It has been exciting around AROS lately. There is a lot of coding happening, plus many other things.

Rob Norris has started his journey with Traveller. Thankfully he likes to write, so he updates his blog frequently. I read it everyday and am fascinated by it. I really wish the C programming language and I were not enemies. I would love to contribute in some way to the Traveller project. But anyway, be sure to check his blog to follow Traveller closely. What, you don't know what Traveller is? Check the post below this and you will be enlightened!

Michal Schulz continues to work on 64-bit AROS. He also keeps us informed of his progress on his blog! In his latest post Michal tells us about his fight with a nasty bug. He provides a link to the most recent AROS64 ISO too! Keep in mind, this is a beta version.

The resourceful Paolo Besser has opened a new web site! He is offering a new product for AROS, named VmwAROS. Here is an excerpt from the site.

"Welcome to the VmwAROS official website. VmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS environment for VMware, a reliable way to test and use the AROS Reasearch Operating System on your computer without really installing it on your hard disk, but without the limitations of read-only live-CDs."

Michael "Micken" Grunditz has been porting SimpleMail. He is in need of alpha testers for the application. You can contact him on the AROS irc channel on the irc.freenode.net network at #aros or you can PM him at http://www.aros-exec.org. Screen shot here.

Federico Stango has been working behind the scenes to update AROS-Exec.org. 4Play and I have been managing the project. Nice changes are on the way!

João Ralha has been working on some documentation for AROS. I've read through what he has written so far and it looks really good. He has been doing a fantastic job on some much needed documentation. This documentation will no doubt help new users.

Alain G. has accepted and is working on the Port TeX bounty. Read more about TeX here.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything on the latest happenings. If I did, please feel free to let me know, so it will be included. I love seeing all of this AROS activity!