I think that the reason they are still using other miners Operating Systems is because their software is not ready yet, you can imagine how scarce Linux devs must be these days considering how everyone just wants to push out a good fat solidity.
I saw BTCDrak did fork the S9 OS and he is probably working man-alone trying to get this thing ready in time for release so this would also explain the reluctance to allow these things into the wild.
Ironic the times we live in where Engineers are available by the dozen but a REAL dev is hard to come by.
Anyway to be honest I don't give a crap what the user interface looks like, as long as these things hash like the clappers and turn off when they hit 105 degrees.
Pfffffft I feel this is a supposed religious experience. I am supposed to have faith in certain people... F it show me the goods.
when I was a kid..there was an honest to god UFO at sunset in town...it sat there...saucer-shaped with 3 proportionally placed eye-shaped windows...
So for the first 15 min or so ..people could not believe it was a UFO..the last 25 min it sat there people we're trying to figure out the best way to interact with
whatever when it landed (this is Minnesota.....I suspect someone would have offered potluck)..this was adults talking..I was a kid and could listen in...
IT was a weather balloon ....made into the shape of a UFO saucer, buy upper atmosphere winds pulling it into the shape of a saucer
the supposed windows were the USA in large letters on the side (1960's) again proportional
the top and bottom giant letters scrunched up in the saucer shape.....making the perfect eye-shaped windows..damn convincing to a whole town for 40 min so...
my point is a variety of folk can look at something with disbelief....then after a point of time accept it as fact...just to find out it was not factual at all
but anyway, the point is ....even with photo's stuff is not always what it seems....all the info...even compared to the above on this thread is flimsy
but even with a unit demo (like BFL) the particular product may never come to pass on a pre-order....like BFL never shipped in mass ...like KNC miners..who
took the pre-order money, built data halls with it and mined for 4-5 months ..then shipped the pre-oder Neptunes 7-8 months late that never ROI'd
We have dozens of cases of this happening (at least since I got in from 2013 on)
good intentions are great, hope is OK....proof is what is needed...and still...no Unicorn proof that I can tell yet on these miners
hopefuly, the above is a cautionary tale and the stuff exists....but as my UFO example above...sometimes it just ain't so!
Yes, Amen.
Its not proofed scam.
And its not proofed that a delivery will ever happen
And its not proofed that they maybe just assembled 20 testmachines with already known chips to make a -demo show- (UFO) for pre-order needs.
Even if each testmachine would be 10.000 USD - after pre-order they would be fine.
And like said from my very first post in here: We bought 20 to test and we want to support them, but we did not bough 100 or more pcs.
If we loose them its sad, but we dont count with them anyways.
But if we get them we hopefull have another competitor on the market.
I am in contact with Scott and I am waiting for a reply for visiting a testmachine in spain.
Hopefull he will get back to me after weekend.
I will visit this testmachine if possible and hopefull its not the UFO-story 
(I know this story, too. Even Matt Groening in his famous "Simpsons" made a story about the fake UFO news from USA. Maybe I am wrong - anyways - fun.)
