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IYONIX pc 2012 date problem

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:22:00 GMT

Many of you will be aware of a bug in the handling of a year counter in the IYONIX pc which means that the date on some machines changes to 2012 when they are booted. This is a software problem and a number of work-arounds already exist.

However, Castle Technology feel that this is a sufficiently severe fault to justify starting work on the next official release of RISC OS 5 for the IYONIX pc – RISC OS 5.15.

The latest version will not only address the date problem mentioned above, but will include many of the changes and improvements implemented since RISC OS 5.14 was released back in April 2009. Once it is available, users should program the new release into their machines using a supplied flash programmer to ensure that the date bugfix is correctly installed.

Keep an eye on the RISC OS Open web site over the next week or two for further news on the testing and release process.

Note to developers: the development version of RISC OS will move to 5.16 (beta) as soon as the new official version is released.

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Award for RISC OS port to Beagle Board

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:29:00 GMT

We are very pleased to have been awarded with the 2009 Icon Bar Best New Development Award for the ongoing Beagle Board porting work.

A special thanks must go to Jeffrey Lee for all his hard work, and to everyone else who helped him. It’s been great to see people starting to turn our vision for the future of RISC OS into a reality.

Posted in Community, Press coverage | Tags award, beagle, jeffrey, lee | 1 comment

Seasons Greetings!

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:30:00 GMT

As Christmas and the New Year is upon us, the team at ROOL is taking a well earned holiday for a couple of weeks. As such, please expect that allocation requests, source code submissions and other enquiries will take longer for us to process than normal.

Don’t panic though; we will be back in the New Year and dealing with things as normal again.

May we take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday and prosperous New Year!

— the ROOL team

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CVS repository incremental archives

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:23:00 GMT

To help people who want to keep a mirror of our CVS repository on their own machines, we’ve been publishing a cvs-repos tarball on our downloads pages which includes all of the repository (minus the CVSROOT directory that you have to create yourself). This tarball is automatically generated in the early hours of each morning (UK time).

However, this is a bit wasteful of bandwidth and painful for people to download and dearchive every time they want to update their local mirror. So to help out, we’ve introduced three smaller tarballs:

These are each rebuilt every morning but only include files which have changed in the last 24 hours, seven days or one month respectively. We hope this makes things much easier for keeping your mirrored source repositories up to date.

Note: due to the way they are built, the archives do include lots of empty directories (the whole directory structure) but none of the repository files unless they changed within the specified time period.

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