New AROS distribution

[paolone]

Starting with the new version 0.7, published today, VmwAROS has turned into a complete AROS distribution. From now on, it will be available in two flavours, pre-installed in a virtual machine as usual, and live-CD.

Users of VmwAROS LIVE! will be able to boot their computers straight into a enhanced AROS environment, with DHCP network support and preliminary web browser. A complete list of nwe features is available at the site http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/vmwaros-beta-07-and-live-07-released.html.

VmwAROS VM beta 0.7 can be downloaded from:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/vmwaros-is-complete-aros-desktop.html

VmwAROS LIVE! 0.7 can be downloaded from:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html

Please check your hardware for AROS compatibility before trying to install VmwAROS LIVE!.

[paolone]

@Colani: I think it would crash also with more powerful video cards. Nvidia and ATI drivers need a code refresh, but no one has the time to do this... In the meanwhile, select a VESA mode. It's also more compatible with games and emulators in the distro.

@Merc: that's a VPC issue. VPC IMHO is the worst virtual machine ever, please use VMware server (that's equally free) to get rid of any emulation problem. VmwAROS runs fine on it, with network too.

[paolone]

@Colani:

Strange that Janoeditor crashes. It shouldn't. Have you modified the desktop theme to OS4's? I had report in the past that OS4 theme seldom crashes shells and editors.

RTL8029 is fully supported. Have you followed the PDF documentation? Please refer to the VMWAROS QUICK GUIDE in /Docs for further informations.


@Effy:

There is a final dot (.) in the address above. Sorry, I can't edit it anymore, but the correct url is this one:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/vmwaros-beta-07-and-live-07-released.html

[paolone]

Now that I have a working editor, I have configured the network settings manually, but still no luck. Could it be because I connected to BNC (I am forced to...) and that the media type is not discovered correctly?

I've never tried BNCs, so I can't answer to you. However, it can be.