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!

AROS Vision "Sunrise" released!

Oh very nice, yet another AROS distro proven alive: amiga-news.de reports that "AROS Vision" got updated

AROS Vision is an m68k based distro created by Olaf Schönweiß. 

Apart from newly added apps "AmiDream" and "AmiTranslate", we do not have a lot of information about this latest release, and the download link on AROS vision's homepage currently points to a file named "aros_2020_Basis_UAE.7z" (2020?) - but an updated AROS distro is good news nontheless. More details can probably expected over the coming days.

Go to AROS Vision homepage for latest info and downloads:

https://www.aros-vision.de

amiga-news.de article:

http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2023-07-00038-EN.html

New distro: "AROS One" by "Spadoni Carlo" / AMIGASYSTEM

UPDATE 2019-07-30:
Ops, sorry! I've just received message from the author of this new distro - it's not Andreas Magerl, but "Spadoni Carlo" / AMIGASYSTEM! Thanks for the info!

Pretty much from out of nowhere a new AROS distro has popped up: "AROS One v1.0" by "Spadoni Carlo" / AMIGASYSTEM.

"AROS One" is "Spadoni Carlo"'s personal AROS distribution, which he just made available to the public.

It's based on AROS x86 ABIv0 latest nightly builds, comes with a custom icon set, a "AROS-for-Amiga" (AfA) style Wanderer setup, and is preconfigured for vmware virtual machine use. Installation on real hardware will require some adjustments, e.g. network interface.

https://www.amigafuture.de/uploadpic.php?thumb=4021_aros_one_x86_1.jpg&d=max

Here's a demo video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zhrivctqygs9kYOiCUZdBQmJA7fUILQU/view

Go to AMIGA FUTURE's "AROS One" forum topic page for more information and download:
https://www.amigafuture.de/viewtopic.php?t=48219


Additional sources: 
https://www.amiganews.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20106
http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2019-07-00020-DE.html

AROS Exec: new website

New website, still rocking: "AROS Exec", the community's main forum website has moved to a new address:

https://ae.amigalife.org

This is a "reboot" of AROS Exec, meaning you have to register a new user account even if you had one on the previous website. All previous threads and posts are gone from the new website - but have been read-only archived to https://ae.amigalife.org/old/

Make sure you update your bookmarks, and visit AROS Exec every once in a while!

https://ae.amigalife.org/Themes/default/images/ae-logo.png

AROS alive web directory - links to AROS-related websites

Just in case you haven't seen it yet:
Here's our collection of links to AROS-related websites - food for your webbrowser!

 

https://arosalive.blogspot.com/p/aros-alive-web-directory.html

Do you have an AROS related website that's not listed? Or are you aware of AROS websites that are missing from the directory? Please leave a comment, corrections and additions welcome!