Operating Systems Stories for 2019

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Now Available For Download 39
'My Business Card Runs Linux' 65
Volkswagen Has 'massive' Software Problems With New ID3 Electric Vehicles 107
Facebook is Building an Operating System So it Can Ditch Android 141
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps 176
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Windows 10 Mobile Reaches End of Support 55
Two of China's Largest Tech Firms Are Uniting To Create a New 'Domestic OS' 93
Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers 266
elementary OS 5.1 'Hera' Linux Distro is Here 42
Rust-Based Redox OS Is Nearly Self-Hosting After Four Years 62
Linux 5.4 Released 35
Zorin OS 15 Lite Linux Distro Can Rejuvenate Your Aging Windows PC 69
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
Google Wants Android To Use Regular Linux Kernel 87
Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Windows 10 November 2019 Update 42
'Platinum' Hacking Group Strikes Again With Complex Titanium Backdoor To Windows 14
Bill Gates Thinks Windows Mobile Would Have Beaten Android Without Microsoft's Antitrust Woes 254
Chrome OS 78 Rolling Out With Picture-In-Picture Support For YouTube, Split Browser/Device Settings, More 15
The Original Google Pixel Will Get One Final Update In December 47
Android Bug Lets Hackers Plant Malware Via NFC Beaming 14
Fedora 31 Released 68
iOS 13.2 Released With Deep Fusion, Siri Privacy Settings 23
The Pixel 4's 90Hz Display Only Works At High Brightness Levels 29
Android Pie Passes 20% Adoption After 12 Months 36
Google Says a Fix For Pixel 4 Face Unlock Is 'Months' Away 32
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Eoan Ermine with GNOME 3.34, Light Theme, and Raspberry Pi 4 Support 50
Interview With Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller On 15 Years of Fedora 48
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
Google's Next Pixelbook Is Basically a MacBook That Runs Chrome OS 44
System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware 29
Fedora Drops 32-Bit Linux 28
'Collapse OS' Is An Open-Source Operating System For the Post-Apocalypse 106
Linus Torvalds Isn't Worried About Microsoft Taking Over Linux 141
macOS Catalina is Available To Download Today 57
MorphOS 3.12 Released 26
Microsoft Announces Windows 10X For Dual-Screen PCs 36
Docker Is In Deep Trouble 141
As 'CentOS Stream' Brings Rolling Releases, Some RHEL Development Moves Into CentOS Project 15
Ubuntu Linux 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' Beta Available For Download 41
Why So Many Apps Are Asking To Use Bluetooth on iOS 13 51
The /e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available 43
Android 10 Go Edition Improves Speed and Security For Low-cost Phones 18
Windows 10 Is Used On Over 900 Million Devices 115
Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood 98
Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs 25
Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling 238
Latest Lakka Release On Raspberry Pi 4 Showcases Great Retro Gaming 11
iOS 13 Ships With Known Lockscreen Bypass Flaw That Exposes Contacts 19
Apple's iOS 13 Just Launched But iOS 13.1, iPadOS Arrive Next Week 51
Fedora Linux 31 Beta is Here 19
Google Preps 'Smart Screenshots' Feature To Let You Search With a Screenshot 17
CentOS 8 To Be Released Next Week 25
Volkswagen's Bold Plan To Create a New Car OS 63
Arch Linux-based Manjaro 18.1.0 'Juhraya' Now Available With GNOME, KDE, or Xfce 17
Thousands of Servers Infected With New Lilocked (Lilu) Ransomware 71
Exploit For Wormable BlueKeep Windows Bug Released Into the Wild 24
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
Ask Slashdot: What Would Computing Look Like Today If the Amiga Had Survived? 221
Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update 45
Microsoft Unveils New Tablet Experience For Windows 10 21
Huawei in Talks To Install Russian OS On Tablets For Country's Population Census 40
Runkeeper Will Stop Supporting Wear OS 'in a Few Weeks' 10
Slashdot Asks: Do You (Ever) Shut Down Your Computer? 304
HarmonyOS is Huawei's Android Alternative For Smartphones, Laptops and Smart Home Devices 80
Samsung's DeX On Note 10 Brings Phone Apps To Your PC 32
Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Version Released 69
Linux Performs Poorly In Low RAM / Memory Pressure Situations On The Desktop 569
