Icaros is not a bad OS at all :D

[fishy_fiz]

Unfortunately I dont think your wifi is supported so youd have to get either a mini pci card or use some sort of usb option.
As for a vlc style player, mplayer is equally good. Skype has no support for any amiga system. Java no, javascript, yes (even has jut support).

Im surprised to hear the probs people are having with getting aros to run. I havr an i7 desktop, an i5 laptop, 2 core duo desktops, an athlon64 laptop, and an eeepc, and the only machine that gives me any grief is the i5 laptop.

[fishy_fiz]

The fact that there's options doesnt hinder progress. The OS core developeds continue to work on the core OS and distro makers make the distros. The work doesnt overlap. Apart from that there's different arcitectures supported. End of the day the variety helps, not hinders aros progress.

[fishy_fiz]

Firstly AROS supports far, far more hardware than morphos, so thats an odd comparison. Wifi support is fine, just get a supported card. If your laptop has no mini pci then you can use usb. There may wellbe a driver for your netgear card btw, I was going by the onboard intel wifi before. Does your laptop gave a pcmcia slot though?
Of my 3 laptops only 1 doesnt work completely.

As for the flavors its very simple and less convoluted than linux distros.
Also, AROS *is* native, doesnt sit on another kernel.
The different distros parallel the different 68k packages (amikit, amigasys, etc.),.... same os, same software works on them, its just the customisations to the core os that are different.

The exception is hosted, which runs aros as a VM of sorts. Again, completely compatible with current software.

Slight sidebar, buy saying a machine works "all the way back to xp" is a bit unusual seeing as xp is a still developed OS

[fishy_fiz]

@phoenixkonsole.

Perhaps you could be a little clearer/more focused publicly. Saying things like "we're doing.....", and so on makes it sound like an AROS thing and not something youre just doing yourself. In short you seem to be confusing things for others a little by giving then the impression some of your projects are at the heart of aros, rather than your own pet projects that utilize aros.

[fishy_fiz]

In regards to a reasonably modern machine and/or distro, Ive run it on my i7-860 + gf 570 system and it works nicely on both icaros and aspiros. Sound on mobo is supported, as is hardware 3d acceleration.
Its a socket 1156 system, but that has its advantages as wrll (cpus arent locked, so good value can he had).  Board is msi m55-e33.