Too much AROS!

[mihcael]

Please don't recommend the nightlies to end users. They may not work and give a false impression.

For the average homemade-PC user, Icaros is the way to go.

I said Nightly Build for quick test, you think someone will want to download 1 GB file just to see if it boots correctly?

[bloodline]

I put a minimal install (no decoration, only core OS Apps, plus a few demos and games) on a 64meg USB stick to show a friend on his Laptop... He totally fell in love with it, he hadn't seen "AmigaOS" since '92 and was blown away with it!

I let him keep the memory stick he's happy and it works perfectly for him

[paolone]

AROS needs one native version in one website and downloaded via one easy location/link.

LESS IS MORE!

No problem to me. Just give me € 5,000,000 and I promise I'll never do a Icaros Desktop version again! (I may help other distributors, though, between a trip around the world, a trial of a new sport-machine, a cup of Champagne, and the others)

Jokes apart, fragmentation is the other face of freedom. At least on AROS we have a commond ground - standardized by nightlies, mostly for system files - which makes writing software for AROS coherent and fully compatible between nighlties and distributions. X86 software even works both in native and hosted flavours. So the choice is up to the user: with 3 different x86 native distros, they will have the freedom to choose between each of them, according to their different feelings and area of interest.

Icaros Desktop tries to be faithful to the AmigaOS experience, while adding many features people are already accustomed to with other mainstream operating systems. Just imagine it as a "bridge" between Amiga and Win/Linux habits. That's why we ask users to "View -> All files" while offering remote desktop and ftp sharing facilities at the same time.

[phoenixkonsole]

Hi just to clear it up:

First was AresOne, than came Broadway.
Broadway is "preconfigured" to have sound and network out of the box when installed on an AresOne which is good for AresOne-customers.

Than IcAROS while it offer nearly everything it offers too much in my opinion.
Too much because you will find a lot stuff which is buggy. Paolo knows this and is trying hard to find buggy things.
So every bug report will help to make it better.

As you say: "less is more"
Than there is personal taste (look and feel)

Also i am free to use other systemfiles.. maybe older (if needed), newer if needed, alternative ones (if needed) to run other things and do some experiments.

That's all. Who knows..maybe there is coming already a complete new distro....

PS: My vision of Broadway is to be minimalistic. Basic. With Jack for example i can leave out nearly everything and the user can decide what to use.