Icaros Desktop 2.0 finally available

[paolone]

The second "major release" of Icaros Desktop, your beloved AROS distribution, is now available for download. After 18 months of hard work, many internal beta releases and countless of additions and bug fixes, it brings a completely new interface based on DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan, a more polished M68K environment for classic Amiga games and applications, many new applications (among of them: ZuneView and ScalOS), and the faster TLSF memory manager recently introduced in AROS.

Icaros Desktop 2.0 is based on Deadwood's ABIv0-on-trunk backport and is available, as usual, in two flavours: the self-executable Live! package, which includes DVD ISO for installation on real hardware and a refreshed QEMU virtual machine for Windows™, and the Light version, which includes the core files only, but will fit on a CD-ROM or on a 1GB USB pendrive.

For more informations, full-size screenshots and downloads, please follow this link on www.icarosdesktop.org



Icaros 2.0 can run on Windows as self-contained virtual machine, albeit slowly.


ADF and ISO images can be mounted and unmounted with a few mouse clicks.


Faster and stabler 68K environment allows execution of classic Amiga applications.


OWB 1.23 enhances Icaros web-compatibility with current sites.


Be among the first ones to try Phoenixconsole's appstore!


Management of image files has greatly improved in Icaros Desktop 2.0.

[paolone]

congrats to all involved as it looks amazing:drink:

personally I'm still happy with AspireOS on my netbook & this distro looks to be for more powerful PC desktops or notebooks

You'd be happy to discover that Icaros Desktop 2.0 is actually faster than 1.x on low specs hardware.

[paolone]

The "missing volume L" error generally happens when AROS tries booting from the wrong partition. It does not find the L directory there and then complains. It's quite common if you try booting AROS with two or more USB drives/pendrives connected to the system. Try removing unnecessary drives and see if booting completes without issues.

Yes, kernel is now more informative than in the past, but too many messages can be the alarm ring which something in your configuration is not in compliance with what AROS expects.

[paolone]

Really great work thanks a lot! Runs really good.

You should torrent this version also so we can seed it so others can download it that way if they prefer

Thanks. We will try to torrent it as well.

[paolone]

Might be the wonderful new "Update" Google made in youtube. OWB on MorphOS3.7 is having issues too.
Even on the PC side I hear Chrome is ok but new vids won't play well in Firefox.
Biting themselves in the ass I think.

I've never undestood exactly if these changes are made to actually improve the site, or to make use of external scripts harder (they generally skip advertises...)