Freeware operating system: AROS

[Eugene Esterly III]

AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) is a freeware operating system
which is aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving
on it in many areas.

This freeware operating system is for Linux & you can download binaries
for this software at http://www.aros.org/download.php .

Now, this opearting system was never ported to Windows until several
weeks ago. There are two versions which are the full version of Aros
which is 80 MB & a light version of Aros called WinArosLight. The 2
downloads are at http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/afa_binarie_upload.php
..


The 80 MB file is called WinAros.exe

The light version is about 18MB & it called WinArosLight.exe

WinAros.exe which clocks in about 80 MB plus has more programs than
WinArosLight.exe .

These a HD images which run on Windows using Qemu.

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) is a freeware operating system

which is aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving
on it in many areas.

This freeware operating system is for Linux & you can download binaries
for this software at http://www.aros.org/download.php .

Now, this opearting system was never ported to Windows until several
weeks ago. There are two versions which are the full version of Aros
which is 80 MB & a light version of Aros called WinArosLight. The 2
downloads are at http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/afa_binarie_upload.php

if it needs linux or windows to run, then its not a true OS, to me it seems
more like an emulator????

 

[El Gee]

AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) is a freeware operating system
which is aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving
on it in many areas.

This freeware operating system is for Linux & you can download
binaries for this software at http://www.aros.org/download.php .

Now, this opearting system was never ported to Windows until several
weeks ago. There are two versions which are the full version of Aros
which is 80 MB & a light version of Aros called WinArosLight. The 2
downloads are at
http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/afa_binarie_upload.php .


The 80 MB file is called WinAros.exe

The light version is about 18MB & it called WinArosLight.exe

WinAros.exe which clocks in about 80 MB plus has more programs than
WinArosLight.exe .

These a HD images which run on Windows using Qemu.

I D/Led and burned AROS as a bootable .iso a many months ago and it was
not an emulator, but a full OS (but light on programs...) It ran live
on a CD. I always keep my eyes open for OS's to play with.

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[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Eugene Esterly III, ([email protected])
said...

This freeware operating system is for Linux & you can download binaries
for this software at http://www.aros.org/download.php .

Site is empty? What happened?


Gabriele Neukam

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[Eugene Esterly III]

On that special day, Eugene Esterly III, ([email protected])
said...


Site is empty? What happened?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

The site works. I just check out the link & it works. The site might
have been down or it might be your web browser. I checked out the link
in Opera & it works.

 

[Mark Carter]

if it needs linux or windows to run, then its not a true OS, to me it seems
more like an emulator????

AROS can be run on Linux and Windows as hosted systems. It also runs
native - so it is a true OS. It is a very sleek, very fast OS. It has a
TCP stack, and I've managed to connect to the internet using it (in
native). NIC support is limited (!) It does have a browser, but don't
expect miracles from it (!)

I haven't played with it this year. The basic problem with with a native
install is that GRUB can only boot a filesystem that AROS uses called
AFFS. AFFS is very slow and buggy. A new filesystem, called SFS, is
fast, and I assume they're ironing out whatever bugs exist. So SFS is
the way to go. The problem is, GRUB wont currently boot to a SFS system.
So setting up a native system using SFS (AFFS is quite unusable) is a
major headache.

The reason I'm not using it just now is that I want to wait until they
get SFS going properly, with a proper installer.

I have a few pages dedicated to AROS here:
http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/aros/aros.htm

 

[Clive Savage]

if it needs linux or windows to run, then its not a true OS, to me it seems
more like an emulator????

Yep, this is emulator software for the Amiga Computer.

Bye for now.

Clive.

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

Yep, this is emulator software for the Amiga Computer.

Bye for now.

Clive.

AROS isn't emulator software for the Amiga computer. It doesn't run on
the Amiga & it doesn't need an emulator such as WinUAE to run.

Qemu is an emulator which allows you to run operating systems on
different operating systems. For example, with Qemu, you can run Linux
on Win XP, et al.

