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RISC OS 5.18 for Iyonix and Beagleboard

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:46:00 GMT

New RISC OS ROM release (version 5.18)

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest stable RISC OS ROM release featuring no less than 340 improvements since the last even numbered release.

This is an official release that has been vetted by Castle Technology (Castle) for the Iyonix PC desktop computer and RComp Ltd (RComp) for the BeagleBoard xM based ARMini.

You can download RISC OS 5.18 free of charge from this page.

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.19! Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, users can feedback any issues seen to make it into the next version.

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RISC OS Open travel to the South West

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:05:00 GMT

For the first time for a few years, RISC OS Open are very happy to announce that we will be attending this year’s RISC OS South West Show, near Bristol, on Saturday 25th February.

We will be showing the very latest RISC OS on the Beagleboard, the development version of the “Live RISC OS” ROM image and talking to people about progress on porting RISC OS onto the RaspberryPi.

Come and see ROOL and catch up with everything that’s new in the community.

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ROOL Christmas break

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:26:00 GMT

The RISC OS Open team will be taking a long-overdue break for the festive season from the 22nd December to the 2nd January (inclusive). During that period, we will not be responding to email enquiries or processing orders, but will catch up again when we’re back.

Have a happy Christmas and here’s to a prosperous New Year!

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Bug tracker temporarily offline

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:28:00 GMT

A fault has developed in our bug tracker that causes it to consume all CPU on our web server when we attempt to start it. The problem seems related to the Subversion repository and causes sufficient load of the back-end database that the rest of the web site becomes unable to respond – this was the cause of our brief site down time earlier this week.

I’m investigating the problem but other commitments mean it may be a while before it can be resolved. In the mean time, if you have bugs to report or discuss, please use the bugs forum.

Thanks for your patience!

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