AROS News

April brought enthusiastic news for the AROS community! In addition to new distributions of 32-bit systems, something truly groundbreaking happened - a stable bootable ISO of 64-bit AROS appeared! This is a huge step forward, which opens up new possibilities for the system and allows it to better adapt to... [Read More]

The event of March is Deadwood’s release of a new 32-bit base version of the system (AROS ABIv0 20250313). This update brings the 32-bit kernel to the same level as the upcoming 64-bit release, which is constantly being worked on. In addition, the 68k version also receives patches. There is... [Read More]

The beginning of the year in the AROS world sees preparations for the announced transition to 64-bit. Work on the base version of the system is taking place simultaneously, software is being ported and distributions are being prepared. The authors of AROS One and Tiny AROS have announced the release... [Read More]

The end of the year is a time for reflection and recapitulation. After years of less activity, we can safely say that this year has brought us many positive developments. From month to month we recorded significant progress, which you had the opportunity to follow on our blog. AROS has... [Read More]

It’s been a year since I started blogging about news in the AROS world. My first experience with the system, several years ago, was not one of the most successful. Over time, however, I became more and more convinced of its capabilities. You can say that I went a long... [Read More]

It’s been a long time since so much was happening at once. This month we got a cumulative update to the base version of the ABIv0 system, we got a new version of the web browser, and on top of that, x64 versions of important software started to appear. To... [Read More]

In this short article I’m going to show you different ways that upcoming 64-bit version Odyssey 2.0 can execute JavaScript code and performance implications of these choices. Some of the results are quite interesting, coming very close to modern-day (October 2024) Firefox performance. This is especially important taking into account... [Read More]