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Das "AROS Research Operating System" ist ein leichtgewichtiges, effizientes und flexibles Desktop-Betriebssystem, entwickelt um das Beste aus Deinem Computer heraus zu holen. Es ist ein unabhängiges, portables und freies Projekt mit dem Ziel, zu AmigaOS auf der API-Ebene kompatibel zu sein (wie Wine, nicht wie UAE) und es dabei in vielen Bereichen zu erweitern. Der Quellkode ist unter einer Open-Source-Lizenz verfügbar, so dass ihn jeder verbessern kann.

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Distributionen
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Distributionen sind vorkonfigurierte und getestete AROS-Versionen. Sie kommen mit ein paar nützlichen Anwenderprogrammen, die nicht in den Haupt-Binaries von AROS.org vorhanden sind. Sie sind deshalb vor allem für Anwender interessant. Sie enthalten nicht das neuste Kernsystem, aber ihre Stabilität und Benutzerfreundlichkeit ist viel größer als die der Nightly Builds. Falls Du ein Anwender bist, der herausfinden will was AROS zu bieten hat: nimm die Distributionen um das beste AROS-Erlebnis zu bekommen.

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GitHub Commits
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News

January/February 2025 Highlights

Author:Matthias Rustler
Date:2025-02-27

AROS core

Johan Gill fixed various issues with the OCS, ECS and AGA chipsets for the m68k port.

Website

Matthias Rustler worked on AROS' website. He brought back the RSS feeds for the most recent entries of archives.aros-exec.org and www.arosworld.org. He also fixed many dead links and other small issues. Johan Gill helped with porting the build scripts for the website to Python 3.

2024 Highlights

Author:Matthias Rustler
Date:2025-02-15

Krzysztof Smiechowicz fixed a lot of issues across the whole source code base. He implemented AREXX in Zune and relabeling of volumes in Wanderer's WBRename. He fixed some problems which were caused by icons without files. He made a new release of AxRuntime, a way to run AROS applications under Linux.

Russel Shaw extended the command line parameter handling of Multiview.

Johan Gill improved the m68k port. He implemented a faster PutImageLut().

Stefan Reinauer committed fixes for the CDVDFS file system and the darwin/arm64 build.

Franck Charlet improved the USB MIDI support.

2017 to 2019 Summary

Author:Nick Andrews, Matthias Rustler
Date:2020-01-01

Github migration

As a new year begins, its time to reflect on some of the things that have happened since the last news entry - which is a shocking 3 years ago! Firstly, the main AROS development has now migrated to GitHub. It has been a controversial decision/move but in the long run is better for the developer community, and AROS as a whole. Along with this has been the migration of the nightly builds to use Azure Pipelines, so that as a developer team we can all contribute to the maintenance/monitoring and fault resolution that is frequently needed in a project such as AROS, and in a more timely manner. You can find details about GIT usage in our documentation.

SMP

There's an experimental version of AROS x86_64 which can make use of multiple CPU cores. The scheduling code was rewritten to enable it by sharing a common task list of waiting tasks to run, and allowing the tasks to specify which core they can run on. Exec and other core components have been adapted to properly lock access to resources they use so that tasks running on other cores can safely access some things.

m68k

For a long time the m68k port has played only a minor role. This has changed recently because of the Vampire turbo cards where AROS will be the standard operating system. Various improvements have been done for the graphics drivers, the screen composition, ATA device, keyboard handling, MMU support etc.

Raspberry Pi

Some progress has been made on the port for the card-sized computer. An USB driver has been written and a big-endian target has been added.

AHCI Device

The source code of the AHCI device has been refactored to work more similarly to ATA device, exposing HIDD controller/bus/unit classes that can be viewed in SysExplorer.

Build System

A massive amount of refactoring has been done to make sure only the correct flags are used when building components, and to make sure flags are used consistently. It has been made sure object files from different components don't pollute each other when they are made in the same mmakefile. Changes have been made to allow modules to be built for different flavours (e.g. cpu types) of a target. The flags used when compiling c++/objc code have been cleaned up.

November 2016 Highlights

Author:Krzysztof Smiechowicz
Date:2016-12-29

November saw a fair amount of changes in AROS system. Neil Cafferkey provided further improvements to MUI and made 3D acceleration on the IntelGMA video driver work again. Krzysztof Smiechowicz fixed Windows-hosted AROS port, enabling Windows users to enjoy AROS again, and was making final changes to ABIv0 system refresh. Olivier Brunner fixed a memory trashing problem in AROS MUI List class and Miloslav Martinka made a small but useful improvement to Wanderer's Info tool, which from now on shows the path at which the icon is located and allows opening that path in separate Wanderer window.

Paolo Besser, who is working on next version of Icaros, announced that it will support also hosted flavors of AROS which is a welcomed development by AROS community. It means Linux and Windows users will be able to enjoy Icaros without a need to install virtual machine.

Third party development also provided new, interesting software. Marcus Sacrow prepared versions of his EdiSyn and Maporium applications for AROS ARM platform, which is a very welcomed development as ARM platform has very few 3rd party applications at the moment. Yannick Erb provided a new version of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machines Emulator) which can be downloaded from AROS Archives.

October 2016 Highlights

Author:Krzysztof Smiechowicz
Date:2016-12-04

In October the AROS repository breached the 53,000 commits mark thanks to contributions from multiple developers. Neil Cafferkey continued his work on improving MUI as well as fixing the IntelGMA video driver. Miloslav Martinka contributed further Czech localization as well as a localized WiMP tool. Yannick Erb and Marcus Sackrow contributed fixes to AROS programs and we saw the introduction of a new AROS GUI theme. Lastly, the ARM Linux-hosted version of AROS has been fixed to compile again as part of the ABIv0 refresh by Krzysztof Smiechowicz.

After September's explosion of distributions, October was quiet on that front. Third party developers however continued their work. Yannick Erb released an updated version of the ZuneView tool and Joerg Renkert released a new version of his ModExplorer application for playing online and offline music modules. AROS archives also saw the upload of two interesting Zelda-type games, 'Time to Triumph' and 'Navi's Quest'.


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