Some weeks ago the popular AROS distribution VmwAROS has changed name into Icaros Desktop, for two reasons: to avoid confusion with VMware-related products, and to better focus on the "Live" version, which runs on top of real hardware. This new release, Icaros Desktop 1.1, the first with the new name, has got many enhancements over the previous ones.
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Installing it is quite easy, worked first time for me... It does require you to reboot after you partition, and on the next boot it formats/installs but booting doesn't take very long.
What i would really like to see however, is a list of supported cards for the various drivers... I tried both the ATI and nVidia boot options on different machines and nothing worked.. I had a Radeon x1600, nVidia 8600 and Mobility Radeon in a Dell C610 laptop, none of which worked except with the generic (slow) vesa drivers.
Also the AC97 sound driver causes a noise (like binary catted to /dev/dsp) on the dell c610 followed by a crash.
I have a supported nic and a supported soundcard (emu10k is meant to be the best supported), would be good to get a machine running with everything working.
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There is only support for Prism II chipset based devices. I really wish more of the fringe/alternative OS developers would focus on WIFI. Personally I think now-a-days wired Ethernet should be secondary. What good is a fast, small, portable OS without wireless?
I would love to put AROS or Haiku on my Aspire ONE, or on an older laptop. I do realize that wireless is fairly difficult to reverse engineer and develop (look how long it took for reliable Linux wifi), but surely someone could use the Linux code for these devices to port to another platform.
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Wireless networking support is essential for any desktop operating system.
For Haiku there is a bounty. http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/wireless-network-stack-bounty
Someone has started working on it. Using code from FreeBSD. Linux code probably isn't working, because of the incompatible to everything GPL license. http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/activity/haiku-wifi
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Haiku is under the MIT License
AROS is under the AROS Public License http://aros.sourceforge.net/license.html
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Yes, I agree that AROS needs more wireless network drivers. On the ethernet side things are getting better, but on the wireless one we're stuck to 5 years ago. Unluckily we lack the manpower to develop everything, so if someone with proper competences would joint the project, it would be really great.
And, well, we already have an Atom platform supported, the iMica from CluterUK Developments. This should work as code-base for netbooks but, also here, we need someone that would code the necessary GMA950, sound and ethernet/wireless devices. Having Icaros running on a netbook would finally convince me to buy one =)
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It's got the web browser. It just lacks meaningful wireless support (though ancient Prism II-based cards are supported)
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