RISC OS Pi released (RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi)

[Steve (ROOL)]

RISC OS Open are very pleased to announce the official release of RISC OS for
the Raspberry Pi, "RISC OS Pi". This is a watershed moment for RISC OS and
represents the culmination of many months of hard work from a whole community
of developers, testers and other contributors. It also means the Raspberry Pi
can now boast support for the quick, compact, original ARM-based operating
system.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pi

This is the first 'official' release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi. It is
intended to be programmed onto an SD card (2GB or larger) and can be
downloaded free from the Raspberry Pi download site, as an SD card image or
as a torrent. Alternatively, you can buy a specially-branded SD card already
programmed and tested direct from RISC OS Open.

Eben Upton, from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, had the following to say about
the RISC OS release: "Having spent a lot of time in my youth pining over
Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC products, it's a great moment for me personally
to see an evolved version of the original ARM operating system brought to the
Raspberry Pi. From the Foundation's point of view, we welcome the arrival of
an alternative desktop environment, offering a rich suite of applications,
and with BBC BASIC only a few keystrokes away."

Steve Revill, from RISC OS Open, added: "We're proud and excited to have
achieved this milestone in the development of RISC OS. It's so good to see
some great British software engineering to complement the fantastic British
Raspberry Pi hardware."

About the Raspberry Pi:

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and
a keyboard. It's a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things
that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It
also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all
over the world to learn programming.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

About RISC OS Open:

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) manages the source code to RISC OS. We are an
organisation run on a largely voluntary basis. We also offer professional
services to anyone who is interested in developing commercial products using
RISC OS.

https://www.riscosopen.org/

--
Stephen Revill, Director www.riscosopen.org
RISC OS Open Ltd
Sovereign House, 22 Shelley Road,
Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1TU