RISC OS 5.24 stable is now available
Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:57:00 GMT
After a long run up RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) are pleased to announce the much anticipated latest stable RISC OS release for many of the computers your favourite OS currently runs on.
CC-BY Richard Humphrey
What’s stable, and how is it different to what I’m running now?
The stable release criteria are used to evaluate which ports are awarded a 5.24 badge, and which need some more work to finish them off. Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.25, we hope to add more stable ports for when RISC OS 5.26 comes along.
For the Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc from Castle Technology) it incorporates a massive 633 changes, 707 changes for the OMAP3 platform (used in the ARMini from RComp), 708 changes for the OMAP4 platform (used in the PandaRO from CJE Micros and ARMiniX from RComp), and 633 changes for the IOMD platform used in the Acorn Risc PC/A7000/A7000+.
For the first time the stable release includes the hugely popular Raspberry Pi series (costing less than £30), and also the Titanium port (used in the Rapido-Ti from CJE Micros and TiMachine from RComp).
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