"AROS has gained lots of bugfixes and improvements in the lastest weeks. For istance, Neil Cafferkey has corrected some important bugs is his beloved AROS Installer; Nic Andrews has worked on his RTL8139 network driver; and Robert Norris has fixed file notifications, which previously broke preferences, just to name three."
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Self-hosting refers to the capability of a given OS to be complete enough to run a compiler and a toolchain complex and, again, completed enough to compile itself. If the OS is capable of that, it usually means that it's basically useable and good enough for non-fans, attracting more people to the userbase.
It is considered an extremely important milestone in the development of a pice of software as complex as an OS.
Edited 2007-11-22 04:04
Member since:2006-01-01
What do you mean? You can run it self hosted, just boot off the CD and off you go
Yes,"if it only worked". If they want us to test their OS and find bugs, they should make it work on new hardware and not just old hardware. At the moment, users with modern hardware with JMicron on-board and SATA devices are left out.I've never been able to boot into AROS natively using my dual core.
Member since:2005-07-18
If only they would make the effort to "self-host" AROS's kernel building...
The AROS people want that too. In fact, there is already a $275 bounty waiting for anyone that accomplishes the task of "Creating tools to allow AROS to self-compile."
http://www.thenostromo.com/teamaros2/index.php?number=14
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2006-03-13
AROS, Haiku and Syllable are the three "hyper-alternative" OSes that show promise of being someday usable and useful. AROS is especially cool as it allows for a large subset of "properly written" Amiga apps to be run with native x86 performance with what basically amounts to a simple recompile. If only they would make the effort to "self-host" AROS's kernel building (which, given than GCC runs on AROS is probably a fairly simple task), people might even begin to take it seriously.