We will be shipping the Quad 970 Open Server Workstation in Q3 this year. We are looking at an upgrade Program for all existing Pegasos II and ODW users/developers. To participate one does not need to have purchased the original machine being traded-in (but, the ODW must be returned or the full price of $1500 must be paid). This is how we contemplate the opportunity today:

1. Order OSW for $799.
2. Return ODW.

I'm in. I have a few suggestions though:

The most valuable thing in a computer today is the data - the HDD.
How about returning everyhing but the harddrive and add up
like 25-40 USD (40/80 GB) to the final price? Besides, the 40
GB HDD I got with my ODW started b0rking anyway and is now in
use in another not-so-important machine.

It's alot easier for everyone to migrate if they get the new OSW
and just put in the old HDD and copy files over. I'm sure most
will pay this extra fee.

What do you guys think?

And what about non-ODW (but still Pegasos 2) owners?

Yes, PegasosPPC Users are included!

What about program for MorphOS + OSW? Or just Linux?

Of course MorphOS is included!

How do you expect to connect a legacy IDE disk to a SATA board? :)

I think you should return it all and we will provide you with a quad G5 system with a nice big SATA disk to replace it :)

If you have data on the disk the best thing to do is to make a backup before you relinquish the machine. I do not think this is too hard to ask. It would be a little complicated to use any software you installed on the ODW with the new hardware unless you had foresight enough to install Gentoo which has a very clean 64bit kernel with standard 32bit userland (this is excellent model for the platform we support).

So. I propose you do a backup. All ODW have a CD burner (ODW v1) or DVD burner (capable of writing 9GB DVD+R-DL discs in the ODW v2) with which you can do this.

mmm... what a dilemna...
so if i understood it well, i'd be able to get an OSW for about 800$ and send back my Pegasos2 board. That's a nice offer, thanks for it guys. My concern is that i'd love to get my hands on a powerful linux workstation with such yummy specs, but i'd miss my pegasos2 for MorphOS. So if MorphOS get supported on the OSW i'd definately go for the upgrade.

Very nice.



A Trade-Up for their complete system?
There should be a list of what needs to be sent in.

So, how do you expect to connect a DVD/RW?

This is a very generous offer from Genesi.
Thank you very much for this!
To be honest its so generous that I don't understand it.

Like all the others, I'm eagerly waiting for the OSW.
But frankly I would like to keep the ODW to continue testing and develping for the G4. So I'm not voting.

Cheers

So MorphOS DOES run on this thing????? Shoot count me in then for sure!

Same as Soundsquare...
Even if I'm really interested by the OSW/PegasosIII, I would like to also keep my Pegasos II (I love this computer).

So I voted "no" to the question about an exchange
(but would vote "yes" for having a new OSW in addition of my PegII).

And... I still hope having one with my OSW developers project proposal ;-)

So, without a PegasosII or ODW exchange :
- what would be the price of a PegasosIII+CPUs board ?
- what would be the price of a OSW computer ? (is it 1500$ ?)

I am with SoundSquare, Gunnar & Geoffrey_Charra

I love my Pegasos II G4 system will keep it and buy a new OSW



nels

I would LOVE to see MOS on the OSW.

But, if MorphOS should run on the OSW, the MOS developpers would have to create a new boot.img with "all" drivers for the new hardware components... and what about a GFX card? The latest cards supported by MOS are currently Ati Radeon R2xx chipsets... anyone seen a Radeon R2xx for PCIe? It is kind of unlikely that there will third-party drivers for any newer Ati GFX card.

If I consider the "speed" of development for MOS in the past few years I can hardly believe that MOS will run on the OSW from the beginning. And I will not buy a OSW until MOS runs on it, sorry.