Why Canonical Views the Snap Ecosystem as a Compelling Distribution-Agnostic Solution 93
Huawei Tests Smartphone With Own OS, Could Potentially Start Selling Them Later This Year 70
Ubuntu-Based Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is Here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce 96
Chrome 76 Arrives With Flash Blocked By Default 87
It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments 228
200 Million Devices -- Some Mission-Critical -- Vulnerable To Remote Takeover 46
76% of UK's National Health Service PCs Not on Windows 10 Despite Looming Deadline 150
Dropbox Irks Mac Users With Annoying Dock Icon, Offers Clueless Support 67
SUSE Names Melissa Di Donato New CEO 87
Russian Lawmakers Propose Making Local Software Mandatory on Smartphones 52
Huawei Says Hongmeng OS Isn't Designed as an Android Replacement 33
Dropbox Accidentally Installed New File Manager App On Users' Systems 74
Making the Case For a Microsoft Surface Phone That Runs Android 73
Microsoft is Making Windows 10 Passwordless 247
Microsoft Stirs Suspicions By Adding Telemetry Files To Security-Only Update 154
iOS 13 Will Add Fake Eye Contact To FaceTime For Improved Intimacy 73
Microsoft Is Teasing Windows 1.0 and Other 1980s Software 67
Mageia 7 Linux Distro Released 92
Microsoft Seeks To Join the Official Linux-Distros Mailing List 113
Microsoft is Notifying Users If Their Devices Aren't Ready For Windows 10 1903 57
Ubuntu Reverses Decision, Says It Will Continue To Support 32-bit Packages 94
Millions of Dell PCs Vulnerable To Flaw In Pre-Installed Software 30
Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Now Available On Windows 7 and Windows 8 58
Microsoft's Plan To Split OS From Shell Takes Shape 128
Why New York's Subway Still Uses OS/2 197
Ask Slashdot: Should All OSs Ship With a Programming Language Built In? 307
SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple Executes Its Invisible Transition Strategy 44
Huawei Started Serving Ads On Phone Lock Screens Without Asking Users' Permission 71
Google Made a Video Game That Lets You Build Video Games 36
Interviews: For the 25th Birthday of FreeDOS, Ask Its Founder A Question 94
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature 91
Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Is Ditching VLC for GNOME MPV 186
Mouse Support In iOS 13 and iPadOS Includes USB and Bluetooth Devices 69
Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK 13
Apple Will Permanently Remove Dashboard In macOS Catalina 98
Apple Expands tvOS Gaming With PS4, Xbox One S Controller Support 27
Apple Debuts SwiftUI and New Xcode Interactive Development Experience 41
Apple's MacOS Catalina Will Open Up To iPad Apps, Be Available In the Fall 38
iOS 13: Apple Brings Dark Mode To iPhones and Multitasking Overhaul To iPads 51
Russian Military Moves Closer To Replacing Windows With Astra Linux 95
iTunes Expected To Be Retired After Over 18 Years 82
Apple Poised To Bring Mac and iPad Closer Than Ever 56
Dell Begins Pre-Installing Linux On Range of Precision Laptops 139
Advanced Linux Backdoor Found In the Wild Escaped AV Detection 50
Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform App Dream Is Dead and Buried 69
Most Windows 10 Users Are Running the Update From Over a Year Ago 170
Microsoft Hints at New Modern Windows OS With 'Invisible' Background Updates 167
Chinese Military To Replace Windows OS Amid Fears of US Hacking 220
Huawei's Android Replacement OS Will Launch in June, Company Exec Says 72
Microsoft Is Putting the Sexy Into Unsexy Software 89
A Group of Independent Linux App Developers Has Asked Wider GNOME Community To 'Stop Theming' Its Apps 179
Antergos Linux Has Been Discontinued 87
Apple Agrees To Notify iPhone Users If iOS Updates Will Affect Performance, UK Watchdog Says 42
Huawei Considers Rivals To Google's Android After US Ban 152
Microsoft Launches First Edge Preview Builds For Mac Users 31
Google Is Starting To Reveal the Secrets of Its Experimental Fuchsia OS 75
Microsoft Wants To Close the UWP, Win32 Divide With 'Windows Apps' 78
Google Finally Updates Android Distribution Dashboard, Pie Passes 10 Percent 31
Android Q Gets Dark Mode, Live Video Captioning, Better Gestures and More 29
Microsoft Solitaire Inducted Into World Video Game Hall of Fame 50
Linux 5.1 Released 69
Mark Shuttleworth Sees Increased Demand For Enterprise Ubuntu Linux Desktop 158
Fedora 30 Linux Distro Is Here 128
