____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 11 September 2007 07:30 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 September 2007 16:50 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> RISC OS-on-Linux project prepares live CD
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| An ambitious initiative to eventually run RISC OS desktop software on
>>>>| Linux-powered PCs took a step closer to reality this month.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact2058.html
>>>>
>>>> Many roads intersect at Linux. Syllable OS took a similar route recently
>>>> (see the links at the very bottom).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that, in the end, free software will be at the top of all of
>>> these trees. I sincerely hope that the freedos project keeps moving, as
>>> it would be a shame not to be able to natively run free software on very
>>> low-spec older x86 hardware, too.
>>>
>>> Still, roll-on the acorn desktop onto linux :-)
>>
>> RISC OS is no longer a proprietary layer (can't recall how their shared
>> source
>> licence worked, but I think they looked the GPL), so there's room for
>> reuse. Mix and match for best fits...
>>
>
> Unfortunately, they came to this party about a decade too late. Had
> they done this a few years ago, then RiscOS and ARM might've been the
> main competition for Wintel, rather than Lintel, on the admittedly
> decreasingly important desktop space.
Well, what about Sun? Linux would barely grow if Sun aligned with the Linux
development model. Jonathan expressed his regrets too.
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