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

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 It's the independent PPC OS designed for outdated Apple systems like G4 PowerBooks (5,6; 5,7; 5,8; or 5,9) and eMacs (1.25 GHz/1.42 GHz) and PPC Mac Minis, and some G4 PowerMac models (depends on graphics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."

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Re:Another weakness

[digitig]

Sorry to upset your cosy "FOSS is perfect so all criticism must be a lie" world, but it's true. When I boot it runs fine, but gradually slows down and hangs after about 20 minutes. It's still live -- if I move the mouse then the cursor will jump every couple of minutes -- but it's unusable. The REISUB trick sometimes works, but that's still a reboot. I've tried disabling Unity and switching to classic Gnome with no effects in the hope it was a video driver problem, but to no effect, so I'm still investigating. (The WiFi issue is just that it's a WinModem than I can't get working under Linux, but I've not put in much effort because the router is about a foot away so it's easier to use an Ethernet connection.)