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Haiku inches closer to next beta release And when a Redox monthly progress report is here, Haiku's monthly report is never far behind (or vice versa, depending on the month). Haiku's February was definitely a busy month,...

06.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Redox gets NodeJS, COSMIC's compositor, and much more February has been a busy month for Redox, the general purpose operating system written in Rust. For instance, the COSMIC compositor can now run on Redox as a winit window,...

06.03.2026 21:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details One day, I suddenly wondered how to detect when a USB device is plugged or unplugged from a computer running Linux. For most users, this would be solved by relying...

05.03.2026 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Oracle Solaris CBE release released Oracle's Solaris 11 basically comes in two different flavours: the SRU (Support Repository Update) releases for commercial Oracle customers, and the CBE (Common Build Environment) releases, available to everyone. We've...

05.03.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The great license-washing has begun In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult. It usually requires the unanimous consent of every person who has ever contributed a line of code, a feat nearly...

05.03.2026 21:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

DOS memory management The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention. ↫ Michal Necasek at...

05.03.2026 19:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Lock scroll with a vengeance What's the scroll lock key actually for? Scroll Lock was reportedly specifically added for spreadsheets, and it solved a very specific problem: before mice and trackpads, and before fast graphic...

04.03.2026 22:47 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The new MacBook Neo is a great deal in the US, not so much in Europe Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new kind of low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip for $599. The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by...

04.03.2026 22:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never bet against x86 Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive into Arm's latest core design, and I have thoughts. Arm now has a core with enough performance to take on not only...

03.03.2026 23:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 64-bit Hurd for Gux is here Fifteen months have passed since our last Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60 post and a lot has happened with respect to the Hurd. And most of you will have guessed,...

03.03.2026 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Setting up phones is a nightmare Have you bought and set up a new phone for someone else lately, especially someone less technologically savvy? It's a bit of a nightmare, with an endless list of confusing...

02.03.2026 22:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft really doesn't want you to use the name "Microslop" Microsoft is pushing "AI" hard in Windows, Office, and in their other products, and it's earned them a cute new nickname: Microslop. It turns out the company really doesn't like...

02.03.2026 20:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

KDE makes steady progress on Union, its unified theme engine If you're following KDE Plasma development, you've most likely run into something called Union, a project KDE is working on to unify their various ways of theming their applications. The...

02.03.2026 13:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can use newline characters in URLs I had no idea, but apparently, you can just use newline characters and tabs in URLs without any issues. Notice how it reports an error if there is a tab...

01.03.2026 21:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Run this random script in the terminal to block Apple's macOS Tahoe update notification spam Are you not at all interested in upgrading to macOS Tahoe, and getting annoyed at the relentless notification spam from Apple trying to trick you into upgrading? The secret? Using...

28.02.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Windows 95 user interface: a case study in usability engineering If this isn't catnip to the average OSNews reader, I don't know what is. Windows 95 is a comprehensive upgrade to the Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 products....

28.02.2026 21:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bootc and OSTree: modernizing Linux system deployment Bootc and OSTree represent a new way of thinking about Linux system deployment and management. Building on container and versioning concepts, they offer robust and modern solutions to meet the...

28.02.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Windows Server Insider builds can now boot from ReFS The file system of the Windows operating system is NTFS, whether you're running it on a desktop/laptop or server. It's the only file system Windows can run on and boot...

27.02.2026 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

US lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level Encryption backdoors, social media bans for children, creepy age verification for applications - what will they think of next? The latest brilliant idea by US lawmakers sure is a hell...

27.02.2026 22:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jails for NetBSD FreeBSD has its jails technology, and it seems NetBSD might be getting something similar soon. Jails for NetBSD aims to bring lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation to NetBSD. [...] The system is...

27.02.2026 21:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Genode OS Framework 26.02 released The Genode OS Framework 26.02 has been released, and its tentpole improvement is the completion of moving configuration from XML to the new human-inclined data syntax, as we talked about...

26.02.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Linuxulator on FreeBSD feels like magic" You may not be aware that FreeBSD has a pretty robust set of tools to run Linux binaries, unmodified. The result? A fast, smooth, fully-featured remote development experience on FreeBSD...

26.02.2026 21:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

US orders diplomats in the EU to fight data sovereignty initiatives It seems the widespread efforts in Europe to drastically reduce its dependency on US technology companies is starting to worry some people. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats...

26.02.2026 21:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Never buy a .online domain" I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of...

25.02.2026 23:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can add a menu bar to KDE title bars with this tool, for some reason Only a few days ago we talked about the concept of client-side decorations, and how more and more desktop environments and operating systems - specifically GNOME and macOS - are...

25.02.2026 22:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Windows update adds Sysmon to Windows Microsoft released a optional cumulative update for Windows 11, and for once, it actually includes something many of you might actually like: it adds Sysmon from Sysinternals to Windows natively,...

25.02.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you've been holding on to a phone for a while, current phones are really disappointing This must be a universal experience at this point for people who aren't swayed by the latest and greatest marketing hype around new phone models: there's just nothing out there...

24.02.2026 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The age-verification trap: verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content,...

24.02.2026 20:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GTK-NoCSD: an LD_PRELOAD library to disable CSDs While Libadwaita applications running in a GNOME desktop environment look great and nicely consistent, they look utterly out of place and jarring when run in Xfce, Pantheon, KDE, and others....

23.02.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OpenBSD: anatomy of bsd.rd Every OpenBSD admin has booted bsd.rd at least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system. But few people stop to look at what’s actually inside that file....

23.02.2026 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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