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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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Looking to spark your imagination?

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:20:00 GMT

SparkFS is undoubtedly one of the must have RISC OS applications when it comes to working with compressed files/archives, so much so that we’ve bundled a read-only version as part of RISC OS 5 since as far back as 2014.

Having worked closely with David Pilling, SparkFS’ original author, we are very pleased to announce that from today, the full read-write version is now included for free with RISC OS 5.

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