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MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs
An anonymous reader writes "The MorphOS Team has released version 2.5 of its PPC computer-only operating system. The new version extends its support of the PPC Mac range to include the eMac, which was the 2002-2006 Mac model consisting of a CRT monitor and computer in a single housing. MorphOS previously and continues to support the PPC Mac mini, as well as the Pegasos and Efika niche computers (all discontinued but available second-hand). MorphOS includes a web browser and TCP/IP stack and a few traditional baseline OS-associated apps among its features. Further software is available from a range of online repositories. MorphOS 2.5 comes on a bootable 30-minute demo live CD ISO which may also be installed. The ISO is available for free download by anyone. The 30-minute limit is removed by online purchase of registration/key file which is available for a limited period for the sum of 111 euros to celebrate the launch of this version."
111 Euros means about $2000 in US dollars because of the weak US currency.
111 Euro is $132.82, not anywhere near $2000. Right now, the Euro to US$ conversion is very good due to the general state of the European economy.
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And supports more hardware. Ubuntu PPC on a Mac G4 works just the same, is a better CD/DVD burner than Tiger and supports hardware that Mac OS X doesn't.
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Cost has been the undoing of AmigaOS for many years...
When i first got an Amiga, it was because the machine was relatively cheap while still being pretty capable. It was capable of gaming with the simplicity of a console, while also having an OS allowing serious and/or educational work to be done... You could buy one for your kids and they would enjoy playing games on it, but could also hook up a printer and do their school work.
However, once i started trying to get the amiga online that all fell apart... Even simple things like a tcp stack, telnet client or web browser cost money and all these costs soon added up. After a while it simply wasn't worth keeping the Amiga anymore.
More recently, i tried MorphOS on a mac mini and found it fun to play with for a few minutes, but certainly not worth 111 euro.. Same goes for AmigaOS 4, it's certainly not worth the price of the OS plus having to buy low spec but relatively expensive hardware to run it on.
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you could consider AROS to be intel-based although it runs on other architectures :)
It is mathematically undefined more expensive than Linux