Unfortunately, there's no easy way at all of getting AmigaOS 4.1 working on a G4 PPC Mac. I know that there's a very unofficial bootloader called "Moana" that would allow AmigaOS 4 booting on a G4 Mac Mini, but due to lack of drivers, it's not much more useful than as a conversation piece, or a means of staring at Workbench but not being able to do squat with it.intric8 wrote: I can't help but wonder if slapping 4.1 on a G4 PPC would have gained you a similar experience? Or is that not possible and what MorphOS is for?
If Hyperion actually decided to write drivers to support AmigaOS on Mac PPC hardware much like how MorphOS does, it may also increase adoption of AmigaOS somewhat, but at the same time would also undermine the Amiga X line. Yet on the other hand, Amiga X machines are expensive as hell for many, while PPC Macs can be had for practically a song on a site like eBay. It's quite the conundrum here to try and figure the best route to take.
While I find MorphOS to work well enough on my Mac Mini, there are still a couple of bumps in the road even there. Odyssey is a decent enough web browser if you use mobile sites, but as icbrkr mentioned, we need something better than that; a Firefox port would help immensely. A port of LibreOffice for both AmigaOS 4 (and MorphOS and AROS!) would be an immense boost as well.
(Side note icbrkr: Have you tried out NetSurf on AmigaOS?)
Personally, I really do want to see AmigaOS move up the ladder more and gain more modern trimmings. I really want to see it make some kind of headway. The OS market is slowly beginning to diversify once again as people discover alternatives to Windows, and AmigaOS, as well as Amiga-like OSes, deserve a chance in the spotlight as well. But with all of these issues at hand that need fixing, that will be a hell of an uphill battle. And from a philosophical standpoint, this is why I personally feel that AmigaOS needs to be open sourced and badly. Having it opened to the community will allow rapid progress to be made, with many eyes able to catch and fix bugs. It's only the logical choice to go with; AROS is open source and benefits from being such. MorphOS and AmigaOS should follow suit.