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    RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2338

    Awesome, if you've got one of these little things.
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Awesome, been waiting for this

    Will get one for Christmas I think! I still have my A440
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Hmm tempted to get one and have a play, never actually experienced RISC !

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    I'll try it out, will be interesting to use another OS that isn't Windows/Linux/BSD/DOS

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Wonder if "Lander" will run

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Sadly not, as Lander required assembly.

    Anything in BBC BASIC will of course run without issue.
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Just had a very brief play with it, it's cool. I was pretty disappointed with how slow Raspbian runs, modern desktop debian just isn't designed/written for the pi. But RISC OS boots really quickly, and feels snappy, which is awesome.

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Makes for a great safe surfing device, after all, the likelihood of any internet based malware running on RISC OS is quite slim.

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Quote Originally Posted by BobF64 View Post
    Makes for a great safe surfing device, after all, the likelihood of any internet based malware running on RISC OS is quite slim.
    Don't get me wrong, I loved risk OS, the star prompt, so much to love.

    It's security model is piss poor..... Who are we kidding, it doesn't even have a security model.
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    It's security model is piss poor..... Who are we kidding, it doesn't even have a security model.
    I think you could safely say the security model would be based entirely around security by obscurity.

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    I think you could safely say the security model would be based entirely around security by obscurity.
    But it wasn't obscure enough, as the demand for a product from Pineapple Software IIRC showed!
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    But it wasn't obscure enough, as the demand for a product from Pineapple Software IIRC showed!
    Whilst its not immune from RISC OS based viruses, and theyre probably still around somewhere, only some like the Module virus will still function as they were written in BASIC.

    The majority of threats on the internet are aimed at Windows, OS X and occassionally linux, or more specifically, applications that run on those platforms.

    Is it completely secure, and can you be as smug and conceited as Mac users used to be? no, but at least its vastly less likely to succumb to some script kiddie virus or web exploit.

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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Quote Originally Posted by BobF64 View Post
    Is it completely secure, and can you be as smug and conceited as Mac users used to be?
    Used to be? Most still are.

    The issue with RISC OS, create folder starting with !, lets say !Foo, then put in a bat file called !Boot, do what you want.....

    Kinda an issue really. For epic lols you then put it on HardDisc4........

    Anyway, this is what its all about:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_directory

    Like I say, I do love my RISC OS, but secure, designed for a networked environment with all the threats that brings, it most certainly is not.
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    The harddisk in my A440 has exactly that 'problem'. I made a password application and used the !Boot method.

    Fifteen years on and I have no idea what the password is, so I can't get past it

    I was going to hook the drive up and look at the data with a hex-editor or something....until I realised its pre-IDE

    There has to be a command line to edit the files without it executing !Boot....I've just not looked into it.
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    just press SHIFT + CTRL while booting.......
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    Re: RISC OS now on the Raspberry Pi

    Will try it out, it's in the loft at the moment. Cheers mate
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