London Show 2024: Get in for free with RISCOSbits' FreeNVMe*
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*Don’t panic, ROUGOL, we’re not sneaking people in through the back door! To celebrate the first London outing of our FreeNVMe genuinely open source drivers, RISCOSbits are offering to refund customers’ entrance fees, by way of an extra discount on all purchases of NVMe-enabled systems over £99 (excluding the DIY.NVMe kits, which are too much of a bargain to discount any further!) at the stand. In fact, we think you’ll love FreeNVMe that much, we’ll extend it to ANY purchase over £99 at the stand. Terms and conditions obviously apply (we’ll only offer one refund per purchase) but we’re happy if you club together with a RISC OS friend to get your purchase over that £99 cut off and then you can fight it out between yourselves as to who gets the discount! And if you’ve already made a purchase and had your refund, feel free to send your mate up to buy more stuff on your behalf to get a second discount! Simply quote ‘Oi! Gimme my door money back’ when making your purchase and we’ll knock it off the price! About FreeNVMe As the result of partnering with Stader Softwareentwicklung and RISC OS Open, RISCOSbits have been instrumental in developing the new free and Open Source NVMe driver and filing system, that we first demonstrated back in December 2023. And it has been in reliable use on RISCOSbits’ Compute Module 4 systems ever since. Designed from the ground up to fit perfectly with existing RISC OS filesystems, FreeNVMe follows all the usual filecore conventions so that all existing tools, such as DiscKnight, work straight out of the box – no custom tools are required. A conscious decision was made to adopt the existing standards for filing systems, so that any developments to the core of RISC OS would automatically integrate with FreeNVMe. There’s no tie-in to a paid-for support scheme – our driver is designed to work with the nightly builds from RISC OS Open. And it’s completely free. You can download it now, without having to buy anything: https://www.riscosbits.co.uk/nvme/ And FreeNVMe is genuinely open source. You can look at, and download, the source code directly from the RISC OS Open repository NOW. You have the opportunity to contribute to the code to improve FreeNVMe and make it into the real community-led filing system it was intended to be. FreeNVMe was designed to offer the following features as standard:
And FreeNVMe is FAST! So fast that we felt comfortable incorporating it into our premium RISCOSFAST range of computers. Possibly the fastest RISC OS computers to date. |
