[News] Pegasos Event in Washington, DC | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 02:26 GMT by Some Pegasos Guy | 14 comments View flat View list |
Genesi is coming to the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, DC on October 18th to present it's PowerPC based computer platform - the Pegasos!
Genesi is coming to the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, DC on October 18th to present it's PowerPC based computer platform - the Pegasos!
The Pegasos will be the highlight of this event. This is the latest model from Genesi - and supports both G3 and G4 PowerPC processors. The Pegasos is a highly affordable computer system based on the CHRP standard and supports at least seven flavors of Linux including Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Yellow Dog and others.
To compliment the Pegasos and provide a complete solution, Genesi has developed MorphOS - a preemptive multitasking operating system. MorphOS combines a modest footprint with scalability, high performance, and amazing ease of use for developers and end users. Its beautifully designed interface and modular object-oriented design offers a modern solution out of the box.
Some operating systems work through emulation including Amiga and Macintosh, and other operating systems such as QNX, OpenBeOS and NewOS are under development already.
You are invited to see our presentations and have actual hands-on experience with the Pegasos system. We'll have many machines available showing you the latest operating systems, applications, networking, Internet solutions and games.
So come to the Hilton Garden Inn convienently located at the McPherson Square Metro Stop (Orange and Blue lines). The event is scheduled from 10am to 4pm on Saturday the 18th of October. We'll see you there!
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Comment 1 | stew | | 26-Sep-2003 01:22 GMT |
Comment 2 | Kjetil | | 26-Sep-2003 05:56 GMT |
Comment 3 | bbrv | Registered user | 26-Sep-2003 10:52 GMT |
Comment 4 | gz | | 26-Sep-2003 16:38 GMT |
Comment 5 | hooligan/dcs | Registered user | 26-Sep-2003 18:57 GMT |
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Pegasos Event in Washington, DC : Comment 6 of 14 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Daniel Miller on 26-Sep-2003 21:28 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (gz): gz says:
> Hopefully someday the world will see a pegasos system up to latest
> industry standard in terms of os functionality aswell as in hardware.
In a lot of ways MorphOS is better than Windows, Linux, and Mac right now. For example, to begin at the beginning, the boot time is quicker. To continue, the responsiveness is superior. Windows and Linux I know this personally. For Mac, I know this because we had expert Mac users who came over to the Genesi stand at Amigafest Dayton and said so (we timed the boot and demoed MPlayer, and ran other stuff).
So when you talk about "OS functionality" we're doing okay in most ways. MPlayer and Kaya were big steps. There are other things like the TCP/IP stack that are very close now. Printer support is being improved. We are on the brink of an alternative platform that stands to be a giant slayer. I am not spinning, it is that good. I don't know your specifics gz, but if you go see a Pegasos demo you will see what I mean.
Now there are things like apps where Pegasos and MorphOS are not competitive right now. We can't have the zillion apps available for Windows or Linux or Mac now. But this is not the crucial test, for apps it is just important that we can do the stuff that people need or want to do. For example we don't need a selection of thousands of games like Windows, we just need a few good games. Same thing for word processors. You can fault MorphOS for not having as many apps as Windows all day long. But these are apps, not OS functionality. |
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