Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1289 from 2003/2/25
From: binaryriot
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I would like to read some real news from the MorphOS-Team, nothing like "two weeks more" or "when it's done" or funny(not) picture without any relevance.
Its zero help to stir up trouble by opening another thread like this where ppl have not much left of options than to express disappointment about the still not released MorphOS 2.0. This brings us nowhere really. Hence I answered magnetic with a (IMHO funny) picture (which also leaks a MorphOS 2.0 feature (again), really it does!).
Noone else than the MorphOS team members themself know better that 2.0 needs to be released better yesterday than tomorrow and everyone in the team does its best to get remaining issues resolved as quickly as possible. You really don't want a release like Papyrus where you pay much money and and only get some 30% working software.
I hope I don't leak too much now (else laire or bigfoot will cut my head off ;) ), but in our bugtracker there are still tons of open issues (and new ones get added regulary too)... I don't think all of them can be fixed before the release anymore and many of them will be postboned for a 2.1 update. But at least the really scary and known ones *need* to be fixed before the MorphOS Team can get a copy of MorphOS 2.0 out to the users who want to buy it. And usually bugs don't resolve magically on its own (only sometimes they do... which can be scary).
Anyway... there were quite recent presentations (aka news and information) by team members in Germany (by Geit, afaik you even had the chance to try it out yourself there) and France (by Fab1) with coverage on miscellaneous websites, even screenshots. I don't know how more news we can get out there (these presentations actually 'leaked' more than I personally wished f.ex.).
As some ppl in this thread already pointed out the real issue is not the not yet released OS update, but the missing 'big' Applications... MorphOS 2.0 will be no magic spell that fixes these issues, u know. All the important apps I use these days daily under MorphOS 2.0 I also used under MorphOS 1.4.x already.. so nothing changed for me really. Sure there are tons improvements which will make your life more comfortable (and are worth waiting for), but nothing which one really needs to make use of the system. If MorphOS 1.4.x and the apps you can install on it are not enough for your important needs then this will not fundamentally change with 2.0 either... After the first phase of trying out new things in the OS is over and you end up in daily routine again you'll understand this.
I hope noone will get offended by my open words. Please stay a bit more patience. We are almost there... or '2 more weeks' like we prefer to say (if you notice for 1.5-2 weeks noone of the Team Members used this slogan then you can calculate the release date ;) ).
with best regards,
tokai
(if you find a typo you can keep it :) )