ADE is quarterly release with some snapshots between releases available from Cronus. To mention but a few of the packages in the CD there are for example GCC, gzip, gawk, m4, tar basically a LOT of ported pacakges under GNU General Public License but is not limited to those.
From this CD you can for example find a port of X Windows (X11R6.1) and prerelease version of pOS for developers. It would not be fair to the pOS if I started reviewing it more thoroughly. This is not the sales version (which you BTW. can have for 99DM with the coupon following this CD. Should be available later this year!). I installed it, the installation was a piece of cake. Just switched some background tasks/paches off, the pOS didn't seem to like some of the programs I was running. All this is mentioned in the documentation, just read it. Ran the pOS file and I had a brand new OS in my computer in 10 minutes! Wow, beat that record M$! It worked, didn't give me any unwelcomed problems and all the following test programs worked just fine. I have to admit that the look and feel of the pOS was a bit too X Window'ish to my taste but I could live with that. The reason for this pOS prerelease to be here is that you can make your programs support the pOS with the following developer kit and test it before the actual pOS hits the market.
The biggest reason that makes this CD stand out is the fact that it is not supported just by one single commercial or non-commercial entity but it is supported by the Development community itself. Kind of 'from Developers to developers' piece of art. This CD is a work of several people around the globe trying to meet the needs of Amiga developer at todays hard world.
Published By: Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe