Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Oct 2009 22:24 UTC, submitted by Andrew Duffell
RISC OS With all the good news around Haiku and Amiga/MorphOS, you'd almost forget that other "old" alternative operating system, with most of its following residing in the United Kingdom: RISC OS. This operating system is fighting a predictable problem: a lack of hardware.
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Nice to see...
by madcrow on Thu 29th Oct 2009 23:23 UTC
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... a classic "alternate" computing platform embracing cheap and easily available hardware like the Beagle Board. I wish people well in their quest and hope that this sets a good example for a certain other classic OS enviroment as to why open source (or at least semi-open source) can provide great benefits for platforms with small but loyal groups of fans.