AROSAROS RESEARCH OPERATING SYSTEM
Paolo Besser
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
AROS Research Operating System is a desktop operating system
- lightweight, efficient and flexible - designed to help you make the most of your computer - It's an independent, portable and free project - aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level - while improving on it in many areas. - the source code is available under an open source license - which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.
(from www.aros.org introduction)
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
ABOUT AROS
- Its developers are talented and addicted to Amiga behavior
- It brings back AmigaOS' structure, concepts, graphic interface and habits on modern, fast and cheap hardware
- It allows small and efficient executables
- Its light and simple structure allows fast program execution, and immediate switch from a program to another
- It reprises AmigaOS look and feel, bringing it to any platform
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
- Coding on AROS is practically no-way different from doing it on real Amigas
- You can code your software both on Linux or AROS
- Porting of already-written C applications from Amiga is quite easy
- Original Amiga documentation is still working on AROS, but you can easily find coding tips on www.aros.org
- Any further information is available joining AROS developers mailing list, or contacting AROS-EXEC forums.
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
LATEST UPDATES
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
- Poseidon USB stack integrated
- Added SATA support for most chipsets and controllers
- Updated MESA and SDL libraries for games and graphic apps
- Added more network drivers
- Modern Web browser now available
- Modern media player now available supporting most formats
Available in three versions
- Icaros Desktop Live! Full feature AROS distribution with all applications, games and extra software. It needs a DVD-ROM player connected to your system to be installed. Can run on both real hardware and virtual machines. It can also run directly in a Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 window with the provided QEMU emulator
- Icaros Desktop Light Reduced version of the Live! distribution that comes in a single CD-ROM. Good for old computers and laptops without a DVD player. It doesn't provide QEMU, but it can run on real hardware and virtual machines.
- Icaros Desktop VE Pre-installed, complete Icaros environment on a VMware virtual machine. Virtual appliances support is under investigation.
Coherent and renewed GUI
- Ken's icons and OS4-like theme provide old school Amiga feeling in a modern fashion
- Path field in Wanderer windows allow fast moving to favourite locations
- AmiStart allow easy launching and docking of favourite applications
- Skinnable system and transparency effects
You can run your old apps...
- AmiBridge helps executing legacy 68K applications
- Apps run in a true Amiga virtual machine, under AmigaOS 3.x (you need it)
- JIT compiler provides a GHz- like 68K processor
- Amiga and AROS apps can share the AROS filesystem
- Amiga and AROS can share clipboard
...but newer ones are better!
AROS AROS made easy AROS Research Operating System
- All applications are already pre-configured
- YAFS ftp server allow easy transfers from/to Icaros PC
- 99% of features are available straight from DVD
- Network isA already GROWING configured COMMUNITY for VMware and VirtualBox
- Poseidon USB stack ready at start-up
- Verbose start-up options
AROS A growing Internet client AROS Research Operating System
- OWB allows access to modern web applications like Google Office and others
- SimpleMail and YAM provide email exchange
- WookieChat is a full-featured IRC client A GROWING COMMUNITY - SabreMSN is an almost complete Messenger client
- Icaros already provide access to some web apps from AmiStart menus
AROS A reliable multimedia platform AROS Research Operating System
- Mplayer supports most audio and video codecs (full-HD .mkv files included)
- Icaros provides encoders and decoders for them - Amiga old-schoolA GROWING music COMMUNITY editing with MilkyTracker, HivelyTracker and ProTrekkr
- Can play up to 4 DVD-quality divx files with in-synch audio on an average-price configuration
AROS Games, games and more games! AROS Research Operating System
- All the best games ported to AROS are available in the Live! edition (DVD)
- Icaros provides the latest SDL and MESA libraries for OpenGL compatibility
- Emulators for other glorious platforms areA available GROWING (8 bit COMMUNITY Commodore computers, PSX, and others)
- Complete editions of Beneath a Steel Sky and Drascula under pre-configured ScummVM
AROS A smart platform for developers AROS Research Operating System
- Icaros Desktop provides a full development chain
- Murks! IDE
- AROS can now compile itself - Libraries thatA areGROWING not included COMMUNITY in AROS nightly builds are available in Icaros Desktop
- VIM and NoWinEd editors
- MuiBuilder and other tools
AROS Powerful, but cheap AROS Research Operating System How much should a hobbist computer system be priced?
Low end, maybe 2nd hand system Hi-end powerful system Old AMD or Intel CPU (0.8 – 1 GHz) 2.5 – 3 GHz processor € 90 Old motherboard Compatible motherboard € 60 PCI SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 audio PCI SB Live! 5.1 audio card € 25 PCI Realtek 8029 ethernet card Supported PCI ethernet card € 10 Old EIDE 6 – 40 GB hard drive New 250 GB SATA drive € 50 CD or DVD playerA GROWING COMMUNITYDVD burner € 15 Mouse, case and accessories Mouse, case and accessories € 80
Same performance level of an Amiga Dramatically outperforms any Amiga PPC platform PPC platform Expected price: € 0 - 99 Expected price: € 250 - 350
AROS A peek to the future AROS Research Operating System
This is something it should happen in the future, nobody knows when...
- Gallium3D will add accelerated 3D functions to AROS
- UAE will be more integrated to AROS
- AmiBridge will try to add AmiKit support A GROWING COMMUNITY - ADF files will be directly handled
- You will use your scanner and printer
- AnubisOS will provide a full Amiga-like experience on a full-featured modern kernel
...and obviously we will rule the world again! ;-)
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
Thank you! A GROWING COMMUNITY