Hello,
I am new to both the peg and morphos. BUt the thing is I'm looking for a new computer, I'm not afraid of the command line having worked on the gnome desktop enviroment for many years but I have a few questions.
1) are there good developer tools
2) is the future of morphos & peg stable (please an honest answer I don't have that much money and I want a system that can stay up todate)
3) what are the advantages of morphos over say a mac or pc based os
4) office software any if so what

Thank you very much in advance
Woody

[ Edited by bswood on 2005/5/28 14:11 ]

*bump*
anyone

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I'll let somebody else answer this. It might also depend on what *exactly* you mean by "good"!


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Who knows? Both the Pegasos and the MorphOS projects have had some serious setbacks during the last years. The Pegasos seems to be doing fine now, and MorphOS also seems to have recovered. One could perhaps figure that the bubble that burst blew out all bad things, which makes what is being built today more solid and stronger. But there is no way of knowing for sure!

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You won't probably find any OS as lean, clean and mean as MorphOS. However, if you are a regular desktop user, wanting to browse the web and use modern productivity software, then you'd better look at other alternatives, like Linux (which also runs on the Pegasos), Mac OS (which runs on the Pegasos under "Mac on Linux") or PC.

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The only MorphOS office suite of today that I am aware of is Papyrus office. It is also available for other OS's. Of course, you could also use the old Amiga office programs ...

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Depends on what is considered good. There is no IDE available but GCC with good text editor is perfect to me.

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For MorphOS and Peg yes. And this is my honest answer. But the past has shown the future can change rapidly. The road *is* bumpy.

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MUI. That is GUI toolkit which is in many areas better than equivalents on other platforms. But it also lacks on many areas which are de facto standard on other platforms.

But I dont really know. Is there something that could be done better in other OS'es?

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Not really. There is Papyrus Office and Pagestream but I dont know how good they are. Nothing comparable to MS Word still.

@bswood,

if you are a C/C++ developer and you want to explore your computer then you are in the right spot.
MorphOS and LinuxPPC will help you to learn a LOT more than in a i386/Win32 world.

I worked on different OS's, few of them are Solaris,UnixAIX,Linux,MacOSX,WindowsXP ... but what I like the most called just MorphOS...