As stated on their website, "AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas." ArosMax is a version of Aros that can be run from within a Windows environment for easy evaluation. 
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that there are not 1 but 2 TCP/IP stacks being worked on for AROS at this moment.
And the "Workbench Screen" colour bug is fixed in the latest nightly build. Just replace the ISO file with the new one and voilą. http://www.aros.org/download.php#nightly-builds
For the kind words!
AROS needs more people to help out.
Coders, Translators, Documentation Writers, Donators to bounties etc.
Please visit http://www.aros-exec.org for more info.
If they make this native version stable, I mean without crashing stable, at least often... I think I would start using it exclusively on my P3 standing in the corner. There is a need for a small multitasking OS that doesn't need huge packages to be updated and a series of config files to be set up properly :-)
Wow, by 2056 we may even be able to use Aros for anything else than see how uncomplete it is!!!!
Sorry, I could not resist!
AROS is a very cool OS, but the lack of apps saddens me.
"He's currently on a mission to make his computer world Microsoft free."
This makes it sound as if it's a hard thing. Okay, first step: don't run applications that run on Windows. "ArosMax is a version of Aros that can be run from within a Windows environment for easy evaluation." See the problem there? If you run it from within a Windows environment, you are no closer to making your computer Microsoft free.
Here's a tip for you: download the live CDs for MEPIS and Ubuntu. See if you like KDE or Gnome better, and then delete your windows partition and install which one you prefer. Your "mission" would be complete, you would have a fully functional system that is Microsoft free. Glad to help.
I recommend, for those who are intrested in this OS, to take a good look at the GUI and scheduler. It's nice, perhaps because it's simple. If you run several demos, they all run smoothly with each other. You can drag windows around in real time, without interrupting what's going on on the screen (although it may slow slightly). There is no jitteryness, no jumpiness. Just smooth behavior. It feels very interactive, with events happening instantly, and gadgets updating instantly, faster than can be seen, even on slow hardware. It's very impressive and it makes you wonder what all the complexity is for -- what it actually does for you, or at least, is it worth what it costs?
For a real look, boot it from its own CD. Running in on an emulator under another OS's scheduler will not give a realistic impression of this OS's potential.
I also consider this OS to be useful for solving the "Amiga problem", that is, Amiga's future. Whether or not you trust Amiga Inc., whether or not you like Genesi, or whatever, then AmigaOS will always have a future in AROS, no matter what else happens.
Erik
Yep, and the Karate Kid will always have a future in my DVD collection. Whatever.
"Wow, by 2056 we may even be able to use Aros for anything else than see how uncomplete it is!!!!"
And maybe by 2056 you will find out that raining on other people's parades is no life.
"Sorry, I could not resist!"
Right back at you.
> AROS is a very cool OS, but the lack of apps saddens me.
At least they are working on the os.
If you need apps, why not make them yourself!
> Wow, by 2056 we may even be able to use Aros for anything
> else than see how uncomplete it is!!!!
If think you can do better, why don't you just make something yourself to show your superiority.
Complaining is so simple.
If you can't show that you can do better, then you just need to shut up.
I have a lot of respect for people who are actualy trying to create what they beleive to be a good os.
I have been "playing" with Aros for some time now. I am not a dev or even close to it. I just "play" with it a lot. One thing I have found is that it is more done than it appears from Warnderer. Warnderer is not nearly finished but "under the hood" you would be surprised.. There is some work being done to add missing features to Warnderer and that I belive will start to surprise people. As some of the things that have to be done from a command line can start to be done from the Gui...
There is some "buzz" about some "basic" apps in the works for Aros. The next few months to a year should be really interesting...
Just my thoughts..
Would be great to run my old Amiga apps on cheep PC hardware. Amigaos flied on 25 mhz so think of what it can do on modern hardware or even hardware you nowdays can find on the dump!
I think the old apps need recompiling though.
No worries, there's no plan to ever include a 86k emulator on AROS, so you won't be able to run any old amiga software without recompiling.
Instead you should use Aros to run "UAE".
Great achievement isn't?
Recompiling is no problem as long as I have the right compiler and the sourches. So why use UAE for anything other than those apps that calls the amiga-specific chips directly. Whats most exiting for me however is that it might soon exist an efficient OS for my ordinary PC.
There is currently things happening in the "make 68k Amiga programs run in Aros"....so don't say never.
There are plans (or at least some intention) to try to "intergrate" UAE with Aros as much as possiable (a complete intergratin is not practical)...making it possiable to just run native Amiga apps just like you were on an Amiga...making UAE transparent....
So, much for "...no plan to ever...."
One should make sure of ones facts before shooting off ones mouth..
Well, AmigaOS/Workbench/Intuition/AmigaDos/whatever used to run on a 7Mhz 68000. Its not particularly surprising that even running through an emulator, A similar OS is damn fast.
Last time i looked, they still hadnt sorted out the X86 installation. Any one know if there has been any movement on this? If so, will dig out an old P200 and have a play.
For compatibility with Amigo, so I consider it only a toy.