OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22593/Icaros_Desktop_1_2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 06:02:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Rellro Rastro! http://www.osnews.com/thread?398660 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398660 amining ro recreate

Sorry, could not resist. That is pretty cool, and I love that more and more OS options are becoming available for netbooks.

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Btw this link is b0rk3n:

http://www.icarosdeaktop.org/Edited 2009-12-09 18:24 UTC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments RE: Rellro Rastro! http://www.osnews.com/thread?398661 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398661 change deaktop to desktop

http://www.icarosdesktop.org/ Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sanctus) Comments RE[2]: Rellro Rastro! http://www.osnews.com/thread?398678 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398678 Yeah, I know. Just pointing it out. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments Damn Awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?398683 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398683 Aros is getting cooler by the day.

all it needs is a few core apps and its perfect for a laptop.

Word processing
Spreadsheet
database

that'll do for now. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (roger_ramjet) Comments Caught my interest http://www.osnews.com/thread?398700 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398700 This AROS/Icaros caught my interest enough to go and read more about it.

Later I was already booting it in Qemu.

Sadly, I haven't got much to say (yet), but at least I got a chance to say that people do read about "alternative" operating systems here at OSnews. Even people like me whose Amiga experiences are limited. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (strcpy) Comments Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?398707 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398707 I ran some kind of live cd or emulated version a year or two ago, and though a bit buggy, it was still snappy.

Imho AROS and other small upstart OSs (Haiku) should really focus on getting a solid web browser before anything else. As more and more things have moved into the browser and we spend more and more of our computer time using it, it grows more important for each day.

I use Haiku with firefox as a dual boot option for mswindows when I only need to login to my bank to transfer money, or send a quick email or check the bus time table. Boot time is very short compared to the time I will have to wait until my win desktop is up and ready. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wowtip) Comments RE: Damn Awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?398719 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398719
Aros is getting cooler by the day.

all it needs is a few core apps and its perfect for a laptop.

Word processing
Spreadsheet
database

that'll do for now.


If it can run old Amiga software you're well catered for there. Might need to hit the yard sales/abandonware sites to get hold of them though! Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments RE[2]: Damn Awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?398720 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398720 Have I got a deal for you! Over 100 Amiga 3-1/2" floppies. Make me an offer.
jimbot at frontiernet.net Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StychoKiller) Comments RE: Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?398731 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398731
Imho AROS and other small upstart OSs (Haiku) should really focus on getting a solid web browser before anything else. As more and more things have moved into the browser and we spend more and more of our computer time using it, it grows more important for each day.

AROS has a nice WebKit-based browser already, so as long as it supports your network hardware, you can already do everything except for Flash-based sites. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments RE[2]: Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?398745 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398745 And haiku has a webkit port that is working great with the recent QT port and a native webkit browser is in the works

Haiku also has a gnash port... not all that usefull though it has potential Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cb88) Comments RE[3]: Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?398849 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398849 Well, Aurora (qt browser ported to Haiku) is crashing a lot, so actually, right now, it seems the AROS browser is a bit more usable.

But Haiku is not far behind, though, and the desktop environment Haiku delivers is kick ass. AROS' Wanderer leaves a lot to be desired, and hasn't really been worked on since 2005 or 2006. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (m0ns00n) Comments