AEROS for Pi beta 3 available for registered users

[phoenixkonsole]

Yesterday i finished beta 3 of AEROS for Pi (a AROS hosted distribution based on debain (for now)). Upload for registered yousers is slowly progressing - will be ready in 2,5 hours (it is 21:23 in germany)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgJcJcV7HY


New in the beta 3 are:
Some new app with Icons and icons for already installed apps as follows:
Gimp 2.8 (yes i used it to make some icon on the pi... ; ) )
Audaciuos (Winamp like audio player)
LibreOffice
Dillo (brower which starts instantly and is ok for Amiga releated websites)
Netsurf (better compatibility and somewhere between Dillo and Midori in terms of performance)
Midori
VLC (don't expect wonders! Remember to buy codecs from the raspberry guys on raspberry.org)
DOSBOX (damn feels like on ATOM systems ; ) )
E-UAE (yes but no AROS68k yet - will follow with next version together with PUAE)
Leafpad (Text Editor, lightweight)
SCUMMVM + Beneath a stell sky + Flight of the Amazon queen
TUXPaint - nice painting app for kids with stamps and nice effects
and more...

Remember you can access everything mentioned above(and more) alternatively with a right click on the black task bar.

I found some applications to be very responsive and some which start instantly, even on a relative slow sd-card. If you know alternatives to some apps feel free to tell me those ; )

All in all AEROS for Pi (even if based on debian) is already quite leightweight.
Debian + AROS consume in total 68MB of RAM whereas 32MB of it are "reserved for AROS" which again shows 28MB free of 32MB which means in total AEROS need 40MB RAM ; ) Not bad. WICD Networkmangaer consumes 11MB of RAM and will be replaced with an better alternative.

Slitax is an good alternative to debian. The whole Linux part could be loaded into 30MB of RAM. This means everything being loaded to RAM and so no SD-banging.

To make it a bit user-friendly you can now access raspi-config via icon.
With this tool you can expand the partition to the whole free space on your sd-card and configure overscan and other Pi related things.

Linux windows have now the close icon on the left side as AROS apps.

http://www.aeros-os.org

A new public version will follow next weekend.

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[Wilse]

Cool. I have a Pi which I've hardly used in the 6 months I've had it. This might persuade me to fire it up again.
How do new users get a hold of this?

[phoenixkonsole]

Hi,
 
to get access to the early / supporter website you can do one of the following:
 
"The Raspberry Pi Version is only available for registered users. To get registered you need to qualify yourself with one of the following options:
1. Buy something from ares-shop.de or prove that you bought a AresOne from somewhere else
2. USE our sd-card service on ebay
3. Donate at least 10 US $ to any AROS related bounty on www.power2people.org or prove that you did already.
4. Or buy a ARES ArmedOne"
 
Well 4. isn't available yet.

[mfilos]

Who do I have to contact to get registration info since I meet the requirements for No.3 ?

[phoenixkonsole]

Thats me. You can find my email address on the bottom of http://www.aeros-os.org

"kontaktieren....." = contact

[mfilos]

Thanks. Emailed already

[phoenixkonsole]

me too : )

[Holmes]

Even though they aren't available, can someone say what an ArmedOne is, or is going to be?

Wanted to try aeros for a long time but deciding on the hardware is taking time.

[phoenixkonsole]

ARmedOne is meant to be a ARM based AresOne or ARMigaOne(no I would not risk to start a war ; ) ).

Now I am looking for a more performant base which has a good GPU supported by "open" drivers.. so we can at least get 3D supported via AROS hosted.

Wandboard could be nice. I make some tests asap.

http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/faq

[Holmes]

ARmedOne is meant to be a ARM based AresOne or ARMigaOne(no I would not risk to start a war ; ) ).

Now I am looking for a more performant base which has a good GPU supported by "open" drivers.. so we can at least get 3D supported via AROS hosted.

Wandboard could be nice. I make some tests asap.

http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/faq

Thanks for the heads up. Aeros seems so interesting/exciting/new that your only problem is hardware. Just like Linux Mint, the problem is which hardware?