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RISC OS Select 1st Release Out

Posted by timothy on from the be-the-first-on-your-block dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "RISC OS Select, *the* OS for ARM powered computers has seen its first release. RISC OS started back in 1994, by Acorn computers, but when they went down, RISC OS Ltd purchased the rights, and released RISC OS 4 in 1999. In 2000 the Select program was started, and a rolling program of OS updates was initiated. Now, the first real release (after several pre-releases) is there: ROS Select 4.29 It features multi-user logon, DHCP, SVG graphics support, over 100 enhancements over the old ROS 4 more info at http://select.riscos.com and http://www.riscos.org."

2 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Long time by 1155 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This seems like a long amount of time for a update, especially with the multi-user environment update in mind. Who has actually used this os before?

  2. Re:Compete with Windows? by doorbot.com · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The beauty of RISC OS though, is its sheer productivity and intuitiveness

    Neither of which can be measured reliably, and both of which are abitrary to begin with...

    But it does sound good -- I'll bet the marketing chaps wrote that one.