New distro: AROS portable

New distro "AROS portable" runs in a virtual environment on your PC, so there's no need for installation, and your existing data won't be touched.

It runs from a USB stick (or any other such flash drive), and boots an AROS distribution based on AROS One. The system requirements are a bit unusual, compared to a raw, native build of AROS, but still are easily met by most reasonably modern computers. "AROS portable" requires an x86_64 PC with USB3.0, HD graphics, and CPU virtualization available and enabled in your PC's BIOS settings. The use of virtualization eliminates the need for some AROS hardware drivers, it acts as an abstraction layer for the actual, physical hardware - in other words: This AROS distro probably "natively" (virtually) supports more graphics, sound, and networking hardware than any other AROS distro. (Unless it's a "hosted" flavour, but that's a different story.)

Great stuff, a new AROS distro is always very welcome, and "AROS portable" looks particularly easy to use.

Here's a video from YouTube channel Retrofaza (2025-05-18): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OeMbB2rGXc

Go to...

https://arosnews.github.io/aros-portable/

...for more information and download!

New AROS ABIv0 base system release

Just a couple of days ago, a new version of AROS was released.

It's called "ABIv0_20250313-1" and serves as a base for possible distributions, or your own AROS installation. Currently, it's only the 32-bit / i386 variant, but the 64-bit / x86_64 is expected to follow soon.

There's a long list of bugfixes and updates, among which are:

• several improvements to audio system components (AHI-handler, ahi.device, sound device drivers, ...)
• improvements to muimaster.library (Zune GUI)
• improved file-system support (afs, sfs, ntfs, fat, cdrom)
• better hardware support (ACPI, pciusb.device, nvme.device, power/battery management, ...)
• ...and many more.
  

Find full details, and downloads, at:

https://github.com/deadwood2/AROS/releases/tag/ABIv0_20250313-1

 

New archives at arosworld.org

The AROS Archives are now reachable under a new URL.

Recently, the former URL of AROS' main 3rd party file repository, the AROS Archives, has expired. It used to be https://archives.aros-exec.org, redirecting to AROS World since aros-exec.org is gone.

Now the AROS Archives are directly reachable at:

https://archives.arosworld.org