Snaps leak of RISC OS5 on Beagleboard
A SNAP of an RISC OS 5, running on a Beagleboard device powered by a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with a built-in graphics chip, has tipped up on the world wide wibble.
The port developed by Jeffrey Lee is a breakthrough for the shared-source project because it has ported the OS without an army of engineers. The snap shows the Beagleboard and RISC OS 5 booting from a ROM image built with 256M of RAM and reaching a command-line.
According to Drobe, the core of the operating system is able to drive a monitor via a DVI connector and connects with the rest of the universe by a serial port. Lee wants to bring in better USB support so that a keyboard and mouse can be attached, providing all one needs for a cheap computer.
The Beagleboard uses sod all juice and sells for about 100 quid. It is based on an ARM-compatible Texas Instruments OMAP350. It has a built-in OpenGL-compliant graphics processor to speed up 2D and 3D drawing to the screen, a maths unit mainly for processing streams of data, memory card slots, audio in and out, USB and other interfaces. µ
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Old Yella didn't make you cry, did it?
The CPU on the beagle board is the OMAP3430 which is used in quite a few up-coming phone designs (see the announcements at MWC in February).
So it's quite a powerful package.
Whilst the underlining OS may be very old and out of date, the GUI is still top notch and worth having isn't it?
I wish other OSes allows me to update a vital OS library files and not have to reboot.
I also love the ability to simply move an application to any drive or folder and hey it doesn't need to be reinstalled or have other files informed of the move.
This a great move forward.
@KB
So what?, why the bitterness?, had a bad experience in the past? or maybe you have never had any for a decent amount of time?. Even if all the RISC OS companies stopped developing it you would still have people using it, flip, If there was only one person left that person would probably be me, I dislike using anything other for Design work.