“Dr Michal Schulz has made an initial commit of the AROS USB stack, enabling the use of USB mice and creating the foundations to add support, subsequently, also for other devices. Please notice this is pre-alpha stage software, this means only USB 1.1 UHCI controllers are supported for now, and maybe it won’t work correctly on your motherboard. Next thing to develop will be extensions to USBHID class, allowing to use graphic tablets and USB keyboards with AROS, and OHCI controllers support. We must note that support for USB 2.0 EHCI controllers wasn’t defined in bounty Michal is working on.”
This is great news! I dream of the day being able to install aros on my hard drive, plug in my digital camera, and import the pics using wanderer, and edit them in Lunapaint.
Think that may happen sooner than we think!
I dream of the day I can run AROS native right off my USB pen drive then browse gmail.com. 🙂
On a sunday afternoon.
Aros looks really sweet in many departments. But please, the window borders and windows themselves look ehrm… well not very appealing to say the least.
I hate to say that so many Operating Systems which seem great in many ways lack so much in the visually appealing department that they never really get a chance.
Back to the main note. Great to see USB support coming up to Aros. Seems like this is something alot of alternatives are getting at right now, maybe combined efforts would ease life a bit?
Oh, come one, use an Amiga, and you’ll get into the retro look; for some of us old farts out there, the Amiga graphical user interface is the pinnacle of good design – functionality before bling.
Maybe if certain companies, no nameing anyone in particular, did the same thing, their customers would be alot happier, and we wouldn’t have ‘wish lists’ for what they want on the next release of zyx.
Agreed. I think that AROS, at least its default skin, looks nicer than any of the current popular “modern” GUIs. Of course, I think the same also goes for NeXT and plain old BeOS R5, so it’s entirely possible that I have weird tastes.
There does seem to be practical merit to visual simplicity from a design standpoint, though. Even if it’s just the pragmatic reality that there appear to be very, very few graphic designers who can handle visual complexity well.
“I hate to say that so many Operating Systems which seem great in many ways lack so much in the visually appealing department that they never really get a chance.”
Maybe the reason the Operating systems ‘which seem great in many ways’ do seem that way because they dont have to waste resources on eyecandy.
For me an os that is not system hungry and feels resposive is much more importaint that how it looks.
That said, there are always ways to change the look if it’s so importaint.
Edited 2007-03-25 19:36
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nova/arosshow/desktop_aros.jpg
🙂
please port libusb to have an option to develop userspace drivers.
Everything in AROS is in userspace! 😉
USB is essential for any modern OS. Most every peripheral is USB now, so hats off to the Devs!
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240×320)
pfft!
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (MorphOS;U;[en];PPC) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko)
😉
God willing an AROS port will soon happen. 🙂
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (MorphOS;U;[en];PPC) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko)
It’s so unfair!
MorphOS has a much more recent version of WebCore than GTK+ does… boohoooo
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-us) AppleWebKit/146.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) osb-browser/0.5
None the less. A wise choice for a browser engine. Especially when considering performance, load times and memory consumption
Wait, there’s a GTK+-based WebKit browser? Please tell.
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
Edited 2007-03-26 17:42
There is. It’s built around Nokia’s port of WebCore to GTK+. It’s butt old though it’s still being maintained – sort of.
Website for GTK+-WebCore
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
Projectsite for GTK+-WebCore
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-webcore/
Most recent version is 0.5.1 which compiles with GCC4.
Most recent version is 0.5.1 which compiles with GCC4.
Not true, dylansmrjones. Most recent version is actually 0.5.2
I can do so just now using MorphOS. Just replace Wanderer with the way more powerful Ambient (Lunapaint is available for MOS).
Anyway, I guess AROS & MOS should go tighter together.
Ambient for AROS wouldn’t be a bad idea IMO (Zune should be able to handle it).