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"After noodling around with MorphOS for about 30 minutes, you will notice a pop-up window that asks you to register, and then the system will become unbearably

by wmt 12y ago

"After noodling around with MorphOS for about 30 minutes, you will notice a pop-up window that asks you to register, and then the system will become unbearably slow. This is where MorphOS reminds you that it is not free software." What a letdown at the very end of the article. It would've been nice to mention this a bit earlier, like saying "trial version" in the title.

pkaye 12y ago
The MorphOS license cost 3x more than the value of my old G4 laptop.
SwellJoe 12y ago
I was an Amiga fanatic. Spent every penny I had on my first Amiga (and then again on my second Amiga), and loved everything about it. But, here's the thing: Linux, which I discovered not even a year after giving up on the Amiga (I bought a Windows 95 PC in 1995, and mostly switched to Linux as my primary OS the same year), is (nearly) everything I ever loved about Amiga...only moreso. It has a fantastic user community, even better than the Amiga, that focuses on great technology over marketing. It has a great developer community, with even more available code to study (and in fact, a lot of the stuff I liked most on the Amiga was derived from UNIX utilities). And, it has a hacker mentality above all else...doing novel things with Linux is expected, respected, and supported (just as it was on the Amiga and the C64 before it). The only thing I've never quite gotten from Linux was the way the Amiga always treated the arts as a valuable part of the computing equation. Sound and graphics Just Worked. Linux has had an awful, effectively unusable, sound subsystem for its entire history...and still does, to this day. I recorded more music with my Amigas in maybe four or five years than I have in nearly 20 years of Linux use (I still reboot into Windows to record music). Anyway, my point is that I loved my Amigas. But, it's not something I want to use again. I'm impressed that a small team is delivering a functional Amiga OS clone, but it's not an OS that I would want to use daily or develop for. The fact that it's not Open Source is just one more reason why I wouldn't have any interest in it.

by wmt 12y ago

pkaye 12y ago

The MorphOS license cost 3x more than the value of my old G4 laptop.

SwellJoe 12y ago

I was an Amiga fanatic. Spent every penny I had on my first Amiga (and then again on my second Amiga), and loved everything about it. But, here's the thing: Linux, which I discovered not even a year after giving up on the Amiga (I bought a Windows 95 PC in 1995, and mostly switched to Linux as my primary OS the same year), is (nearly) everything I ever loved about Amiga...only moreso. It has a fantastic user community, even better than the Amiga, that focuses on great technology over marketing. It has a great developer community, with even more available code to study (and in fact, a lot of the stuff I liked most on the Amiga was derived from UNIX utilities). And, it has a hacker mentality above all else...doing novel things with Linux is expected, respected, and supported (just as it was on the Amiga and the C64 before it). The only thing I've never quite gotten from Linux was the way the Amiga always treated the arts as a valuable part of the computing equation. Sound and graphics Just Worked. Linux has had an awful, effectively unusable, sound subsystem for its entire history...and still does, to this day. I recorded more music with my Amigas in maybe four or five years than I have in nearly 20 years of Linux use (I still reboot into Windows to record music). Anyway, my point is that I loved my Amigas. But, it's not something I want to use again. I'm impressed that a small team is delivering a functional Amiga OS clone, but it's not an OS that I would want to use daily or develop for. The fact that it's not Open Source is just one more reason why I wouldn't have any interest in it.