The MorphOS Team has announced the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.0. The release brings, among many other things, PowerBook support for 1.67GHz models, the CD / DVD authoring application Jalapeno, the FTP / SFTP client Transfer, an updated Odyssey Web Browser, new Reggae classes, the Reggae based music player Jukebox, and many other improvements. The update is free for the owners of MorphOS 2.x keyfiles. Moreover, older machines can now be registered at reduced prices.
Just bought one of these little beauties purely to run MorphOS 3.0 on it.
I will try to write a short review of the whole installation process and first few days general use if time permits and post it here if you like Thom?
Just updated my Mac mini 1.5 GHz with MorphOS 3.0. Updating took less than 10 minutes and everything seems to work (haven’t tested all things yet). It’s a real pleasure to use.
Unfortunately the WLAN on the powerbook is not yet supported, but except of that it’s also pretty nice on the Powerbook.
The release of 3.0 took indeed quite some time, but while not not out there to conquer Windows (or other major OSes) it is pretty polished and delivers quite some fun, usability and productivity. Probably you cannot expect more from a project with such little number of developers and users.
I have an eMac sitting idle in the attic, I was just wondering what to do with it.
I’m a user of niche OSs myself, but I always found a bit hard to understand the MorphOS appeal. It only runs a few PPC machines (iBook Gentoo Linux PPC user here), and is quite expensive. The userbase, I presume, is pretty small, but probably faithful.
If you’re a MorphOS user: what makes you use it and what do you use it for?
I think the 90% of MorphOS users are amigans or ex-amigans.
I use it for that reason myself, and from technical point of view I think MorphOS is the most advanced “amiga-like” OS out there.
However I use a SAM440ep with AmigaOS 4 as my main Amiga machine… I have MorphOS installed in my old PowerMac G4, but I don’t use it so much.
You think it’s only 90%?
I’m too lazy to write a detailed response, so:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1RsvEm7UrU
So, nostalgia?
That and the fact is it’s very fast and responsive, does what I need from a computer, I know how (a lot more than Linux) it works so I can fix it if needed/adjust it to suit my preferences.
Others Milage may vary etc. etc, and it’s not for everyone. But what else do you want from an OS anyway?
just curious … like someone who’s involved with the matter, do you think that amiga os and morph os, have any future beyond your generation? i mean, are they able to attract new users?
Nostalgia and getting the best OS for the hardware as X.Org is.. really.. slow.. on the Efika.
Perhaps it’s not a good thing to let nostalgia lead you to slow, overpriced hw… ( http://www.osnews.com/permalink?520468 and generally in http://www.osnews.com/comments/26029 )
You know what’s the best part? Your MorphOS machine can’t really handle the yt video you linked to, certainly not with full features/controls and in full quality.
(also, lazy, so some of my posts from http://www.osnews.com/comments/26029 )
Edited 2012-06-15 16:46 UTC
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