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MorphOS moves x64 - Raion - 01-15-2020
Twitter user chainq showed off a Ryzen powered MorphOS.
I can't say I'm very enthusiastic about MorphOS anymore but I feel the relevancy of such a move is rather... Ineffectual? MorphOS has little memory protection, security, and has no major performance advantages over AROS, or Linux, or anything else. Putting it centre stage will just underline the weaknesses, especially considering the license costs.
I think a better option would have been to partner with Raptor, much like they did with Genesi years prior.
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - GeekLucanis - 01-16-2020
Id be willing to try it on a nonmain rig
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - soviet - 01-16-2020
I have morphos on my G5, is very fast. But theres no SMP support nor memory protection.
Also have very little software, and its not cheap to buy.
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - shrek - 01-17-2020
I tried it on my PowerBook G4 and it is quite a bit faster than OS X and Ubuntu. But it’s useless to me even as a toy. Having very little software is a drawback but not a showstopper for me. What I hate about it is the dumb licensing and the fact that it slows down after 30 minutes, not giving me a chance to even explore the OS sufficiently before having to reboot. I’m also not going to pay $87 for a hobby OS I’ll barely use. And when you add to this the fact that the license isn’t transferable to a different machine and will be invalidated by simple hardware failures like a bad battery (very common in 15-20 year old machines) then I’m not willing to pay a dime for it. DRM sucks and in a project this niche it only serves to turn away potential users and developers.
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - soviet - 01-18-2020
(01-17-2020, 08:20 PM)shrek Wrote: I tried it on my PowerBook G4 and it is quite a bit faster than OS X and Ubuntu. But it’s useless to me even as a toy. Having very little software is a drawback but not a showstopper for me. What I hate about it is the dumb licensing and the fact that it slows down after 30 minutes, not giving me a chance to even explore the OS sufficiently before having to reboot. I’m also not going to pay $87 for a hobby OS I’ll barely use. And when you add to this the fact that the license isn’t transferable to a different machine and will be invalidated by simple hardware failures like a bad battery (very common in 15-20 year old machines) then I’m not willing to pay a dime for it. DRM sucks and in a project this niche it only serves to turn away potential users and developers.
Yes that's true i don't registered because for just a hobby os is to much money for me.
About the hardware failure if your machine dies you can ask the team to replace the registration, they will do it only that the old computer will lost the license .
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - micrex22 - 04-27-2020
One complaint I had in regards to it was no support for non-Apple PowerPC based machines; it'd be nice to run it on more devices.
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - jkdsteve - 11-09-2021
If you think MorphOS is expensive, don't look at AmigaOS4.....is a big buy in if you want 5 year old PPC hardware ;-)
The move to x64 makes no sense to me either, I suppose there's a chance for more software to be ported?
RE: MorphOS moves x64 - Shiunbird - 11-10-2021
I have it running on my Power Mac G4 and I find quite absurd to see how snappy it is. It reminds me of the world of bloat we live in.
I considered many times paying for it, just for the sake of keeping the project alive.
I think it makes sense to move it to 64 bit. I'd only assume that the team behind it enjoys working on it and are pretty aware that the hardware they support will end up failing sooner or later. They probably eat their own dog food.
Anything ported to different platforms always get a big thumbs up from me.