OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/26720/The_design_behind_RISC_OS_4_and_6 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 05:22:26 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com What's an android/ios-friendly format? http://www.osnews.com/thread?549842 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549842 Something like HTML and EPUB? It sounds like interesting information, just hoping this doesn't turn into some 'monetization' scheme where you have to download a frikkin' app to get the content. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the_randymon) Comments RISCOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?549844 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549844 I'm not a great fan of the direction RISCOS went (I mostly used version 2.0 on the A3xx and A4xx lines at college, plus we had an A3000 at home, but I've use v3.7 and later and hated it.) But these articles at brilliant! Great find! Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (henderson101) Comments RE: What's an android/ios-friendly format? http://www.osnews.com/thread?549846 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549846 I'm pretty sure Justin has no intention to do anything like that; it's more about documenting about 10 years of work and getting 100,000 words off his chest. RISC OS does stuff differently to other OSes, so any dev looking for ideas could check it out. It's all online to read as HTML or via Google Currents for free.Edited 2013-01-22 10:42 UTC Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diodesign) Comments RE: What's an android/ios-friendly format? http://www.osnews.com/thread?549856 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549856
Something like HTML and EPUB? It sounds like interesting information, just hoping this doesn't turn into some 'monetization' scheme where you have to download a frikkin' app to get the content.


I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. The site is just webpages - pretty regular HTML - so I would assume that it's as accessible to Android and iOS devices equally well, although I have neither to test. I believe that plain HTML provides the maximum accessibility for different devices.

As you will see on the site, there is both the web page, the RSS and Atom feeds for summaries, and a 'full text of the last 5 days' RSS feed. Additionally, there's a Google Currents published version of the content at http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowva34Bg/gerphs_risc_os_r... if you prefer that to RSS feeds.

I have a Kindle version of the rambles, but I shaln't be publishing it until the complete rambles have been published on the site. A Kindle document would fix the version, and I would prefer to have edited everything before it is published in such a way. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gerph) Comments RE[2]: What's an android/ios-friendly format? http://www.osnews.com/thread?549872 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549872 I just re-read my comment and I see it makes me sound like a bit of a jerk. Way to go, Justin, if he's just publishing HTML then. I am repeatedly annoyed by content that gets wrapped up into an app or some nonsense that makes it hard to read and share.

And the subject matter is interesting too, so I'll be excited to read it. Anything but boring-old-x86 is interesting stuff. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the_randymon) Comments RE[2]: What's an android/ios-friendly format? http://www.osnews.com/thread?549887 http://www.osnews.com/thread?549887 A PDF version would be awesome! I'd also love to see an iBooks version and creating a free file is pretty trivial if you have access to a Mac. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (henderson101) Comments Comment by marcp http://www.osnews.com/thread?550116 http://www.osnews.com/thread?550116 They could have easily become the kings of the professional operating systems that are both legendary, fast, well-thought and extensible ... BUT ... they're not open source, and this will make their life miserable at best. At worse they can just dissapear, like BeOS. Then we will get some rewrite of the RISCOS code after several years of unnessesarily doubled work.

Come on people, wake up. Open source your stuff. It's not 1980s. The model has changed. Open source works and closed source doesn't work. And that won't change, because if you get a taste of the freedom once, you won't give it away anymore.
You can be either loved by the small group of enthusiasts with big wallets, or by the huge group of enthusiasts willing to pay for support and help. Don't be a prick, for f#@#$'s sake. Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcp) Comments RE: Comment by marcp http://www.osnews.com/thread?550190 http://www.osnews.com/thread?550190
They could have easily become the kings of the professional operating systems that are both legendary, fast, well-thought and extensible ... BUT ... they're not open source, and this will make their life miserable at best. At worse they can just dissapear, like BeOS. Then we will get some rewrite of the RISCOS code after several years of unnessesarily doubled work.

Come on people, wake up. Open source your stuff. It's not 1980s. The model has changed. Open source works and closed source doesn't work. And that won't change, because if you get a taste of the freedom once, you won't give it away anymore.
You can be either loved by the small group of enthusiasts with big wallets, or by the huge group of enthusiasts willing to pay for support and help. Don't be a prick, for f#@#$'s sake.


Open source wouldn't have paid the bills, for me, and closed source barely did - closed source being a requirement of the license. There are those who have a great regard for open source, and honour the agreements that are in place. There are others who don't, and have to be put in their place. But whatever the ideologies, I still try to keep from being insulting to others that have a different viewpoint. Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gerph) Comments RE[2]: Comment by marcp http://www.osnews.com/thread?550313 http://www.osnews.com/thread?550313 Sorry if that insults you. I admit I went a little bit too far. I'm kinda grumpy in the morning hours ;)

Anyway, I do think that FLOSS is the presence and the future, but I accept the ones that are willing to stay with the closed source model. It's their choice [with their profit or loss].

Best regards Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcp) Comments RE: Comment by marcp http://www.osnews.com/thread?550646 http://www.osnews.com/thread?550646 Another lineage of RISC OS is moderately ~open: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS#Post-Acorn_developm... (even if apparently messy at times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISCOS_Ltd#License_dispute )

...which doesn't mean "the kings of the professional operating systems that are both legendary, fast, well-thought and extensible" - RISC OS just isn't that good, it seems. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments