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[Forum] Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developersANN.lu
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Check this out: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041011-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1.

While they mention that MOS is pre-installed there, I'm assuming they'll not be concentrating their efforts on MOS stuff. (that's to be expected of course from a linux distro). So, while it is nice that Amiga-ish hardware finds it's way to people outside of the community, do you think that this is of any good for the Amiga platform in general? Or is it a sign that Amiga-like OSes just doesnt cut it for the 21st century?
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Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developers : Comment 11 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Oct-2004 15:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Ronald St-Maurice):
>full memory protection
MorphOS is stable, but yes a bad apps can nuke it. However, Quark
feature full MP. Let's hope real application will use in the future.

>multi user support
That was not mentioned in the list of comment 1

>translucency/alpha?
Has to be done, right.

>hardware OpenGL
Works starting MorphOS 1.4

>an Outlook clone
SimpleMail perfoms not to bad. But would requiere a lot of fixed IMO.
btw, I hate OutLook

>GUI builder and Visual IDE
MUIBuilderhas been release in 94.
Only lamers use that anyway.

>standardised UI window (open, save, find, etc...) AmigaOS HIG?
MUI rocks

>proper SATA and SCSI support
SCSI is supported for several chipset (Synbios/NCR)

>software RAID support (found on PCI EIDE controller cards)
There is a device with software support available for MorphOS

>an up-to-date web browser like Firefox or something based on KHTML
Right, all amiga browsers fail to do their job at some point.

>security audits (to see where could there be breaches)
With the lack of network stack it's quiet hard to hack MorphOS :-).

Anyway, let's speak about the subject: It's very cool that Freescale
offers free Pegasos II in order to increase PowerPC/AltiVec support in
OpenSource software.

Bye
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