Google Hasn't Updated Android Distribution Data In 6 Months 62
Microsoft Drops 60-Day Password Expiration Policy 75
Scientific Linux Distro is Being Discontinued; The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN Will Move To CentOS 94
Microsoft Blocks Windows 10 May 2019 Update on PCs That Use USB Storage or SD Cards 140
Microsoft Displays Warning Messages in Windows 7 About the Impending End of Support 229
Windows 10's 'Sets' Feature Is Gone and Not Expected To Return 81
Windows 8 Will No Longer Get App Updates After This Summer 52
Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' Released 91
HD Emulation Mod Makes 'Mode 7' SNES Games Look Like New 44
iOS 13 To Feature Dark Mode and Interface Updates, Report Says 97
Why Tens of Thousands of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year 132
Google, Huawei Agree To Pay Owners of Faulty Nexus 6P Devices Up To $400 10
Windows XP Dies Final Death As Embedded POSReady 2009 Reaches End of Life 144
Roku Is No Longer a Neutral Platform After Today's Roku OS 9.1 Update 41
London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend 139
Windows 10 Will No Longer Auto Install Feature Updates Twice a Year 104
The End of the Desktop? 357
'SPURV' Project Brings Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux 52
Google's Second Android Q Beta Brings Us 'Bubbles' Multitasking 42
Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed 269
Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly 122
OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society 154
Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo Beta Now Available With Linux Kernel 5.0 and GNOME 3.32 73
Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes 249
Microsoft: Windows 10 Devices Open To 'Full Compromise' From Huawei PC Driver 112
Google, Microsoft Work Together For a Year To Figure Out New Type of Windows Flaw 53
Huawei Says It Has a Backup OS In Case It's Cut Off From Android 85
Google Hardware Makes Cuts To Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products 37
Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 119
Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates 64
Microsoft Asks Users To Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature 235
Google's Project Zero Team Releases Details On High-Severity macOS Bug 'BuggyCow' 40
Microsoft Reaches 800 Million Windows 10 Devices 80
Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 118
Microsoft is Creating Windows Lite For dual-screen and Chromebook-like Devices, Report Says 86
Linux 5.0 Released 107
Anti-Cheat Software Causing Big Problems For Windows 10 Previews 116
New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates 221
Microsoft Takes a Big Step Towards Putting Xbox Games On Windows 87
Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 106
Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report 356
Linux Subsystem Files To Become Accessible via Windows File Explorer 123
Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? 193
Shlayer Malware Disables macOS Gatekeeper To Run Unsigned Payloads 91
Researchers Use Intel SGX To Put Malware Beyond the Reach of Antivirus Software 63
Developer Releases Windows 95 OS as an App For Windows 10, macOS and Linux 120
Microsoft Warns Internet Explorer 10 Will Be Terminated In January 2020 86
Emulator Project Aims To Resurrect Classic Mac Apps, Games Without the OS 74
Wine 4.0 Released With Vulkan Support, Initial Direct3D 12 and Better HiDPI 73
Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone 262
A Look at the Amount of Time Smartphone Vendors Have Taken To Roll out Major Android Updates To Their Handsets, and How Things Are Beginning To Improve 131
Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down 73
Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 86
Windows 7 Enters Its Final Year of Free Support 216
Windows 7 Users Who Installed January Update Report Network Issues; Some Say the Update Has Also Incorrectly Flagged Their OS License as 'Not Genuine' 131
New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful 99
Windows 10 Will Reserve 7GB of Your Computer's Storage in its Next Major Release So That Big Updates Don't Fail 368
Companies Are Now Offering Seven Figures For Hacks That Allow Spies, Cops To Steal Chat App Messages 73
Google's Fuchsia OS Confirmed To Have Android App Support Via Android Runtime 61
Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share 191