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Nationwide bill to put age verification in operating systems introduced in the US The title of my article on age verification in Linux and other operating systems had a "for now" added for a reason, and here we are, with two members of...
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Tribblix m34 for SPARC released Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, doesn't only support x86. It also has a branch for SPARC, which tends to run behind its x86...
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Haiku on ARM64 boots to desktop in QEMU Another Haiku monthly activity report, but this time around, there's actually a big ticket item. Haiku has been in a pretty solid and stable state for a while now, so...
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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a...
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Let sleeping CPUs lie — S0ix Modern laptops promise a kind of magic. Shut the lid or press the sleep button, toss it in a backpack, and hours, days, or weeks later, it should wake up...
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Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it A few weeks ago, Microsoft made some concrete promises about fixing and improving Windows, and among them was removing useless "AI" integrations. Applications like Notepad, Snipping Tool, and others would...
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Scientists invented an obviously fake illness, and "AI" spread it like truth within weeks Ever heard of a condition called bixonimania? Did you search the internet or ask your "AI" girlfriend about some symptoms you were experiencing, and this was its answer? Well... The...
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Linux 7.0 released Version 7.0 of the Linux kernel has been released, marking the arbitrary end of the 6.x series. Significant changes in this release include the removal of the "experimental" status for...
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The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet It shouldn't be a surprise that companies - and for our field, technology companies specifically - working with the defense industry tends to raise eyebrows. With things like the genocide...
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FreeBSD works best on one of these laptops If you want to run FreeBSD on a laptop, you're often yanked back to the Linux world of 20 years ago, with many components and parts not working and other...
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Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs It may sound unbelievable to some, but not everyone has a datacenter beast with 128GB of VRAM shoved in their desktop PCs. Around the world people tell the tale of...
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Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? You might have seen this, one of the strangest and most primitive experiences in macOS, where you’re asked to press keys next to left Shift and right Shift, whatever they...
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USB for software developers This post aims to be a high level introduction to using USB for people who may not have worked with Hardware too much yet and just want to use the...
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Redox sees another months of improvements The months keep coming, and thus, the monthly progress reports keep coming, too, for Redox, the new general purpose operating system written in Rust. This past month, there's been considerable...
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah ported to Nintendo Wii Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. In this...
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Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system From 2024, but still accurate and interesting: Plan 9 is unique in this sense that everything the system needs is covered by the base install. This includes the compilers, graphical...
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Anos: a hobby microkernel operating system written in C Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3 microkernel,...
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The 499th patch for 2.11BSD released This year sees 35 years since 2.11BSD was announced on March 14, 1991 - itself a slightly late celebration of 20 years of the PDP-11 - and January 2026 brought...
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KDE is bringing back its classic Oxygen and Air themes Anyone remember the KDE 4.0 themes Oxygen and Air? Well, several KDE developers have been working tirelessly to bring them back, which means they're patching it up, fixing bugs, and...
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"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." This is a great post, but obviously it hasn't convinced me: The folks waving their arms and yelling about recent models' capabilities have a point: the thing works. This project...
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Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason If you're using Windows or macOS and have Adobe Creative Cloud installed, you may want to take a peek at your hosts file. It turns out Adobe adds a bunch...
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TinyOS: ultra-lightweight RTOS for IoT devices An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained IoT and embedded devices. Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling. ↫ TinyOS GitHub page Written in C,...
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Redox gets new CPU scheduler Another major improvement in Redox: a brand new scheduler which improves performance under load considerably. We have replaced the legacy Round Robin scheduler with a Deficit Weighted Round Robin scheduler....
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Open source office suites erupt in forking and licensing drama You'd think if there was one corner of the open source world where you wouldn't find drama it'd be open source office suites, but it turns out we could not...
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How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the...
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Big-endian testing with QEMU I assume I don't have to explain the difference between big-endian and little-endian systems to the average OSNews reader, and while most systems are either dual-endian or (most likely) little-endian,...
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How to Resolve Emails Disappearing from Outlook Folders Issue? Outlook users often face issues while working with the application. The “emails disappearing from folders” is one of the common issues that several users have reported on tech forums recently....
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How to turn anything into a router I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous...
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Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub Why do so many people keep falling for the same trick over and over again? With an over $400 billion gap between the money invested in AI data centers and...
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Capability-based security for Redox: namespace and CWD as capabilities By reimplementing these features using capabilities, we made the kernel simpler by moving complex scheme and namespace management out of it which improved security and stability by reducing the attack...
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