I know a lot of people aren't going to like my suggestion, but it works for me.
I would highly recommend setting up a linux box and roll your own aros cds from the soure. Once you have all your deps its very easy and you get the advantage of getting to pick and choose which contribs you want tied in.
Personally I spend most of my time in the hosted version. With the hosted route it's a lot easier to tweak and you don't have to bother with setting up partitions. The downside is that I have yet to get networking up in hosted.
Everybody has different goals in mind with aros. Hosted is good for me because I'm trying to understand how aros works internally enough to where I can write drivers for it. I'm working on writing a driver for brook tree video capture devices and id like to take a stab at getting the cat weasel up and going.
