WmvAROS Live! beta 0.9.1

What AROS is?

The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level (like Wine, unlike UAE), while improving on it in many areas. The source code is available under an open source license, which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.

[read more at http://aros.sourceforge.net/]

More words: Amiga ;)


VmwAROS is the AROS environment preinstalled and containing the set of applications.
This is a LiveCD (DVD actually) - VmwAROS Live! which can run on any PC hardware without virtualisation. It can be installed on the hard drive too. Hardware must be compatible with the AROS operating system.

[read more at http://live.vmwaros.org/]

Requirements: a x86-based computer with 500 MHz CPU; 196 MB system RAM; any PCI or AGP video card; 12x CD-ROM (DVD) drive; 1 GB to 6 GB of free space on a EIDE hard drive (SATA support is limited to native mode); PS/2 mouse and keyboards recommended; USB mice might not be completely supported; Recommended: an AROS compatible network and audio card. Please read the quick guide for references before installing.

The unpacked image file size is 752Mb, thus requiring a suitable CD (800Mb overburnable) or DVD disc. 
7-zip archiver (7-zip.org) and 66+ MB RAM is required to unpack the archive.

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New in version 0.9.1:
[http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/10/vmwaros-beta-091-released.html]
    
New since VmwAROS 0.9:

- Emergency mode respawn in Live-DVD
- New customized muimaster.library which fixes Icon menu issue
- Updated PDF documentation

New since VmwAROS 0.9 sneak preview:

- Switched from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM
- Graphic boot menu for the Live CD (only)
- Eternal Lands MMORPG game
- Other new games and applications
- Some fixes here and there

New since VmwAROS beta 0.8:

- Grub 2
- System files on a SFS partition
- Customized AmigaOS4-like desktop theme
- Working snapshot option and other Wanderer improvements
- New BHFormat utility
- Improved SimpleMail Lite
- Improved Murks! IDE version 0.6.1
- gcc 4
- newer VICE emulator (8 bit Commodore computers)
- Protovision's "It's magic" freeware game for C64 included
- New drivers for network cards

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VmwAROS LIVE! has all the features above, and more:

    * VmwAROS boots directly from CD (DVD)
    * VmwAROS software can be installed either on SYS:Extras or Work:Extras
    * Network already running from CD under VMware and Qemu

So what you're waiting for? Just download the new version and start enjoying it. And if you like it, please consider donating, it will surely help Paolo to continue improving his (hard!) work.


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Thanks to the Paolo Besser, the creator of this distro and all the warm AROS community and developers out there! See ya soon.