What is AspireOS AspireOS is an open source operating system for personal computers. This is beta quality software, even if version numbers might indicate otherwise. If you think AspireOS is a finished, complete operating system, you will most likely be disappointed. AspireOS isn't there yet, but we are slowly getting there. This OS is not emulatied in any way and does not use Linux kernel. AspireOS (AROS) is a clone of AmigaOS in the sence of being compatible with Workbench 3.1, but at the same time much more advanced. Amiga is most known as a home gaming computer from the 90s. What many don't know is that Amiga where the first real multimedia computer. Everything from sound production to multimedia and movie making, Amiga where the best around. With bad management Commodore/Amiga went bankrupt in 1994. The team There are lots of people working on AROS and its programs. They are for sure the main part for the existence of AspireOS. I worked alone with this distribution for months and then this nice buy from aros-exec.org made this great AspireOS wallpaper, with the now official AspireOS logo that I liked a lot. This guy is the one and only shufflepuck.  Shufflepuck AspireOS Wallpapers, Themes, Icons and more.  Pascal The man behind the ARES computers (only official AspireOS hardware for sale) Helps out with testing, addons like up2date and more. This site AROS runs on most x86 hardware, but it's far from all hardware that is supported with drivers for gfx, sound and network. If you have a machine with empty pci slots, that could be solved by adding what is not supported by the motherboard. In the world of laptops (netbooks) this is not in the situation. If you are lucky AROS have drivers for it, but most of the time there are something not working. The solution would be to write drivers to support whatever is not working or add a usb network card to get online. It was kind of by luck that AspireOne got supported the way it is. Kalamatee and Hitchhikr wrote nic driver for his machine and that driver also supported the one in AspireOne. Stephen who came up with the first official supported AROS machine "Imica" got Davy to make driver for the hd-audio sound chip in the imica computer. Similar sound chip was inside AspireOne, so sound was also working in Aspire One. Since Aspire One love AROS so much, I decided to put up a page dedicated to the use of AROS with Aspire One. Summer 2011 I decided to do my own AROS distribution Called AspireOS. Time goes fast and now almost 1 year after the first AspireOS release we are 3 people doing AspireOS. We are now so lucky that we have official supported hardware that you can buy new. The ARES computers from Pascal.
 me and my wife My name is Nikos Tomatsidis. I'm born 1972. My fatner is Greek and mother Norwegian. I live in Norway, married and have a family with 2 kids. My first experience with personal computers where the Spectrum 48k. Competition from commodore where hard and that resulted in selling the spectrum and buying commodore-64. I had a break from computers some years, but from around 1991 I got my hands on a used Amiga 500. After that I had Amiga 1200 and then Amiga 4000. My Amiga 4000 ppc board died many years ago. When that happened Amiga where in a very bad situation, and I sold what was left of my Amiga hardware. Maybe 1 year after that I discovered the AROS project. That was pretty interesting since it would allow me to run Amiga like OS on x86 hardware and it was free (open source) The huge disappointment I felt from who ever took over the Amiga also made me believe it was time the users took over the Amiga development (after all it's the users who kept the dream alive). I been following the AROS project since around 2003. I been most active since around 2007. I'm not a developer, but supported the project in many ways. Bug testing, donating, some small gfx work, made Audio Evolution port to AROS a reality, helping new users and now my most ambitious project, AspireOS (AROS distribution) and this web-site. Why AspireOS Very fast and responsive OS. Fastes booting OS in the world. Between 10-15 sec and you are up and running. With MPlayer you can play almost any media file, no matter if it is video or sound. You browse web-pages with the advanced "Odyssey" Web browser. When you want to turn off AspireOS, use the power button. No log inn log out. AspireOS don't require much disk space or memory. The system files are around 30MB. Windows Vista or 7 require at least 10GB of disk space and 1G ram to be installed. A netbook like ACER aspire one 110 SSD 8G does not meet those requirements, but AspireOS for sure does. Most normal computer activities can be done from AspireOS. AspireOS is free, open source system, just like in the world of Linux. If you are an existing or old Amiga user, you will feel home at once. You can even use old Amiga apps. and run them inside AspireOS. AspireOS is easy to understand. The OS structure is by far the most understandable I ever seen. AspireOS is lots of fun to use. We have some great programs and games that you will like. |
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