Starrfoxx wrote:
I've been reading more and more on AROS, and it has my interest. Is there a way to test out AROS on a virtual hard drive with VMware?
Try Googling for WinAROS. It's a preconfigured and preinstalled AROS environment in the Q virtual machine. It's free.
Starrfoxx wrote:
What can you do with the current version of AROS? Any cool games or applications?
No browser, no Office software, not many games. But it does have a compiler so you can write your own ;-)
Starrfoxx wrote:
And how would this compare to Linux/Ubuntu? I'm loving Ubuntu and I find it quite useful, although it's not a complete replacement for my Windows XP partition (which I use mainly for games).
AROS doesn't come close to Ubuntu in terms of software library, maturity of the OS, or hardware compatibility yet. IMO it's a curiosity, but not something which could replace Ubuntu or Windows at this stage.
Starrfoxx wrote:
And how would you compare AROS with WinUAE/UAE?
Apples and oranges. AROS doesn't run 68k Amiga software, so it is a totally different kettle of fish to [Win]UAE. AROS only *looks* like AmigaOS. It isn't really.
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moto
