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nie wszyscy czytają c.s.a.morphos, więc może mały repost:
I also posted this to the Moobunny discussion website.
In the ppcnux.de coverage of the Smart Network Developers Forum that
took place last week in Frankfurt Germany, there is a reasonable
amount of text devoted to MorphOS, excerpted below:
...Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda were on site, but also Nicolas Det
who was responsible for the Pegasos Gigabit Ethernet drivers and the
MPlayer port to Genesi's own, proprietary OS MorphOS, which continues
the tradition of a lean, clean AmigaOS on the much faster PPC
generation of Motorola/Freescale CPUs.
One computer was running MorphOS with different applications such as
the provided webbrowser Voyager, Aweb, a DVD player, PDF reader, gfx
program, streaming audio/mp3 player and the 3D titling program
MOSTitler.
The shown OS version seemed to be a beta of MorphOS 1.5 with an
unchanged "Ambient" desktop from back in 2003. A big difference to the
public 1.4.2 OS version is the possibility to use the G4 AltiVec SIMD
engine which finally allowed for the playback of the ultra-hires
Matrix Reloaded trailer in 1000x540 resolution. A nice 3D screensaver
came up when nobody was currently working at the machine.
Unfortunately, Monsieur Det bared us from taking photos of the new
networking preferences which also displayed a menu item for the system
controller's inherent highspeed Gigabit Ethernet device. MorphOS feels
quick and good and the still unscheduled 1.5 release will complete
some important missing features of the current 1.4.x version.
Still, MorphOS has a long way to go if it wants to become a serious
and recognized Operating System - freezing at a show may happen due to
Murphy's Law, but usually it should only be associated to the low
quality "Fenster" products of a certain company. We will be monitoring
MorphOS' progress and implementation of the Q-Box layer which is going
to offer SMP and memory protection by leaving the legacy Amiga
limitations behind.
Here's a good picture
http://www.ping.de/sites/tarbos/report/MOS1.5_MOSTitler.jpg of the MOS
system demoed.
My opinion is that this is continues Genesi's tradition of getting
MorphOS represented at mainstream PPC-type events, building awareness
for the time when MOS reaches a more advanced state and is ready to
grab for new markets.
It's good coverage but I hope that we somehow maintain a good degree
of Amiga compatibility, whatever happens with respect to Qbox and
memory protection and SMP. The coverage is not clear if the freeze
happened at this event or if it happened at some past event. I asked
someone who attended the show and he said he was unaware of any
instance like that, but he also said he was only at the MOS terminal
for 30 minutes and spent the rest of the time other parts of the
event. I asked another person who was at the show and he also didn't
know about it. The author of the article also said very nice things
about MorphOS, so I'm optimistic about 1.5 release.
They also covered Avalanche and Crabfire and ODW and so on, it's a
great article with pictures so go to
http://www.ppcnux.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4208 and
check it out.