Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by repelsteeltje on Friday May 03, 2024 @04:17AM (#40245392)

Having grown up with RISC OS, I never considered lack of multi user an omission. But the lack of process isolation (or simply: lack of processes) was a real head-ache.

No memory protection or hardware access, rudimentary virtual memory "page mapping". Any tardy calls to Wimp_Poll() freezing the entire GUI. "Cooperative multitasking" also means it's still impossible to do something useful with more than 1 Raspberry Pi core.

So: lacking in foundations, yes. But multi user, not so much.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by ajb on Friday May 03, 2024 @06:04AM (#40245954)

Fair. On reflection I agree with all the people that have pointed out that multiuser isn't that important. It was just, historically, the feature that made operating systems become serious about security, which is now essential for other reasons.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by nurettin on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:07AM (#40265437)

After the PC revolution, "User" became synonymous with roles. root, bin, mail, daemon, sshd, www-data are probably some of the users on your system.

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