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MorphOS 3.0 Released: Refusing To Let the PPC Desktop OS Die Gracefully

Posted by timothy on from the ultimate-nagware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Version 3.0 of MorphOS has been released. It's the independent PPC OS designed for outdated Apple systems like G4 PowerBooks (5,6; 5,7; 5,8; or 5,9) and eMacs (1.25 GHz/1.42 GHz) and PPC Mac Minis, and some G4 PowerMac models (depends on graphics hardware). It further runs on discontinued and niche Genesi desktop systems (Pegasos) and the stunted 128-megabyte-of-RAM tiny Efika. MorphOS is a nice-looking, low-resource, and nimble OS that can't match the capabilities of current Windows, Mac, and Linux. Its installation/live CD is free without caveat, and runs for 30 minutes at a time, as many times as you like. You may purchase MorphOS to remove the time limit. A particular weakness of MorphOS is its lack of support for wireless networking."

4 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Another weakness by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 5, Insightful

    2 words - Why bother? Alternatively just one word - Why?

  2. I would say.. by gallondr00nk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    free without caveat

    only being able to use the free version for 30 minutes at a time is a pretty fucking large caveat.

  3. Re:Another weakness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    pay more for the OS than the obsolete computer is worth.

    what's wrong with running debian on these things?

  4. Re:Another weakness by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously. I have an old PowerBook G4 that I still use on a weekly basis to run a particular piece of old software, but I thought it might be fun to fool around with a different OS for a few bucks. At €111.11, it's well beyond the "let's have some fun with something different" range.