RISC OS Open

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The source code publication is facilitated by a shared source initiative (SSI) between ROOL and Castle Technology (CTL).[6][7] ROOL hopes that by making the RISC OS source code available for free it will help stimulate development of both the RISC OS source code and the platform as a whole.[8][9]

A development version of RISC OS 5 has been available for the BeagleBoard and related hardware since early 2009.[10]

Operations

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Ben Avison showing a BeagleBoard in 2009
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Steve Revill in 2011

ROOL set initial goals to make the source code easily available (on the web), and also to establish a wiki, forum and bug tracker.[11] These have been available since December 2006.[12]

Operations exist to facilitate tasks related to ROOL's goals. Additionally, staff undertake development work on the code themselves. Since early 2009, ownership, development and sales of the Acorn C/C++ tools were transferred to RISC OS Open.[13] As a development from the initial goals, in 2011 ROOL introduced a bounty scheme to encourage further development.[14]

Attendance at RISC OS computer shows is often arranged, with other knowledgeable coders sometimes standing in when ROOL staff are unavailable.[15] A Facebook page was created in 2012.[16]

Forum

Discussions of a technical and more general nature take place on the forum. A thread entitled "Let's get started with a Pandora port" witnessed discussion of porting to the Cortex-A8 used in the Pandora handheld game console.[17] The thread was started in September 2008.[18]

References

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