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Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:39:00 GMT

If you want to know what’s going on in the RISC OS world, you can do a lot worse than looking in our forums. You can also see what we’re up to on our Facebook page (rool.social) and Twitter feed (@risc_os).

There are also loads of handy sites like these:

• RISCOSitory
• My RISC OS
• The RISC OS blog
• The Icon Bar
• RISC OS info
• RISCOScode

And for those of you who like it old school, there are the “comp.sys.acorn.*” usenet groups.

There’s always lots going on behind the scenes, too. We’d love to post more updates to keep everyone informed but there’s just so little time! If anyone fancies helping out with putting out regular update posts about all things RISC OS, please get in touch here (subject “news help”).

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Raspberry Pi interest breaks site traffic records

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:16:00 GMT

Over the years traffic to the ROOL web site steadily increased as news of the project gently spread out from the core RISC OS crowd to a wider audience. As more and more of the OS became available, our site page hits gradually increased, along with the amount of data we sent out (bandwidth used) each month.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Raspberry Pi release created a big spike in traffic. We fell just slightly short of 2 million hits in November 2012, with over 115GiB of data sent out. In the whole year of 2011 we reached 5.5M hits and 160GiB data; the October and November 2012 data total exceeds all of 2011 and the hit count is already at over ten million for the year, with most of December still to come.

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Official release of RISC OS for Raspberry Pi - updated

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:02:00 GMT

We have updated the official release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi (RISC OS Pi) to address a number of issues that were spotted in our first release. The updated image has now been made available for download here.

Take a look at the first official announcement from the Foundation on the Raspberry Pi web site.

If you’re new to RISC OS, you can find a quick overview here and in the “A Stroll Around RISC OS” PDF document here (plus, of course, on the RISC OS Open site!).

Don’t forget, for your convenience and enjoyment, you can buy RISC OS Pi pre-imaged and tested on an SD card from RISC OS Open, as well as the fantastic NutPi add-on pack. See our store pages for more information.

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See ROOL at the unmissable RISC OS London Show

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:17:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending what promises to be a very special RISC OS London Show tomorrow (27th Oct 2012).

Not only will there be all kinds of new and exciting demonstrations from all the usual people, but there will be a zone dedicated to the Raspberry Pi and all the great uses people have found for it.

ROOL will be demonstrating:

• The first public demonstration of RISC OS Pi
• The NutPi pack for RISC OS Pi
• A Beagleboard running the latest version of RISC OS 5

as well as selling a selection of merchandise:

• RISC OS Pi on SD card
• The NutPi SD card
• A ROM upgrade for the EtherB network card
• USB sticks containing:
  • A RISC OS emulation solution for Windows, Mac OS and Linux (updated)
  • A native ‘Filecore’ format disc image for booting RISC OS machines (updated)
  • The latest Desktop Development Environment (release 24)
• CMOS widgets for modern RISC OS hardware

Posted in New product, Community | Tags etherb, london, nutpi, os, pi, risc, show | 2 comments