MorphOS for AmigaONE

[MarkTime]

OK, the piracy discussion doesn't appear to be producing anything new, so lets discuss a bit of strategy.

I personally believe the MorphOS team should release MorphOS for AmigaONE, and that this will actually help sales of Pegasos.

OK, first I think I understand why there is a belief it could hurt sales....after all if the AmigaONE is the only board that can run both OS 4 and MorphOS, then, that adds value to that solution.

On the other hand, in the absence of OS 4, I think AmigaONE owners would much rather run MorphOS than Linux (we aren't usually big Linux fans here, eh?).

In the long run is MorphOS captured the marketshare and hearts of Amigans, then the Pegasos, with its lower price point and elegant design, could very well benefit from MorphOS's popularity, and it would drive sales of the Pegasos?

Oh I know, I'm just a bystander, but if it were me, I'd release MorphOS for AmigaONE, and make it a priority...

[Hooligan_DCS]

Oh no not again :-D

.. But what I have learned from past half a year, they tell, MorphOS is buggy, in beta stage, lacks features etc. etc.

Why would any selfrespecting AmigaOne owner want it when they have OS4 ?

[Jupp3]

...Really soon?

[xeron]

Well, speaking as an AmigaONE owner, i'd like to have MorphOS on here, even though i'm really looking forward to OS4.

Doesn't really bother me too much though; I plan to get a Pegasos, too :-D

[MarkTime]

@hooligan
lol...well maybe they just can't admit it, that they want it, or don't know they want it.

but seriously, I wouldn't listen to users (in fact, I understand, that I'm recommending that you don't even listen to me!, lol)....

users don't know what they want, they think they want something....but who knows.  I would think they would love to run MorphOS over linux, even if they love to criticize it, in its absence.

I wonder something else too, i will put to all PPC linux ppl....do you like it?  I mean did you plan to go OS 4 only at first, but now you suspect you'll be dual booting, even after OS 4?

[xeron]

Well, I think MorphOS looks great, and so does AROS. I can't wait till I have future versions of all 3 on my desktop :-D

[Gaidheal]

@Xeron:

Vote of confidence for AROS noted, I am sure Matt would be pleased to see someone say it too :¬)

@Marktime:

I see two threads of you being corrected was not enough, now we need a third so you can pontificate on piracy some more?  Or are you HONESTLY (you like that word I know) going to discuss whether MorphOS ought to be ported?

[Hooligan_DCS]

I am sure most of the ones running A1 with Linux would be very satisfied with MOS, but lets face it: there is lots of hatred and prejudice towards it.

That said, I would also like to run OS4 on my Peggie. Reason 1, it should be in more advanced stage than MOS1.3.. on the other hand in a week we will know where the current development of MorphOS actually is.
 

[xeron]

@Gaidheal

Well, I don't know about confidence. At the moment, i'm rooting for OS4, and if OS4 lives up to its featurelist, it'll be my main OS for sure, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to play with AROS too :-D

[Gaidheal]

Using it at all is a vote of confidence, in my book :¬)

If it lives up to my expectations (and I do of course have a large part to play in that!) it should become my main OS.  But I am likely to use NT5 for a long while to come yet, even with AROS as my preferred platform.

I hope AOS4 meets your needs as well as you would like.

[KennyR]

Technically MorphOS should run on an A1 without much change. You'd have to reflash the A1 to use OpenFirmware though. It wouldn't be too hard to write a boot image for UBoot, but don't expect the MOS team to do it - they're always far too busy.

[porneL]

Hardware running both OSes will win. System running on both platforms will have more software.

Reasons: by buying hardware that runs both systems you can access all the software.
By making software for system running on both platforms you can get away with one version.

In case you ask it would be A1 + MOS.

But besides software availability there is a price. Pegasos is cheaper, therefore its likely that A1 users instead of upgrading would switch to Peg (unless they are excentric or  fanatic

[MarkTime]

@Gaidheal

If you think your rude, illiterate responses are going to have any impact on my posting habits, then you haven't been paying attention.

[jahc]

I dont think MorphOS for AmigaOne's would work, because the MorphOS team believe the bugs are in the Artica, whereas Hyperion believe the bugs are elsewhere and are in the process of fixing them. This is not a MorphOS slander. I'm just saying, they will have the same problems with the A1 that they had with the BETATESTER because I dont think they know where the bugs are in the Artica based systems. Again, this not a MorphOS slander, please dont be upset with me, I'm not trying to start a flame war.

[Gaidheal]

@Marktime:

Rude?  Matter of opinion.

Illiterate? LOL LOL LOL I actually choked laughing at this one.. nuff said  :-D