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.

[psxphill]

Icaros Desktop 2.0 is based on Deadwood's ABIv0-on-trunk backport

What does that mean?

[OlafS3]

What does that mean?

ABI1 is where development is done (it changes almost daily). To avoid problems there was ABI0 created, no commits there so it is stable and all software runs stable.  The disadvantage it stayed the same for years. Deadwood backported all possible changes from ABI1 so there is a new improved ABI0 (faster, more reliable, better memory management and so on). Somewhen in the future there will be only ABI1 and ABI0 dropped (that will need recompilation of all software).

To show it... Aros 68k is ABI1, that meant sometimes that certain software works with one nightly and not with the next one, one is stable the other one not. I had that frequent times during the development of Aros Vision. I certainly have one or two grey hears because of this :-).

ABIs are development branches

[klx300r]

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

[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.

[klx300r]

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

wow that's impressive:) so if I can dual boot it up natively like I do with AspireOS then I'm sold

[XDelusion]

This is very exciting. Ironically I had my system dual booting with WinXP and WinXP went down so I decided to back up my AROS folders and begin re-installing this morning...

...to my surprise it looks like I got to re-install yet again, this time with IcarOS 2.0!

 HURRAY!!!

[Yasu]

I tested this on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 for a few hours. It shows that you have done a lot of hard work! Well done! The only "big" problem I've faced is that Youtube doesn't work at all with OWB. Any idea why?

[goldfish]

Does Icaros Desktop 2.0 have support for ATi pci express card 3850 or is Ati still vesa drivers only

[Methanoid]

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

Really? It's much slower to boot the LiveDVD. Loads of kernel messages on screen now. Plus it always throws an error message about Missing Volume L or similar.

I'm building a USB installed Icaros and a USB Installer. But gotta get that Volume L fixed!

I'll worry later about how to get it booting at 1920*1080 with Nvidia acceleration!!

[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.

[Furvert]

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.

[som99]

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

[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...)