Operating Systems Stories for 2009

Embedded OS RTEMS Turns 21 54
The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade 378
VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels 289
ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share 296
Samsung Enters Smartphone Wars With Bada OS 175
VMware's Dual OS Smartphone Virtualization Plan Firms Up 179
Nokia Offers Glimpse of Symbian Facelift 114
What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For 216
OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? 405
FreeBSD 8.0 Released 235
Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook, More 193
Chrome OS and Android "Will Likely Converge" In the Future 155
Microsoft, Other Rivals Slam Google Chrome OS 324
Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine 289
Google Releases Source To Chromium OS 664
40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009 138
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors 1012
Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users 433
Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android 244
Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting 328
A Tale of Two Windows 7s 770
Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 483
Acer Launching Dual Android/Windows 7 Netbook 105
New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop 81
First Moblin V2 Netbook Launches 70
Old Operating Systems Never Die 875
OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users 303
After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha 411
Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch 342
Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released 374
Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware 360
Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? 227
Running Old Desktops Headless? 347
Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm's WebOS 1.2 43
Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7" 359
OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 688
Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync 290
FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign 926
Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code 183
Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus 335
Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows 756
Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision 330
China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy 164
Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market 257
Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly 419
Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price 487
Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" 318
World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel 517
Xbox Gaming Platform To Span Web, Console, Mobile 33
No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners 198
Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" 241
How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? 491
Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? 396
Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download 152
Best Free Open Source Software For Windows 324
Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips 93
CentOS Administrator Reappears 211
Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too 284
CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL 492
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook 397
92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash 286
Ivan Krstić Says Negroponte's Wrong About Sugar and OLPC 137
Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen 438
Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle 194
Windows 7 Hits RTM At Build 7600.16385 341
Linux Distributions' Tracking of Upstream Projects Examined 132
Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake 268
A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? 174
Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works 310
Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe 803
Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time 164
Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey 429
Symbian Foundation Takes First Step In Open Sourcing Mobile OS 88
Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9 170
Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners 343
Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 1089
RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? 564
London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438
Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine 389
One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong 538
Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50
Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? 536
Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU 548
FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today 124
Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? 259
Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing 821
A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. 85
Apple Issues Firmware Upgrade For MacBook Pro 52
GPL Firmware For Canon 5D Mk II Adds Features For Filmmakers 117
Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks 263
SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm 95
Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops 567
A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems 85
EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move 484
Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled 578
Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time 169
Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released 341
Palm's webOS Root Image Leaks Out 176
Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS 361
Fedora 11 Is Now Available 195
Unix Turns 40 254
Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds 251
KDE 4.2.4 Released 153
AMD Demos DirectX 11-Capable ATI Graphics Card 107
Google's Android To Challenge Windows? 269
Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7 182
Qualcomm Demos Eee PC Running Android OS 125
When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails 361
EU Wants Multiple Browser Bundling On New PCs 464
Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems? 289
Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition 352
Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed 248
Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? 130
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released 334
Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market 369
Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook 250
Is Linux's "Overall Market Share" Statistic Meaningful? 300
US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista 374
First Look At VMware's vSphere "Cloud OS" 86
MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition 316
The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers 350
Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User 727
64-Bit Slackware Is Alive 164
What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? 229
Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher 485
Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20 212
Hardware-Accelerated Graphics On SGI O2 Under NetBSD 75
Phoenix BIOSOS? 394
Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs 256
Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans 403
R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 240
MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization 315
When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct 418
Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk 613
Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista 821
LKML Summary Podcast 41
Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows 710
The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share 409
First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook 435
Microsoft Not Ditching Vista Until At Least 2011 297
FreeBSD 7.2 Released 204
A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode 137
No Russian Operating System, At Least For Now 105
Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force 507
Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share 414
Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009 127
OpenBSD 4.5 Released 118
Windows 7 RC Rush Crashes MSDN, TechNet Pages 186
NetBSD 5.0 Released 129
Microsoft To Disable Autorun 429
Mandriva 2009 Spring Released 96
Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research 376
Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? 413
Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? 209
Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly 121
Windows 7 To Include "Windows XP Mode" 364
Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers As They Look Forward To Windows 8 386
Ubuntu 9.04 Released 620
"Good Enough" Computers Are the Future 515
First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box 114
Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only 695
Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5 321
A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? 470
Antitrust Regulators To Monitor Windows 7, But Not Later Releases 105
Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps 92
83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 545
PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager 81
Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story 833
Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection 110
Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install 420
Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP 580
Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm 86
XP Reprieve, Downgrade May Continue After Win7 392
Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration 774
IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT 291
Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support 425
Linux Foundation To Host Intel's Moblin Project 30
Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider 290
Ubuntu vs. Windows In OpenOffice.org Benchmark 262
The "Vista-Capable" Debacle Spreads To Acer 133
Windows 7 Touchscreen Details Emerging 152
Windows 7 RC Download Page Points To May Release 183
10 OSes We Left Behind 562
Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux 615
All Five Smartphones Survive Pwn2Own Contest 144
Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release 316
Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? 241
Linux Kernel Benchmarks, 2.6.24-2.6.29 38
UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 342
Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released 265
Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips 626
Did the Netbook Improve Windows 7's Performance? 440
Windows Home Directory Encryption? 121
2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux 258
Symbian Introduces Open Source Release Plan 92
Romanians Find Cure For Conficker 145
Windows Security and On-line Training Courses? 189
French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu 368
PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold 90
How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development 483
Living Free With Linux, Round 2 936
Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec 685
A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD 43
UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7 496
Windows 7 Kill Switch For IE Confirmed — For More Apps, Too 208
Windows 7 Lets You Uninstall IE8 474
Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe 422
Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware 195
Windows Server 2008 One Year On — Hit Or Miss? 386
Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? 394
VMware Demos Two Operating Systems On Mobile Phone 52
The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 496
Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop 192
Which Distro For an Eee PC? 466
Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala 305
DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released 44
Microsoft Says No Profit In Vista-XP Downgrades 315
MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs 289
1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began 187
Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native 493
Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8 332
Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS 300
Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation 494
BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith 448
Beginning Portable Shell Scripting 186
Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based 242
The Incredible Shrinking Operating System 345
Firefox Exec Says Windows Bundling Is a Bad Idea 413
Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More 842
February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 376
Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD 166
A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane 238
The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool 165
Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 249
Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? 559
Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks 781
Users' Admin Logins Make Most Windows Malware Worse 420
Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source 555
MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 758
Microsoft Ramps Up "Fix it" Support Tool 144
Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux 791
New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE 262
Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397
Security Hole In Windows 7 UAC 388
Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension 803
NetBSD 5.0 RC1 Released 158
More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009 369
Moblin 2 First Impressions 100
Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate 856

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