The new version of RISC OS, the original native Arm OS, runs on eight or nine Arm-based platforms, including the Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3 and 4 – and on the last two, this release supports wireless networking.
Configure RISC OS from scratch.
RISC OS 5.30 comes with a large selection of applications, and many more are available online (click to enlarge)
RISC OS 5.30 is the latest version of Acorn's original operating system for its Arm processors. Original, but not first: As Acornsoft project manager Paul Fellows told Reg 2022, what was then called "Arthur" replaced a much more ambitious project called ARX, which never shipped. ROS 5.30 is the first stable release from the RISC OS Open (aka ROOL) project since version 5.28 in 2020. (If you have it, you can upgrade in place.)
RISC OS Open project manager Steve Revill, who we interviewed last year, told us:
