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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 13-Sep-2004 13:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 62 (priest): > I just read a comment from AOS4 and MOS user. He said AOS4 is more stable and
> complete.
I too have both Pegasos (several of them ;-) ) and a A1 XE G4 with the latest public release of OS4. My comment on that statement above is that it's nothing but complete bullsh!t (sorry for the harsh wordings).
I have followed MorphOS development with my own eyes since version 1.0. Based of my *feeling* (not scientifically measured in any way) about the stability of OS4, I would rate it somewhere in between MorphOS 1.0 and 1.2. Regarding the "completeness" of the two; I just wrote the following on moobunny:
The OS4 team seems to have started from another end than the MorphOS team. The MorphOS developers started with the heavy but invisible "core things", writing all key components from scratch, PPC native, with modern, legacy free code, and making sure that MorphOS is really Amiga compatible, with great emulation, etc, etc. The OS4 team seems to have started with these little applications, the things that is visible to the user, like TCP/IP, tools and utilities known from the AmigaOS 3.x discs (of which many probably are exactly the same 68k binaries as on these discs (hear that priest: here is at least one "bluey" who believes that there are a lot of AmigaOS 68k binaries in OS4 - for good and bad)), but they still have many of the "heavier" things on their to-do list, thus OS4 still lacks a lot of important things found only in MorphOS ATM. At least that is my analysis of the two approaches.
I own both systems, and I wish the best of luck to both teams. However, I like the MorphOS design better; through it's design I believe that we will see things on MorphOS not possible with the OS4 approach, and I think it's safe to say that MorphOS is years ahead of OS4 ATM. How this will develop in the future will be interesting to follow. |
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