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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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Did you notice? We changed everything

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:27:00 GMT

There’s a surprising amount of behind-the-scenes work required to keep the services you’re using on the RISC OS Open website running, but it’s not glamourous work:

• Deleting spam accounts (thanks Dave!)
• Administering bounty donations and taming the beast (thanks Andrew!)
• Maintaining package lists (thanks Theo!)
• Keeping host OS versions patched and up to date (thanks James!)

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Fruit of community effort ready to pick

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 29 May 2018 10:59:00 GMT

Updating the User Guide from the parrot’s previous outing in 1996 has been a huge task. We’ve incorporated some of the introductory chapters about using RISC OS from the Welcome Guide (your supplier should still give you specific instructions about plugging the computer together), plus adding new chapters to cover the extra bundled applications and features in RISC OS 5.

A total of 62 chapters and over 900 images were brought together, with contributions and reviewing from the community. There’s now also some tutorial material included in the latest HardDisc4 to accompany the text.

In light of the community input we’ve squeezed the price down to just £20.00 (plus delivery, cost depends on destination) with an electronic copy following shortly for those who prefer to read on screen.

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