AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. AROS can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other. Over 500 members are working on improving AROS. Improvements of the last month are: Better mice tracking and pointer precision on the screen. IRC and Telnet clients were added.