Operating Systems Stories for 2012

Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge 561
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD 149
FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control 210
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% 245
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself 102
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% 310
NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish 269
Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year 712
BlackBerry 10 Preview Looks Positive 122
The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed 179
Linux Mint 14 Is Out 129
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL 162
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? 313
Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft 417
BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 117
Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100 114
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads 635
Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released 85
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
OpenBSD 5.2 Released 141
Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7 87
Android Will Surpass Windows By 2016, Say Gartner Stats 149
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 403
CyanogenMod Android ROMs Accidentally Logged Screen Unlock Patterns 69
Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP 727
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? 503
ACM Queue Interviews Robert Watson On Open Source Hardware and Research 37
Kaspersky's Exploit-Proof OS Leaves Security Experts Skeptical 196
Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth 98
Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers 297
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works 318
NetBSD 6.0 Has Shipped 124
Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals 234
Kaspersky To Build Secure OS For SCADA Systems 165
Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? 344
The Story of Nokia MeeGo 125
Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot 308
OS Upgrades Powered By Git 92
Adam Dunkels On the Internet of Things 27
HP Releases Open webOS 1.0 51
Slackware 14.0 Arrives 183
Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 436
Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? 867
Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely 269
XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap 63
iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours 513
Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone 114
GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline 154
Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 484
AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product' 229
Google Pressured Acer/Alibaba Because of Android Compatibility Issues 255
Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low 286
Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android 352
The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs 195
Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? 460
For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread 257
OpenSUSE 12.2 Is Out 96
Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 249
Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista 540
The True Challenges of Desktop Linux 505
HP Launches Beta of Open webOS 56
Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years 174
How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop 933
Haiku OS Ported To Intel 64-Bit Architecture 101
OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked 130
Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs 330
Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? 673
Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi 75
CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release 75
Google Granted Cloud OS Patent 143
SUSE Slowly Shows UEFI Secure Boot Plan 190
How Haiku Is Building a Better BeOS 137
MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes 286
ReactOS Presented To Russian President Putin 155
UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand 521
Android 4 Coming To the Raspberry Pi 99
Gartner Analyst Retracts "Windows 8 Is Bad" Claim 306
Linux 3.5 Released 277
Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S 104
Debian Derivative Optimized for the Raspbery Pi Released 95
MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal 63
OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs 417
Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August 343
Ex-Nokia Staff To Build MeeGo-based Smartphones 200
Telefonica Shows Prototype Firefox OS Phone 91
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review 255
FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot 296
Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8 442
On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First 305
Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot 393
Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? 118
Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users 242
How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs 202
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? 1027
OpenSUSE Team Reworking Dev Model, Delays 12.2 Release 38
MorphOS 3.0 Released: Refusing To Let the PPC Desktop OS Die Gracefully 214
Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software 490
Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012 110
Intel Builds On Top of Android, But Hedges On Open-Sourcing Improvements 156
Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download 363
Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? 213
Fedora 17 Released 141
The State of Linux Accessibility 138
Linux 3.4 Released 385
DreamHammer Wants To Corner the Drone OS Market 125
LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing 114
The 30 Best Features of Windows 470
Google Talks About Its Ubuntu Experience 230
Nokia Faces Class-Action Suit Over Windows Phone Deal 257
Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released 135
BlackBerry 10 Unveiled 185
Microsoft Forges Ahead With New Home-Automation OS 196
RIM's Future Hangs On Developer Support For 'New BlackBerry' 148
Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS 255
Did Microsoft Simply Run Out of Time On Windows RT? 305
Operators: Nokia Would Sell Better With Android 439
The Fixes That Google Chrome OS Still Needs To Make 128
End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare 646
Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager 162
25 Years of IBM's OS/2 342
Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC 343
Linux 3.3 Released 314
The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop 590
'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie 399
Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android 113
Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview 500
MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes 120
DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released 102
Microsoft Killing Off Zune, Windows Live Brands? 262
Playbook OS 2.0 Released 90
The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal 142
Canonical Puts Ubuntu On Android Smartphones 155
Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 50
An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 658
HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android 203
Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too 84
Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents 642
Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel 267
Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux 290
Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware 179
HP To Open Source WebOS 137
VirtualBSD 9.0 Released 65
Intel Relying On Ice Cream Sandwich For Tablet Push 215
Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released 169
Tizen Gets Boost From Bada Merger 29
Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented 431
Tizen Source Code Released 71
Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up 146
Linux 3.2 Has Been Released 271
FreeDOS 1.1 Released 266
What's Keeping You On XP? 879
Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS 286