Aros

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AROS is an recursive acronym for the AROS Research Operating System, an Amiga OS 3.1 API compatible operating system, with certain improvements, that is portable and freely available. It is developed as a collaborative project, with the source code being available under an open source license.

Like AROS, this documentation is still under development - feel free to edit the pages to improve, correct, or extend them.

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 User - The manual on using AROS 1.2 Developer - Developing for AROS, and developing AROS 1.2.1 Zune (GUI toolkit) 1.2.2 Libraries 1.3 Platforms - Platform specific parts both for user and developer= 2 See also

[edit] Contents

[edit] User - The manual on using AROS

• Introduction
• GUI manual
• DOS manual
• Networking manual
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Missing Functionality

[edit] Developer - Developing for AROS, and developing AROS

• General overview and introduction
• Application Packages
• Example program: Hello world
• SimpleWindowIntuition
• Build-System used to compile AROS
• Porting software from other platforms
• Logging
• Building
• Incomplete APIs
• Maintainer
• Memory Management
• Nightly Config
• Self-hosted Compile

[edit] Zune (GUI toolkit)

• Primer
• Manual
• Classes
• Custom classes: expanding Zune

[edit] Libraries

• CGFX
• DOS
• Exec
• Expansion
• Graphics
• IFFParse
• Icon
• Intuition
• Layers
• RexxSysLib
• Utility

[edit] Platforms - Platform specific parts both for user and developer=

• 68k support
• 68k installing
• PPC support
• PPC installing
• x86 support
• x86_64 support
• x86 installing
• AROS USB support
• *nix support
• *nix installing

AROS public license

[edit] See also

• AROS on Wikipedia
• The AROS website
• aros-exec.org Primary AROS community website, currently has got much more up to date information