The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.7, which features various bug fixes as well as other minor improvements. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
They just keep on going with these regular releases.
OWB 1.23/1.24 is still experiencing some SSL connection problems; I can’t even access sites like PayPal but my real netbank (with better security) lets me right in – weird
Yeah, I have been waiting for that fix for forever. Fab, the developer of OWB, has been busy with other stuff apparently (he just released a new version of MPlayer, E-UAE JIT beta and SchummVM).
Youtube is also acting up more than usual lately.
But my internet bank works as fine as ever.
No real commentary nor analysis, and it looks to be basically a bug fix release. Does this raise to the threshold of news?
Back when this site had the Firehose sidebar this would have been perfect for that; but since that is gone I would like the bar be set a little higher for what qualifies…
I agree with you. However I welcome Thom’s commentary, regular MorphOS updates are good thing. Does this mean MorphOS is moving beyond their quarterly update groove?
Post no alternative OS news, people complain I’m not posting alternative OS news. Post alternative OS news, and people complain I’m posting alternative OS news.
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I have only tried to submit a news item once. I never saw it published, I never saw it rejected, I never saw…anything. And now I don’t even see it under Submissions anymore. I guess that means it was rejected but I will never know. It was about the digital assistent on blackberry. I guess it is a bit of a toss-up if your submission makes it or not unless you are Thom of course
This post and update REALLY stretches the limit for news, but why not post it? It is useful for some people and contains a nice link to more info. It is also easy to skip
Edited 2014-08-05 11:24 UTC
Submitted an article too, never was published. That’s life.
Kochise
Kochise you might want to go back and notice that the commenter said his submission just disappeared. Not accepted, not rejected, but disappeared. I also experienced this, wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss his comment as “That’s life”
Here is the thing: MorphOS has something like 10-20K people who have bought it IIRC; but based on the best estimates I have heard less than 3K people who actually use it.
Those people would know because they would get notified; and I suggest that people who don’t use it, but are interested would find out otherwise. I don’t think there are that many people left who would consider what appears to be a minor but fix release news…
Unless the post contained some real commentary or analysis. This is why i have suggested there be a separate sidebar for OS Updates unworthy of commentary or analysis.
It’s not a binary man. People want you to post, but they want you to post to a certain quality. If you wanted to put up a sidebar called “OS Update News” with little to no commentary; I don’t think you would get many complaints — I know I wouldn’t.
However this post was a bit like a styrofoam packing peanut, it filled space but had almost no substance.
I would love it if we could return to the old days when there were multiple posts per day as well as the firehose — but I suspect that isn’t going to happen. So failing that, could we keep the bar up, and not just posting for posting’s sake?
For example you could have posted that same story and then talked about the lack of any news about porting to ARM or x86. You could have done a little analysis and talking about the expected lifetime of PPC macs and the supply. There are other angles you could have taken to make this post more relevant.
I could, if it weren’t for the fact that I can’t be an expert at everything, for the very simple reason that my time is, in fact, not unlimited. Running my own company and having a social life and all that stuff is also kinda important.
Even then, this is a new release of an alternative operating system. It damn well belongs on OSNews. If this doesn’t deserve mention on OSNews, nothing does.
In the meantime, you’ve made exactly one submission (which got posted, actually) somewhere January this year. It seems a bit… Entitled to demand I spend more time on OSNews or demand that I post the news in the one specific way you like, while you contribute relatively little.
It’s completely okay to not contribute anything – I won’t hold it against you – but it does mean all this rings a bit hollow, wouldn’t you say?
No one is asking you to be, but are you saying you could find no way to provide any real commentary or analysis? I would suggest if you can’t, then perhaps it doesn’t pass the threshold.
But do please take seriously my suggestion of a OS Updates sidebar, because the really is the place for posts like there where there is little else to say about them.
And it would fill out the horizontal space on the page nicely.
No one is making you do this job. No one. If it isn’t fun anymore, if it is too much of a burden, then there is no shame in moving on.
For years I ran what was the #3 Turn Based Game site, and one day it wasn’t fun and I it felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. So I sold out my share to my partner and moved on. I have no regrets, and neither should you if you want to move on.
But if you want to keep going, then you should keep the bar high. You should never post just for the sake of posting.
Really? This appears to be a fairly minor bug fix release, does every minor update really deserve to be posted without meaningful commentary or analysis?
Actually I made two. The second one disappeared after I submitted it but I know it was submitted.
But that one that did get posted well only the link remained. It was completely rewritten with a different spin to your own agenda. This was completely your write to do, but I wasn’t crazy about it; and after my second submission just fell off the side of the world I decided not to submit for a while.
I had a long and probably too mean reply written for the rest of your post, and I decided to pull it. I personally think we should both just ignore the rest of your comment, and my (now non existent) reply to it.
I have said everything I can say. Please feel free to the last word.
Edited 2014-08-05 18:11 UTC
I would actually politely disagree with that, strictly from the point of view of UI/UX. If Thom were making 15 or 20 posts a day it would certainly serve a rather valuable purpose (i.e. separate the wheat from the chaff). But at the current posting levels (2 maybe 3 a day), Ill take what I can get – there seems to me to be little advantage to that kind of segmentation with so few posts.
And to Thom: I’m not bitching about the posting frequency, just making an observation. Everyone has a life to deal with. Besides, I like this little corner of the internet, its nice and cozy – if it became wildly popular I think it would lose some of its appeal, at least to me. This place is just the right size – its like Cheers
I tend to avoid noisy establishments in the real world so this is my kind of hangout.
Where everybody knows your naaamme, da da dada da…
Well from a UI/UX perspective it would be no different than the firehose that used to run on this site, and it would provide a place for the Sailfish/MorphOS/etc low content posts.
Let news and analysis be in the main area, and put OS Updates off in their own section, so that they don’t dilute the posts with actual content.
…when there was a lot more content to deal with…
…which, considering there are only a handful of posts each day, aren’t exactly crowding anything out that I can see. Why put things in two buckets when it all easily fits in one?
I agree if the posting volume goes up substantially the sidebar area is useful for the less discussion worthy stuff, but until it does I don’t see the point of bothering.
What, we’re not enough for you in that department?
An update is an update is an update