AROS Research Operating System

AROS Research Operating System
Icaros (AROS distribution) Desktop 1.3.1 with Amiga 68K integration (August 2011)
DeveloperThe AROS Development Team
OS familyAmigaOS-like
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial release1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Repository
PlatformsIA-32, x86-64, PowerPC, m68k, ARM
Kernel typeMicrokernel
LicenseAROS Public
Official websitearos.sourceforge.io

AROS Research Operating System (AROS, pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open-source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 application programming interface (API) which is designed to be portable and flexible. As of 2021, ports are available for personal computers (PCs) based on x86 and PowerPC, in native and hosted flavors, with other architectures in development. In a show of full circle development, AROS has been ported to the Motorola 68000 series (m68k) based Amiga 1200,[1] and there is also an ARM port for the Raspberry Pi series.

  1. ^ "AROS m68k-amiga". Evillabs.net.