Finally, AROS seems to be moving in the right direction with some momentum. AROS is AmigaOS x86, or rather, “Workbench x86”, as AmigaOS is now owned by Hyperion, a company located in Belgium but with developers all around the world.
Already iMica system can be used as a kind of reference hardware. It is more or less hardware that has been tested and verified to work with AROS, you can find out the specifications or why not purchase this hardware at: http://www.clusteruk.com/
If Atom based Mini-ITX sounds to low end for you there is already a kind of sister project running called “AresOne” a Micro-ATX/ATX system that is as powerful as any high-end PC hardware is running Vista today is.
AresOne will be launched on December the first 2009, but on the site www.aresone.de the following video has been posted with some information about the project and its objective. I especially liked the fourth part of the video, “The mission”. Please watch it (you can find more iMica and AresOne videos on YouTube):
IMHO, in 10 seconds, there was more hope and vision of a future of Amiga in this video than have come out of any major Amiga company in many years.
“If Apple can do it, we can too”.
YES WE CAN!