OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23891/MorphOS_2_6_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 08:37:06 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Yay! http://www.osnews.com/thread?444699 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444699 I just bought a Model 3,5 G4 Tower on fleabay for £45 JUST to run this. ;) Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (n.l.o) Comments Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444712 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444712 "...now would be a good chance to turn it into something useful."

I ran in on my ppc and it was anything but useful.

Geez what a waste of my time. Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wosnicrak) Comments RE: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444715 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444715 Care to give more details? What did you expect and what did not work as stated? Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (truckweb) Comments Comment by frood http://www.osnews.com/thread?444728 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444728 Anyone tried it on a PPC iBook/Powerbook? I quite fancy a MorphOS laptop Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments RE: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444756 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444756
"...now would be a good chance to turn it into something useful."

I ran in on my ppc and it was anything but useful.

Geez what a waste of my time.


Amiga OS's are very much unlike Windows, Linux etc.... The learning curve is quite steep if you aren't used to the way they work. Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (n.l.o) Comments RE[2]: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444757 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444757
Care to give more details? What did you expect and what did not work as stated?


I expected something useful.

Everything worked though. Just not useful. Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wosnicrak) Comments RE[3]: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444768 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444768 Maybe it's because you don't have a need for an Amiga OS?

What's a waste of time for you cans be something good for someone else. You can't trash something just because you don't need it. Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (truckweb) Comments RE: Comment by frood http://www.osnews.com/thread?444774 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444774 PowerBook/iBook is not supported with 2.6. It won't even boot, don't waste your time trying. (MorphOS refuses to boot on anything but officially supported machines.) However, the development team demoed a version nicknamed 'MorphOS 3.0' at some Am*ga show, earlier this Summer, running on an 1.67Ghz PowerBook G4. You can find videos of that particular demo on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=morphos+3.0+powerbook&a... Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chainq) Comments RE: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444796 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444796 I had the same experience with AROS and Haiku. They are great to try out, but as soon as you need to sit down and get some work done, something essential is always missing.

There are certain needs that have to be met before any operating system can really be "useful" to even us IT enthusiasts. For me that would be: a Browser that can give the full internet experience, ssh client, usb support, and decent word processor. Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tarpit) Comments RE[2]: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444804 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444804
I had the same experience with AROS and Haiku. They are great to try out, but as soon as you need to sit down and get some work done, something essential is always missing.

There are certain needs that have to be met before any operating system can really be "useful" to even us IT enthusiasts. For me that would be: a Browser that can give the full internet experience, ssh client, usb support, and decent word processor.


1) http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.9.readme
2) Built in Remoteshell app provides SSH
3) http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html
4) https://docs.google.com/ - Use with 1

There you go! ;) Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (n.l.o) Comments RE[3]: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444816 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444816 I look forward to trying out Morphos on my old G4 this weekend. ;)

I'm going to try to dual boot with OSX 10.3. I keep panther around since it works with my old Digi-001 recording interface. Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tarpit) Comments RE[4]: Comment by wosnicrak http://www.osnews.com/thread?444836 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444836
I look forward to trying out Morphos on my old G4 this weekend. ;)

I'm going to try to dual boot with OSX 10.3. I keep panther around since it works with my old Digi-001 recording interface.


I've just noticed that MOS2.6 comes with OWB 2.10 which uses a more recent build of WebKit. ;) Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (n.l.o) Comments Not wired for sound? http://www.osnews.com/thread?444873 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444873 I have been waiting avidly for this for some time, it's great news that MorphOS will run on my AGP-Graphics G4. Just read though that sound is not currently supported for these early G4 models. I hope that implies that it will be a feature for the future?! Will give it whirl, all the same! Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments RE: Not wired for sound? http://www.osnews.com/thread?444896 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444896 You can install a Soundblaster PCI card and get sound thru it ;) Its cheating, but atleast you get sound ;) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amix) Comments RE[2]: Not wired for sound? http://www.osnews.com/thread?444924 http://www.osnews.com/thread?444924 Thanks for the hint! It's a good thing that I have one or two pulls from older machines lying around. Have downloaded the .iso and will give it a go. Cheers! Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments Demo version? http://www.osnews.com/thread?445111 http://www.osnews.com/thread?445111 The website calls the download a "time-limited demo version", but it doesn't seem to describe what this means, or how to get a full version. Can anyone elaborate? Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jamesgecko) Comments RE: Demo version? http://www.osnews.com/thread?445115 http://www.osnews.com/thread?445115 jamesgecko, it comes on an ISO file which is burned to CD for a bootable LiveCD. The LiveCD runs the OS by itself from the optical drive, but may also be installed to hard-drive (which performs better). The installer is a user-friendly tool in the OS, and accessible by GUI (like nearly everything else). The ISO is available for free download by anyone. The 30-minute limit is removed by online purchase of registration/key file. There is a tool in the OS itself that enables the purchase in a user-friendly way. If you choose not to register, you can use the 30-minute version indefinitely, but you'll be interrupted and have to reboot every 30 minutes.

If you have the hardware, give it a try, you might really like it. Linux has more capable and more numerous apps, but if you think there's no advantage at all to MorphOS over Linux (or OS X), you just haven't experienced the responsiveness and fast feel of MorphOS. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Android Fan) Comments