To read lots of info about Qemu, goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
..

To download Qemu for Windows goto http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ .

To download Qemu for Linux goto
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html .

Aros can also be burned as a Live CD/ which means that you burn the
disc as a bootable CD which you put into your computer & boot. When you
computer boots up, Aros loads off of the CD. To understand what a Live
CD is, goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD .

 

[Daniel Mandic]

AROS isn't emulator software for the Amiga computer. It doesn't run on
the Amiga & it doesn't need an emulator such as WinUAE to run.

Qemu is an emulator which allows you to run operating systems on
different operating systems. For example, with Qemu, you can run Linux
on Win XP, et al.

To read lots of info about Qemu, goto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU .

To download Qemu for Windows goto http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
.

To download Qemu for Linux goto
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html .

Aros can also be burned as a Live CD/ which means that you burn the
disc as a bootable CD which you put into your computer & boot. When
you computer boots up, Aros loads off of the CD. To understand what a
Live CD is, goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD .

Hi Eugene!



How much compatible is it to a real Amiga?


Can it be started without Windows or Linux?



IRQ-requested hardware?


Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Mark Carter]

How much compatible is it to a real Amiga?

AROS is an Operating System that is built for x86 (I think there is
PowerPC support too, or something, but I'm hazy on details). An Amiga is
a piece of hardware based on a Motorola chipset.

Software is therefore incompatible at the binary level.

Can it be started without Windows or Linux?

A Live CD is available that requires neither. It is also possible to
install it to a HD - something which is a bit of an uphill struggle.

As indicated in a previous post, the native filesystem leaves much to be
desired. I've tried created a system using the better SFS filesystem,
but have yet to get anything to work.

Unfortunately, IMHO, this is a significant barrier to people wanting to
investigate AROS further.

 

[Daniel Mandic]

Unfortunately, IMHO, this is a significant barrier to people wanting
to investigate AROS further.

Hi Mark Carter!



Nice to hear from you.


AFS (FFS) can still compare to FAT16 or FAT32, IMO (try to recover
deleted FAT32 files - what a horror. Dave Haynie's Freeware-recovery
program was a milestone). As I told many times, NTFS and NT are an
other story. It was really an amazing step-up for clunky x86
office-machines. Making game-machines with that? Yes, why not. But the
Amiga is smoother, better and much easier to programm, better sound
(except some soncrads with onboard instriments, FM or Digital, like the
AWE series with the EMU8000 and the later EMUk10 with PCI but no
instriments onboard anymore - what a sh... ), lower costs,
connectable to any type of Monitor and TV-Set when having a
scan-doubler. All in one cute case, portable under your arms and no
need of cimatic-regulated meetings for.


The actual PC amrket brings me back to real high-end. My IBM-PC chipset
is now ten years old and very fast and unbelievable.
My only limit I saw till now, are hgh-end TIFF's not fitting into 768MB
Main Memory. If this is the way to go... No, not with me. I know better
ways to see such pictures, and in better quality anyway. Mid-, or Large
format celluloid. Though, even my old 53' Kamera with Zeiss objectives
(58 and 25 - fixed) can make better pictures than any standard-dig.cam.
I am not talking about the large-scale CCD on the Hubble-Telescope ,
but who wants to wear such a big thing around - not to mention the
battery-staff behind you

Bringing me to the place, where I could use a large-format cam, let's
say with a wide-angle-lens, could be bring me round.

Well, I am going a too far.

I think I'll try it out. AROS.



The best chance for the AMIGA is as it is. Silverarrow Mercedes are
also driving again . And well...




Kind Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

Well, I tried out AROS about a week ago & while it is a good freeware
OS, I really didn't like this OS.

Well, sometime in the near future, I'm going to redownload Damn Small
Linux which is an OS which runs from Live CD. I used it before & I
loved it but I deleted the download & erased my CD.