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Five hundred and thirty reasons to visit Bradford

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:58:00 GMT

This year’s show organised by WROCC is once again taking place in the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford on Saturday 27th April from 10:30am to 4:30pm. The venue has convenient road and rail access – see the Google map for directions.

Worth a visit

Whether you’re travelling from La Rochelle (France), Mannheim (Germany), Svenstrup (Denmark), or even Hovden (Norway), that 530 mile trip is sure to be worth making – drop by the RISC OS Open stand to discuss the latest developments in RISC OS and share your thoughts for the future with us.

Over in the show theatre a number of talks will be taking place during the day, including RISC OS Open.

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I spy Pi Wi-Fi with my little eye

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:28:00 GMT

It’s the number two most popular bounty we’ve ever run (by votes) and following a surge in pledges this year, we’re excited to be able to confirm Wi-Fi to RISC OS 5 now underway.

Visitors to the MUG Christmas market last December will already have seen the proof-of-principle driver targetting the Raspberry Pi. Drivers aren’t the most visually exciting part of the OS, but they’re the foundation on which higher level functionality is built.

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To NVMe and beyond!

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:41:00 GMT

Previously thought to be lightyears away, today RISC OS storage technology goes on an Open Source adventure with Woody and friends along the non-volatile memory express-way.

Collaborating together

We’re delighted to have partnered with RISCOSbits and Stader Softwareentwicklung in the development of this key new storage capability for RISC OS 5. Comprising the usual ‘stack’ arrangement of a driver (NVMeDriver) and FileCore filing system (NVMeFS), the solid state flash drives take their familiar place alongside the other media on the left of the icon bar.

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Git goes native

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:46:00 GMT

First demonstrated in the February 2023 developer fireside chat, over the last nine months, a select band of volunteers have been providing feedback on the previews of the Git client for RISC OS, watching it gain more and more functionality at every step. Today we’re able to make that a wider release, as many of the most commonly used operations are supported.

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