used MorphOS first hand that it lacks quite a few neccessary functions before it can be released as a full 1.0.  I'm hoping my side by side comparison between the two completed products will alieviate any questions which still remain.  The problem I'm having though is finding a local user near me who will be purchasing a Pegasos.

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[AmigaMac]

Okay Kent, we'll be awaiting your comparison review in the near future hopefully :-D

[Mitrado]

I'll probably wait for a while to see how both choices progress...
I don't have enough money to go for one System and if that fails change to the other one.
What would be really great to see was everybody (OS4 and MOS) joining efforts to make a really great System!!

See ya!

I agree both systems do need to mature quite a bit... A2/Pegasos2 will probably be comparison time... MOS is very unstable and prone to gliching...but AOS isnt done yet to compare with it... and we're all just going to have to wait I guess and see what ends up happening with both... my guesstimate is it'll be a year or more before both systems reach their aprox-stability high-point...and by then A1/Pegasos will be VERY obselete...so A2/Pegasos2 should be comming along

[wonea]

Both systems look tempting, however AOS5's multiplatform nature seems damn impressive.

[ne_one]

@Zadoc

"The hardware dongle issue also makes me lean a bit closer to the MOS camp."

I really don't understand this concern. If you buy OS4 bundled with an AmigaOne why would you care if licensing restrictions are in place to prevent someone else from copying it?

their in place to keep AOS4 tied to that hardware....so you buy A1... it's the only board that'll ever run OS4 ...you cant buy a Pegasos or another board a year or two down the line and stick AOS4 on it..and since they seem clamped to having obselete equipment have the license... you wont be able to upgrade(except to their next-gen obselete equipment)... that's why I dont want to touch AOS4 ...if enough people complain they will release it as a 'normal' OS and not a bundled one... I hope that happens...if not... I wont touch it

[ne_one]

I just cross-posted a news item on the MorphOS article that was release yesterday:

MorphOS Article (HTML)

Interesting gameplan, particularly for the future (64-bit, X-Windows, multiprocessor support). But, the dependency on the PPC and unwillingness to consider the x86 due to context switching is a bit limiting to me.

ne_one I agree entirely... sticking to PPC only is a dead end for anyone... that is very narrow minded and zealous of them and if they hope to have a real future they should move to hardware people can afford and will want to buy... that may happen in time... for now I think their doing an OK job.