As I wrote there would be a bit more detailed post about the next MorphOS release, here it is...


The idea is MorphOS 3.0 would be the next public version and will introduce support for PowerBook (only 15" and 17" PowerBook5,6-5,9 which are the two latest revisions RevD and RevE):

- It will be a completely *free* (as in money free, nobody would have to pay) upgrade for already registered users.
- There will probably be some experimental wireless support for a few external cardbus cards featuring WPA/WPA2. That was demonstrated in Essen.
- There will be enhanced 3D drivers for the R2xx range of Radeon cards
- Proper use of AGP bus has been added where reasonable and available, helping on some low vmem issues with Mac mini for example
- There will be a builtin CD/DVD recording tool named Jalapeno.
- There will be various other enhancements which are not disclosed yet.

As a final note, G5 iMac/PowerMac support will not be released anytime soon. It was just some experiment. No development work is done on it. The focus is now on bug fixing and implementing remaining features for 3.0.

And, BTW, the MorphOS SDK was updated a few hours ago.
See http://www.morphos-team.net/news.html

Thank you foryour posting - now everybody should know what to expect for the next time. Sounds pretty promising. Will start to look for a good chance to buy a Powerbook over the next months.

jacadcaps,
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Thanks for the info even if it makes me sad. I did not buy one of the very last models because it seems they are the ones that suffer more about problems like the display issue..

@miky

We've always been saying we want to support 1.67GHz models.

Thanks for the information

@Henes

It's not specified but I suppose that Rev D&E with NVidia cards will not be supported right?

Thanks
Kamel

> It's not specified but I suppose that Rev D&E with NVidia cards will not
> be supported right?

It is specified:

"only 15" and 17""

Well that mean the Powerbook G4 wiki is wrong as it state that it could be either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4

Kamel

We will support 5,6 to 5,9 models. The 12'' are 6,x.

Thanks

Kamel

A better link :
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/index-powerbook-g4.html

> - There will be enhanced 3D drivers for the R2xx range of Radeon cards
> [...]
> - There will be various other enhancements which are not disclosed yet.

Like R300 3D drivers? :-)

> that mean the Powerbook G4 wiki is wrong as it state that it could be either.

No, it just means that Wikipedia is not specific enough.

"featuring WPA/WPA2" means what exactly?
Can I expect that CCMP and EAP-TLS over WPA2 Enterprise will work?

WONDERFUL NEWS!

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So now it's just 12 months minus 2 days left then! Wohoo!

takemehomegrandma,
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Personally I've neve dreamed about a next to come x86 porting, so I'd like to ask: what you all see more sad? This or the fact that also G5 support will not be released anytime soon and has to be considered just some experiment?

[ Edited by Miky060 22.09.2011 - 13:27 ]

Sad for me is talking again and again for more hardware when for christ sake we already have huge database of HW! Do we never have enough? What would we do after G5 release? Moan about ARM, x86? Come on and let's focus on MorphOS itself.

Mac PPC HW is not viable in the long run. It's a good news to know that new architectures are planned. For now Mac HW are more than enough, what we need is more software, a "dream" would be a killer app...

Kamel
PS hopefully I'll get a second hand G4 Powerbook soon...

pampers,
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Precisely - "Live your life everday as if it were your last day".
Wile a good share of dreaming and future planning is good though, it is wise to use now what is actually available today.

My personal opinion is that porting MorphOS to a totally new architecture (read x86 in all its millions version of motherboards an cpus..) is much much much more complicated than just develop a stable version on G5 Powermacs. We're still speaking about a PowerPC CPU so it's not really a "porting", it's a much more achievable/doable thing. In my opinion speaking about the possibility to port a hobbist OS with little developer team to a totally new architecture like x86.. yes THAT is a DREAM!

If x86 is the target architecture I see no problem there. It's just a matter of selecting a few HW configurations. Just do what Apple do. If I were the MOS Team, I will even sell the HW myself so you know that it'll work and be supported. (or work with an HW vendor)
The only drawback is that many will want to keep their X86 box and will want Morphos to just work on it.
Others will just do like the "Hackintosh team".

But is x86 even mentioned somewhere?

Kamel

[ Edité par kamelito 22.09.2011 - 17:11 ]

Everyone should enjoy MorphOS on his current hardware. At least I'm doing that.

analogkid,
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signed.
Used G4 MacHW is really cheap and affordable (starts at 29€ at ebay) and power is plenty enough for everydays use.
Much more important, in my opinion, is to have unique and high quality software and games.
It already exists a X86 Amiga like OS for free, what should be the reasons for one prefering MorphOS instead of and pay for it?

Arexx and legacy apps. Custom workbench..OWB and MPayer. Have a Dual boot and use the Mac side rarely. Morph made by pros for pros. I have years if ever to reach potential of MorphOS. I am registered with a macmini and soon a PowerBook.
Keep flying all