Students of ARM history will know that the origins of the wildly popular processor architecture lie in the British computer manufacturer Acorn (the original “A” in “ARM”). The first mass-market ...

A new release of the Raspberry Pi OS arrived last week. As usual, the release announcement gives a general overview of the most important additions and improvements, and the release notes contain a ...

There are a wide range of different Raspberry Pi OS packages available and choosing the correct one for your hardware, application or project is not always easy. Here we compliled a list of popular ...

I really liked the Acorn computers we had at school. I remember the user experience being leaps and bounds ahead of what the early IBM compatible PCs had to offer at the time. I also learnt to program ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The original ARM operating system RISC OS has gone open source. The OS itself was originally developed by Acorn ...

A new Kickstarter project has launched this month, looking for backers to help build a power saving computer operating system and push RISC OS to more hardware platforms. German developer Stefan ...

Over the last few years the open-source RISC-V microprocessor has moved from existing only on FPGAs into real silicon, and right now you can buy a RISC-V microcontroller with all the bells and ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

Last year Microsoft announced that it would be ending support for Windows Mixed Reality and, sure enough, when the company begin rolling out Windows 11 24H2 this week it no longer included support for ...

Three and a half years after launching the Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 microcontroller, Raspberry Pi has introduced new versions of each that bring a number of upgrades. While Raspberry Pi is best ...

OrangePi RV2 uses RISC-V CPU architecture, an alternative to x86 and ARM. RV2 offers 8-core Ky X1 RISC-V AI CPU, with 2TOPS ...