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Scheduled downtime

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:36:00 GMT

The server hosting the ROOL web site and source repository services will be offline for maintenance work later today. It should only take an hour or two.

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New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:00 GMT

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest RISC OS ROM release from Castle Technology (Castle) for the IYONIX pc desktop computer.

This is an official release from Castle and represents the second formal ROM release to include changes and improvements which have been fed back into the shared source project.

You can download your copy of RISC OS 5.16, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.

Please note that in order to fix the incorrect date bug seem on some machines in 2010 with RISC OS 5.15 or earlier, you must program the ROM into Flash.

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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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Updates on the ROOL website

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:00 GMT

In advance of the London Show this weekend, RISC OS Open have updated a large number of the downloads to the latest and greatest versions.

All of the source code archives are automatically updated each night but prebuilt items, such as ROM images and applications, are only updated when we perform builds.

To assist with the on-going work on the Beagleboard, all of our pre-built components are now ARMv7 safe and the OMAP ROM build is up to date. We’ve updated the RISC OS 5.15 ROM build (for IYONIX softload) to use the latest sources in CVS, too.

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