What are you doing with RISC OS?

Risc OS really needs to compete very hard with mac and windows. Looking for opportunity in mobile OS as well.

It’s lightweight, and runs on a mobile-suited device (Pi). So, I would tend to agree.

My latest fun with RiscOS is trying to use it as a nav ticker. With RC15 in combination with the SerialUSB module and !Connect program working well with my BU353 GPS puck on a Pi2, I have half the battle won there. Now looking for some nice parsing software for the NMEA output.

Take a look at http://www.svrsig.org/HowTo.htm and RaspberryPi GPS.
Software is at http://www.svrsig.org/software/SatNav.htm

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the link. I’ll give that program a whirl … it looks interesting.

Currently I have just dug my RiscPC out of storage and have installed RISC OS on one of my R-Pis. Longer term I am thinking of coupling a touch screen to the pi and using it as networked music player. We will see how time allows for that – two young kids means little time for projects!

Got an A3000 downstairs but I’m not sure it still works. Have a few emulators set up on my PC though, mostly to have access to ARM BASIC for just quickly throwing things together (if that counts!)
Despite the shortcomings, it’s a lot less effort than dealing with Windows and Microsoft’s ever-more-complicated APIs, heh.

post moved to the General Forum; where it should have been in the first place.

Hi all

I’m making the switch to RISC OS as my new main desktop OS.
i love using the Raspberry Pi 3+ for this purpose instead of a big clunky tower.
All I really need is IRC with SSL support, and a browser with JavaScript support.
I want to use it for my work purposes and these two are all I really need i’m not already positive RISC OS fully supports?
But I hope to be able to do Audacity-like audio editing in RISC OS as well.
I think there is a great opportunity to expand the userbase of RISC OS.
More people want a lightweight and minimal OS and are looking for alternatives to Linux.
With the presence and ubiquity of Pi’s it is only natural!

TY

If I can browse the internet, print on my printer (HP Laserjet 1022n), use my Epson V37 scanner (USB), and view .PDF’s, I’d be pretty happy. Can I do all that on a Raspberry Pi 3B, running RISC OS 5.26?

Well NetSurf would be my preferred browser but there’s also !Otter which provides better JavaScript support but comes with a speed penalty. The HP LJ 1022 is listed as supported via Gutenprint (commercial) but since it’s a network printer there’s also a free JetDirect/PCL solution, so you’re good.
Scanning should work, no problem re PDF handling either.

Gutenprint
network printing
Scanning

Have a look at !Plingstore and !PackMan for stuff like !PDF, !PDFTest and !Otter

browse the internet

Limited.
Browse the Internet: yes
Use web apps: good luck

HP LJ 1022

The RISC OS PCL driver could work too.

Scanning should work

No, but since the Twain2 source code is available, a Sane backend could be ported.
Twain2+Sane would be perfect for a bounty, and direct integration into RISC OS 5.

https://www.davidpilling.com/wiki/index.php/TWAIN

What am I doing with RISC OS?

Well, I finally got round to learning ‘C’ and am working on my very first RISC OS program using the OS_Lib library installed via PackMan.
And I’m absolutely loving it. So much fun.