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Just watching the video presentation at Alchimie (available
here) - a detailed expose/roadmap of upcoming features in MorphOS 3.x! (EDIT: not necessarily to be included in 3.0)
Are Helios, FUSE, Grunch and Magicbeacon to become integrated into the distribution? If so kudos to YomGui, Leif and Geit.
SMBFS via fuse sounds interesting, being presumably more up-to-date (and presumably faster) than the current 68k version. Any indicative benchmarks available yet? ;)
Nice to see airport support mentioned, thought I was going to have to buy a pcmcia wifi card again. Does the support include 802.11g? If not, do 802.11g capable cards fall back to 802.11b, or are these cards unsupported in any mode?
An impressive array of monitoring (cpu temp, fan speed, battery level) and control (cpu speed, graphics card power mode, brightness/keyboard light control, modem/nic/hdd powerdown...) - far more than I would have hoped for in an initial release!
New pdf viewer too, the layout looks a lot better than the current one. If based on a recent version of Poppler as the source, it should incorporate changes from xpdf 3.02 (ie support for pdf v1.6 and 1.7) too!
Can't wait to explore the new features which make it into 3.0 - I'm excited about Christmas/New year for the first time in ages!
From Drako's posting on AW.net:
Quote:
General News:
- Support the PowerBook G4 (models 5.6 to 5.9).
- Transfers AGP platforms supporting it (macs).
- Drivers WiFi and integration with the TCP / IP: Altheros5000, Airport.
- Drivers SATA and SCSI (Symbios) function on PowerMac G4.
- Faster 3D Drivers (VBO), more complete support r300 (Radeon 9500 to 9800);
- Integration Layer Firewire Helios,
- Improved systems components: MUI, Ambient, Multiview, HDConfig, mount.library ...
- New applications: FTP / SFTP, software CD / DVD, new PDF reader, Text Editor modern
- File System: NTFS3G (writing material), SMBFS (64 bits), SSHFS (SFTP transparent), ICEF, ...
News related to the PowerBook:
- Touchpad and gestures (scroling, right ,...).
- Specifics on the keyboard (Fn, brightness keys ,...).
- Support for various graphic tiles (15 ", 17" and variations ...).
- Port Cardbus (PCMCIA).
- Drivers Atheros5k (via Cardbus) Airport.
- Layer WPA/WPA2 (wpa_supplicant) in collaboration with AROS.
- Monitoring of sensors, fan speed, battery level, temperature, ...
- 3D Driver R300 (Radeon 9700 for PowerBook).
- Management of controlled energy components and sensors based on user preferences (processor speed, low power mode of the graphics card, disable the modem, network, brightness, backlight keyboard, power down the hard disk. ..).
System components:
- Ambient: a transparent panel, under docks and plugins, video thumbnails, ...
- MUI: effect of disabling improved rendering of part of the active object configurable Arrange tab, ...
- Multiview: integration of more new features and formats.
- HDConfig / mount.library: better management of mac partition tables.
- Cairo / Pixman / Fontconfig provided with the system.
- MagicBeacon: visual notifications on different types of events (new mail, download finished, dvd inserted ,...), highly configurable.
- Grunch: package manager.
EDIT: changed "MorphOS 3.0" to read "MorphOS 3.x" as per presentation slide #2
EDIT: reworded to remove implications of inclusion in 3.0.
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