Hi,
I bought my Peg for MorphOS, but I'd like to check out alternative OS', just in case, MorphOs will never become finished ...

****Linux(debian):
seems to have some major performance problems on the Peg. (V1 with April2).
Harddisk performance seems to have no DMA and starting an application like Openoffice takes even slightly longer than on my wrecked 350Mhz Celeron-Pc.
The Peg could be an ideal quiet linux server, but performance hast to be improved...

****QNX?
As Linux is 386-based (- I own an Alpha, so I know even a linux life that's worse than PPC), I'd like to check out QNX, which I read on the Genesi-Page. For 386, you can get the free evaluation, but nothing for PPC.
Maybe, it's just meant to be a cross-development and no self hosting OS for PPC ?
(I'm coder for QNX for 5 years, so I really would be interessed in that ....)

****MacOS ?
Is there any chance to run this with the performance like an equally powered Mac ?

.. I think MorphOS is the only OS, which really
works well for this hardware ..

bye

The Pegasos-1 is pretty bad in general for anything besides MorphOS.

If you would have done the same tests with a Pegasos-2 you
would have seen different results.

QNX for Pegasos is not ready, yet.

I honestly think, that even a Peg2 cannot keep up with an Athlon64-Pc of the same price ...
(Please don't shoot me !!!!)

I only know successfull PPC-linux stories on embedded systems, where the PPC has its advantages.
So I just wonder, if genesi really believes in a chance in the linux market.

The QNX-community is very small and there are even less hobby-coders than on morphos.
(I't just the very easy portability from linux to qnx, which gives a large number of ports.)


I think releasing morphos-parts on gpl would
be the right way to keep this OS alive and to keep Pegs attractive to buy.
BeOS's story showed some similarities, but I hope, MorphOs-People better understand when to change direction to survive ....

bye

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Just buy a Pegasos2 with G4...

Judas

I used to run linux nicely on my peg1.. but SDRAM and G3 with 100mhz FSB is slooow compared to 2.6.x kernel running on Peg2 G4 with 133fsb and DDR and Marvell Northbridge!

I even had Mac OSX running on my Peg1.. slow but very usable..

On my peg2 I run OSX Panther very well. I also run Morphos and prefer to use that over this nice

very fast Athlon Windows XP Pro box I built here as well!

magnetic

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I bet QNX community is larger that MorphOS one. Plus, maybe we have more hobby-coders, but they have more proffesional-coders. Also, QNX is more mature that MorphOS, and it has it target market, while MorphOS has not (ok, post-amiga-geeks, but this market shrinks every second).

[ Edited by opi on 2005/2/11 21:51 ]

Professional coders remain on Qnx, if they're on embedded applications. If they're using the Gui environment, many of the try to change to realtime linux. Driver support is better and you get around the enormous licenses, QNX charges ... ( Windows is bloody cheap against.)

But as a professional developer you don't care if a developer-CD costs 3000euros .. but as a hoppy-coder, you'll not even spent 300euros . that's right.