AROS News

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]

New versions of the Odyssey Web Browser were extensively tested in September. On the AROS World forum, Deadwood regularly makes the latest builds available for anyone to download and test. It’s worth doing, because the main target, YouTube support, is already working quite well! We’re looking forward to the full... [Read More]

Despite the holiday period, AROS developers have not slowed down. August brought another batch of bugfixes for the community, as well as two updates to large and eagerly awaited programs. We are, of course, talking about OWB 2.0-alpha and Final Writer 7.1, which was released for AROS systems first. [Read More]

In July, Deadwood began work on updating the OWB browser (according to Development plan). On the AROS World forum, topics have been set up for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the browser. There you can download the latest development version and participate in testing, which I strongly encourage... [Read More]