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RISC OS 5.26 is alive!

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:18:00 GMT

The Open Source RISC OS source tree is now live on our site for your delectation. There are some things you need to know…

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At last! RISC OS is back on NOOBS

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:23:00 GMT

Great news! RISC OS is back in the list of Operating Systems supplied as a part of the Raspberry Pi NOOBS – New Out Of the Box Software. It dropped off the list a couple of years ago when our support for the Pi 3 took longer to appear than we’d hoped, but now it’s back!

Posted in Community, New product | 5 comments

RISC OS is open for business!

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:02:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are hugely proud to announce that we will be working with RISC OS Developments (ROD), following their recent acquisition of the RISC OS intellectual property through the purchase of Castle Technology Ltd (Castle), in the next phase of the mission to reinvigorate the RISC OS market.

Image by Mark Moz, CC 2.0

ROD will be working alongside community maintainers ROOL to republish the source code to this popular niche operating system under the Apache 2.0 License, in a move aimed at removing existing barriers to entry for developers from the Open Source community and enabling free-of-charge use in commercial products for the first time in RISC OS’s history.

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Cheque, mate. Castle changes hands.

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:30:00 GMT

The cat is out of the bag – Castle Technology has been acquired by RISC OS Developments as a part of their long-term plans for the development of our favourite operating system.

The team at ROOL is extremely pleased to see this happen and we are very much looking forward to the possibilities that it unlocks. We’ll be happy to speak to you all at the London Show where you will be able to find out more from both RISC OS Developments and from ROOL.

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