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 .