Latest AROS News!

Whoo hoo, finally another post on The AROS Show! I don't post as much as I have in the past, but I guess after 5 years that can happen. You get busy and interested in other things and pickup new projects along the way. But guess what, The AROS Show is still alive! There is plenty of news to write about, but first I want to say I now have a native AROS box of my very own and I absolutely love it! They were getting rid of a perfectly good old PC at my office and I grabbed it right up for $15.00. It has a 1Ghz Pentium III, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, TNT2 video, and a Soundblaster Live sound card. I installed the latest Icaros distribution on it and it runs very well. I am very happy with the performance. I am mainly using it to program with PortablE. What am I programming you ask? Well, I'll tell you about that later in this post. I don't feel it is important enough to place in the beginning. So on to other AROS news!

First off, I have just contacted Krzysztof "deadwood" Smiechowicz about doing an interview for The AROS Show and he accepted! So another interview will be coming soon to The Show! You don't want to miss this one. Deadwood has done a lot for AROS and continues to do so.

Robert Norris has recently created a Planet AROS at http://planet-aros.cataclysm.cx/. This is a web site where feeds from a group of blogs are placed on the same site. So you can easily check the Planet and get most of the blog news about AROS. You can even read The AROS Show posts there! If you have an AROS blog and want to be added to Planet AROS, use the link in the right side of the site to contact Robert.

The Poseidon USB bounty is now considered complete. Chris is now fixing any bugs that may pop up. It is a huge step for our operating system. We have a nice USB stack now!

The great and powerful Icaros AROS distribution has recently released a new version with Poseidon included. If you haven't heard, Icaros now has the ability to do a live update via Icaros' LiveUpdater 1.5.1 too. Paolo Besser has made many updates to Icaros lately. For more updates and information check the Icaros official web site.

Steril has been working on a small image manipulation program he calls AROS Shotofop. (get it....Shotofop *wink*) It is pretty cool so far! You can read the thread he started over at AROS-Exec.org about it. Here is the web page that explains more. Nice work Steril! Check it out!

Oliver "o1i" Brunner continues to work on UAE integration into AROS. He has named it Janus-UAE and is following features listed in the UAE bounty. To follow his progress, check his blog. He does a good job of updating his blog and works on Janus-UAE when he has time. I am looking forward to him getting further with this one, it will be so nice to have!

If you missed it, Dr. Michal Schulz completed the Port AROS To EFIKA (Phase I) bounty back in June.
Lately, the good Doctor can be spotted on the #aros IRC channel and from what I can gather, he is tucked away in his lab with a i.MX515 board porting AROS to it!

Well, I think that is about it for now. I tried to dig up some stuff that has happened in the last few months. Hopefully I remembered everything. If not, comment and let me know.
I wanted to do something in AROS myself, especially since I have my AROS box going now. I have always loved programming and now have the chance to start a language that is born in AROS. To find out more about Mouser, check out my coding blog.