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‘RISC OS on Linux’ Releases Alpha Live CD

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The RISC OS On Linux project has released the first alpha-quality version of their live CD. “A first attempt at a Live CD has been uploaded here (169MB download, a bzipped iso), the space has been kindly donated by Ned Abell. This CD should boot into a desktop with Tux on the right and disc icons for /home/rolf and /tmp, on the left of the Iconbar. In /home/rolf are three apps that should work immediately, !Terminal, !Viewer and !Vim. !NetSurf needs a little help to run, as does Inkscape, which has no application directory yet.” ROLF is a user space layer above the Linux Kernel, providing a superset of the RISC OS look and feel on Linux.

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11 Comments

  1. 2007-10-01 8:51 pm
    cyclops

    It should be Risc/Linux I will not reply to further comments except to people who use the term Risc/Linux not Linux.

    • 2007-10-01 8:57 pm
      Kroc Silver Supporter

      Write a greasemonkey script to rename that for you, and then grow up.

      • 2007-10-01 9:02 pm
        MYOB

        I’ve a feeling your sarcasm detector is somewhat off, either that or this place has actually become Slashdot in the past few days.

      • 2007-10-05 10:36 am
        stestagg

        ROFL!

        … or ROLF?

  2. 2007-10-01 8:53 pm
    Kroc Silver Supporter

    I’d like to see how this progresses during Beta. My biggest worries are fundamental “Linux-isms” plaguing the design in the final product. A Linux WM with a RISC OS skin, RISC OS does not make. RISC OS is a good OS because the way it is designed from the ground up. I wish them the best in creating something that maintains the innovative and fun process behind RISC OS.

  3. 2007-10-02 9:34 am
    memson

    … I turned on my A7000 the other day. Then I shut it down again, happy in the knowledge I can leave it off for another 6 months and not feel like I never use it anymore. If anybody can source me an RISCPC ethernet card dead cheap, maybe I’d use it more often though 😉

    • 2007-10-03 3:13 pm
      nexie

      i might be abke to help there depend on what you think a price is and if you can wait until i get to my secret riscos box neil at cloudsprinter flop com

  4. 2007-10-02 11:15 am
    flibble

    Anyone had any luck making this work under vmware? seems to be an issue with not have access to the frame buffer fb0/dev

  5. 2007-10-02 2:49 pm
    Downix

    It’s not like RiscOS is dead, after all.

  6. 2007-10-02 7:12 pm
    tbcpp

    And the interface is still as ugly as it ever was. And this coming from a guy who doesn’t mind Irix’s 4dwm.