List-Id Announcements about AROS - The Amiga Research OS aros-announce.lists.hepe.com From aros-announce-admin@lists.hepe.com Date Thu, 25 May 2000 16:07:03 +0200 Subject [AROS-Announce] Status update Hello, There was no status update for more than 6 weeks (which is too much). I'll do better in the future :-) In the last few days, our WWW counter silently skipped 33.333 hits. The Sowatec AG has decided to give AROS a chance. Several people who applied for the job to work on AROS have been contacted to arrange for job interviews. That means for me that I will finally be able to meet some of the people I worked with for the last five years ;-) It doesn't mean that there will be an AROS development team in Switzerland, though. So don't hope for too much, yet :-) Unfortunately, the date for the World of Alternatives is very unlucky for me; I'll return from my holidays on Saturday and therefore, I'll not be able to attend :-( Since the World of Amiga in Cologne seems to be a dead event this year (Who's left to attend ? Who is willing to attend ??) I'll try to make it the London Amiga show or whatever is held this or early next year. Sorry if you did expect me to show up :-) On a more happy news, BGUI has been handed over to us and integrated into AROS (you can download the contrib sources for your copy). Manuel Lemus promised me that it compiles on Amiga but, unfortunately, it doesn't compile on AROS, yet (the old lack-of-manpower problem). There should be no major problems, though and porting has started. I just can't say when it will be finished. Anyone wanting to work on BGUI only (and not on AROS) should still apply for a CVS account to synchronise his work with ours. Also, Steve Crietzman of the Open Amiga Foundation seems to be pretty far with finding out which legal obstacles could hurt AROS/Lite. His effort is currently blocked by the effort of the Sowatec AG to found an AROS development team (we'll have to sort our legal obstacles first). As usual, the legal dept. drains all the energies ;-) On the AROS side, work is still progressing, maybe even at a faster pace than usual ;-) The AROS Native/i386 flavour is currently broken (the HIDD system has been greatly enhanced and Michael Schulz currently cannot take care of it) but AROS Linux/i386 works quite fine. Nils has committed a couple of patches which greatly enhance the speed of the graphics output (it's now *much* faster then on the WoA in Cologne last year in November). Right now, bugs in the build system and exec are hunted by various AROS developers and I hope to see lots of progress in that area when I return from my holidays. As for the survey which I started months ago, I hope I can summarize them after the holidays :-) Things never turn out what you expect them, -- ============================================== Sowatec AG, CH-8330 Pf�ffikon (ZH) Witzbergstr. 7, http://www.sowatec.com Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55 Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66 ---------------------------------------------- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, digulla@sowatec.com ============================================== ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: www.hepe.com _______________________________________________ AROS-Announce mailing list AROS-Announce@lists.hepe.com http://www.aros.org/mailman/listinfo/aros-announce