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MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« on: November 24, 2006, 04:38:54 PM »
23.11.2006

The MorphOS Team is pleased to announce that the next public release of MorphOS will support the EFIKA. MorphOS is a lightweight and flexible operating system and EFIKA is a low-power and silent miniature mainboard based on the Freescale PPC5200.

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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2006, 08:19:46 PM »
excellent news!
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2006, 10:11:58 PM »
Kick butt!  :-D The only questions are when and how much? One should be able to build a basic system for less than the cost of a MacMini.

Yes, yes, I know the specs are low on the Efika. But for this market, it's price makes it a god send and it will run most classic software quite well.

Good job! Hello.. Amiga inc and Hyperion!! How about some news?
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2006, 11:08:03 PM »
Not trying to get my hopes up, but the possibility of having this for MorphOS and the Sam440 for AmigaOS4 both on my desk with a monitor/keyboard sharing switcher is really starting to sound appetizing. Both efficient/lightweight operating systems running on low-power consumption/space saving PPC computers!

Again, not trying to get my hopes up though. :roll:
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2006, 11:38:36 PM »
I just wish it had more RAM. I think the CPU speed is fine, but 128MB is pushing it for MOS, especially since it has no virtual memory support.

Still, I think I'll soon be adding another system to my fleet of NG Amigas. :-)
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2006, 04:22:54 AM »
Yea, This seems to be the sleeper good news around here. The 128 MB of Ram does trouble me a bit though. I've never used MorphOS, so I'm not sure how this would effect overall?
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2006, 06:37:05 AM »
I think the 128MB would be fine for native MorphOS stuff (afterall, virtually all classic users make due with that amount, or less), but it's piggy ports of *nix stuff that I'm worried about, as well as Linux itself - going to need a pretty big swap partition to use this as a day-to-day desktop machine!
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2006, 01:07:30 PM »
According to what I have read - 256 & 512 MB configs. can be made available. At what price? I donno.
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2006, 03:06:13 PM »
I don't think anybody is considering this to be used as desktop-systems with a current bloat-linux.

One could offcourse run an Linux-desktop as cut down as they were 7 years ago, but I don't see many people doing it either.

Looking at the suggested projects in the EFIKA-developer-program should give you a better idea of what the target markets are.

128MB and MOS on the other side was the most common setup for Pegasos_1, and I never really had reason to complain.
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2006, 03:36:26 PM »
@ Kronos

Sure, the target market isn't for Linux desktop use, but Amigans who use it as a MOS-box are probably going to want to boot into Linux now and then for tasks that MOS can't do (yet). Well, I will at any rate :crazy:
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2006, 05:19:37 PM »
awesome!!  Is this thing faster then the PegI g3/600?
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2006, 05:29:11 PM »
I will buy one
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2006, 05:46:03 PM »
@TheMaciM

The CPU is defintly slower, the RAM might be faster, IDE should be somewhere around pre-April Pegs, so no I don't think much will run faster than on a Peg1.
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2006, 12:00:34 AM »
thats ok... MOS on my G3/600 was real quick...so I can deal w/a slowdown.  GIT R DUN.  Lets see MOS 1.5 released w/this.. I want it.. $299 for this with MOS is a good deal.. I'll buy it for that price. (is that what it will sell for?)
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Re: MorphOS Team On EFIKA Support
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2006, 03:31:08 AM »
128MB for Linux is definatly do-able. Just stay away from the latest KDE or Gnome desktop manager and stick with Fluxbox or something and you will be fine. Just look at Damn Small Linux.

Anyone have case ideas for the Efika yet? This this is non-standard, right!?!?
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