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 | Posted by: gunne on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 14:22
Submitted by gunne |
| | | | On Aros wepbage is now a new status update present.
AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, 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.
Read the news and status update here at: www.aros.org
Taken from Aros.org:
Status update of 2005-01-05
- Aros-max: AROS has gotten its first distro - AROS-Max! This is a nicely configured bootable CD image with a lot more snacks than the regular snapshots and builds.
- FreeBSD Hosted AROS: Jack Patton made AROS compile and run cleanly under FreeBSD. He also set up a nighly build for the FreeBSD hosted version. We now have a build for both Linux and FreeBSD, as well as numerous fixes to the build system.
- Self-hosted build status: Jack Patton set up a page to keep track of the current status of the self-hosted build. To sum up, most of the tools are now ported, but lack testing and bugfixing.
- Sound support: AROS finally has sound support! Martin Blom ported his AHI system to AROS. Together with a Sound Blaster Live! (emu10k) driver (GPL'ed) ported by Georg Steger and an AC97 driver for Intel chipsets (works on nForce) by Michal Schulz, AROS is no longer mute! Jack Patton also ported SDL_mixer to AROS so lbreakout2 amongst others get a bit of sound.
- Storage: Michal has also been busy writing a much-needed new ATA.device with DMA support while Johan Grip is still working on his trackdisk.device rewrite. Adam Chodorowski has been hacking away on an eagerly awaited FAT32 implementation.
- Networking: Nic Andrews, Jack Patton, Olivier Adam and Adam Chodorowski has been working on integrating lwIP into AROS with some assistance from Staf Verhaegen. In parallel, Neil Cafferkey, has been working on porting AmiTCP aswell. So there's not one - but two - stacks in the works. Nic Andrews is working on a mail application aswell as helping Daniel Holmen out with an IRC client for AROS. Being the busy boy Nic is, he also ported a lightweight web server called Cheetah together with Jack Patton.
- Preferences: Fabio Alemagna implemented Screenmode Prefs, so now you can finally change screen resolution from within AROS itself! This also meant a lot of changes and bugfixes to the graphics system.
- Ported applications and toolkits:
- ScummVM (Jack Patton)
- XRick (Jack Patton)
- libogg/libvorbis (Adam Chodorowski)
- SDL_mixer and SDL_ttf (Jack Patton)
- D-BUS (Martin Blom)
- Plus a bunch of other applications aswell
- Build System: Aswell as the bug fixes and changes needed for the BSD build, Fabio Alemagna implemented a source fetch, patch and compile mechanism - similar to the port system of BSD fame - to the AROS build system. Basically, it allows you to make a one-line makefile to fetch a source archive, apply patches to the files, build it and prepare a binary distribution of the installed files.
- Other:Georg Steger, Fabio Alemagna and Staf Verhaegen have done a marvellous job cleaning up and bugfixing an enormous amount of code (as usual).
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