Operating Systems Stories

Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 32
How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems 77
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 21
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 18
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them 117
VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program 60
Linux Continues To Be Above 4% On the Desktop 149
Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS 15
GNOME 46 Released 49
macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive' 32
Database-Based Operating System 'DBOS' Does Things Linux Can't 104
Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0 98
Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More 26
Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity 188
Copilot Pane As Annoying As Clippy May Pop Up In Windows 11 43
Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share 199
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
Remembering How Plan 9 Evolved at Bell Labs 36
Google Enables OS Upgrades For Older PCs Post-Windows 10 Support Cutoff 73
Amazon Confirms Fire TV Is Dropping Android 43
Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy? 100
Huawei Makes a Break From Android With Next Version of Harmony OS 27
Wine 9.0 Released 15
Google Is No Longer Bringing the Full Chrome Browser To Fuchsia 24
Biggest Linux Kernel Release Ever Welcomes bcachefs File System, Jettisons Itanium 52
Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance 22
Linux Hits Nearly 4% Desktop User Share on Statcounter 146
Linux Is the Only OS To Support Diagonal PC Monitor Mode 170
Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery 69
Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android? 152
FreeBSD 14 Released 38
Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland 75
Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales 36
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Lenovo Will Soon Distribute Devices Powered By the Esper Foundation OS 16
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release 79
Deta's Space OS Aims To Build the First 'Personal Cloud Computer' 38
Android 14 Officially Releases for Pixel Phones 20
Windows 11's Next Big Update Now Available With Copilot, AI-powered Paint 25
Windows 11 Gains Support for Managing Passkeys 49
Windows 11's Next Big Update Arrives on September 26th With Copilot, RAR Support 98
ArcaOS 5.1.0 (OEM OS/2 Warp Operating System) Now Available 46
FreeBSD Can Now Boot in 25 Milliseconds 77
Linux 6.5 Kernel Released 26
Windows 11 Has Made the 'Clean Windows Install' an Oxymoron 207
Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana App On Windows 11 16
ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like Linux 19
Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack 29
ChromeOS 115 Rolling Out: Android App Streaming, PDF Signatures 4
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL 39
Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn't Make Linux 6.5 79
The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life 38
WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App 37
Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project's Small Real-Time Operating System 30
Apple Announces iOS 17 With StandBy Charging Mode, Better Autocorrect 44
Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and Game Mode 23
Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset 38
New DirectX 12-To-Metal Translation Could Bring a World of Windows Games To macOS 32
System76's Open Firmware 'Re-Disables' Intel's Management Engine 19
Intel Mulls Cutting Ties To 16 and 32-Bit Support 239
Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation 63
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust 34
Android 14 Will Add More Customization To Your Home and Lock Screens 21
Microsoft To Take On Apple Silicon With Custom ARM Chips 50
Microsoft is Busy Rewriting Core Windows Code in Memory-safe Rust 150
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released 16
Windows 11 Start Menu Ads Look Set To Get Even Worse 109
Biggest Linux Company of Them All Still Pushing To Become Cloud Power 23
Microsoft Is Experimenting With a Steam Deck-Friendly 'Handheld Mode' For Windows 16
Android 14's First Beta Introduces a Back Arrow That Matches Your Background 22
Microsoft Set To Change Print Screen Button So It Opens Snipping Tool in Windows 11 67
OpenBSD 7.3 Released 135
YouTuber Tricks ChatGPT Into Generating Windows 95 Keys 51
After Two Years, Autodesk Maya and AutoCAD Become Apple Silicon-Native 19
GNOME 44 Released 30
Microsoft Wants Changing Default Apps In Windows To Be Less of a Mess 80
Will AMD's 'openSIL' Library Enable Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot? 29
First Look At Google Chrome's Blink Engine Running On an iPhone 39
Linux 6.2: The First Mainstream Linux Kernel with Upstream Support for Apple M1 Chips Arrives 65
Microsoft Outlines Official Support For Windows 11 on Mac with Apple Silicon 53
Android 14 Preview 1 is Out, Will Officially Ban Installation of Old Apps 48
Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel 6
Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB 92
PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers 48
Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework 24
Apple Gives Some Older iPhones OS Updates, Going Back To iPhone 5S 45
Google's Fuchsia OS Was One of the Hardest Hit By Last Week's Layoffs 58
Six Years Later, HPE and Oracle Quietly Shut Door On Solaris Lawsuit 10
Android 13 Is Running On 5.2% of All Devices Five Months After Launch 77
Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month 69
Support for Windows 7 and 8 Fully Ends in January, Including Microsoft Edge 81
Windows 11 Still Not Winning the OS Popularity Contest 207
Apple Now Calling AR/VR Headset Operating System 'xrOS' 30
Microsoft Offers Fix for Windows 11 Gaming Performance Issues 24
Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux 90
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
Windows 11 Runs on Fewer Than 1 in 6 PCs 265
Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu 39
Apple Releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16 21
Apple Rumored To Be Testing macOS For M2 iPad Pro 35
New Version of Windows 95 JavaScript App Runs On Basically Any Platform 32
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Google Announces KataOS 69
Google Pixel 7 Series Only Support 64-bit Apps 29
Windows 95 Went the Extra Mile To Ensure Compatibility of SimCity, Other Games 77
Samsung Seeks Smart TV Growth With First Tizen OS Licensing Deals 37
IceWM Reaches Version 3 After a Mere 25 Years 38
Basic Rust Support Merged For Upcoming Linux 6.1 83
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities 26
The Latest iPadOS 16 Beta Brings Stage Manager To Older iPad Pro Models 6
Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 11 2022 Update 95
Microsoft Commits To Updating Windows 11 Once Per Year, and Also All the Time 44
Windows Terminal Gets Support For Creating Custom Themes 32
Apple Releases Rare iOS 12 Update To Address Security Flaw On Older iPhones, iPads 22
Microsoft's Largest Piece of Software Weighed More Than 40 Pounds 82
Google's Fuchsia OS is Taking Over Smart Displays, Now on Its Second Device 23
Linux 6.1 Will Make It A Bit Easier To Help Spot Faulty CPUs 16
Microsoft Finds Critical Hole In ChromeOS 31
Windows 11's Next Big Update Arrives Next Month With Start Menu Folders, New Gestures 84
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Performance Improvements and More Rust Coming 24
Google Releases Android 13, Rolling Out First To Pixel Phones 23
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware 41
ChromeOS 104 Rolling Out With Dark Theme, Redesigned Launcher, and More 14
Can a Fork Save Cutefish OS (or Its Desktop)? 109
Google's Chrome OS Flex is Now Available for Old PCs and Macs 60
Xbox Series X Can Run Windows 98, Along With Classic PC Games of The Era 23
Apple's iOS 16, macOS Ventura and watchOS 9 Public Betas Are Ready To Download 29
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft 209
Gtk 5 Might Drop X.11 Support, Says GNOME Dev 145
Windows 10's 22H2 Update Might Not Actually Do Much of Anything 35
Linus Torvalds Is Cautiously Optimistic About Bringing Rust Into Linux Kernel's Next Release 123
RISC OS: 35-Year-Old Original ARM OS Is Alive and Well 51
Ubuntu Core 22 Brings Real-Time Linux Options To IoT 22
'I Love the Linux Desktop, But That Doesn't Mean I Don't See Its Problems All Too Well' 197
Next-Generation Apple CarPlay Will Be a Whole Car OS 118
Apple Announces macOS 13 Ventura, the Next Major Software Update for the Mac 60
Older iPads May Soon Be Able To Run Linux 47
AROS One x86 v1.7 and MorphOS 3.17 PPC Released 8
Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives 62
AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux 117
Microsoft Will Support Third-Party Windows 11 Widgets Later This Year 30
Microsoft Tests Windows 11 Desktop Widgets With Web Search Bar 33
FreeBSD 13.1 Released 26
Software Freedom Conservancy Wins Big Step Forward For Open-Source Rights 18
Microsoft Recommends People Uninstall Optional Windows 11 Update KB5012643 75
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media 23
Microsoft Fixes Point of Sale Bug That Delayed Windows 11 Startup For 40 Minutes 46
Microsoft: Moving Windows 11 Taskbar May Never Be An Option Again 210
Raspberry Pi OS Ditches Longtime User Account For Security Reasons 21
Windows 3.1 Is Officially 30 Years Old 142
Fedora Plans To Drop Support For Legacy BIOS Systems 122
'Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source' 101
Roku OS 11 Will Let You Set Your Own Photos as a Screensaver 61
Google Casually Announces Steam For Chrome OS Is Coming In Alpha For Select Chromebooks 19
macOS 12.3 Arrives With Universal Control, Spatial Audio Features 121
New Windows 11 Test Build Wants Your Credit Card Info 148
FreeDOS Puts Out New Release 43
Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Replace File Systems? 209
Windows 11 Pro Now Requires Microsoft Account and Internet During Setup 207
Roku Mulls Building Its Own Smart TVs 34
Otter Browser Aims To Bring Chromium To Decades-Old OS/2 Operating System 54
Windows 11 is Getting New Touch Gestures, Start Menu Folders 46
Windows 11's First Big Update Arrives With Android Apps and Taskbar Changes 43
Raspberry Pi Bootloader Enables OS Installs With No Separate PC Required 63
System76-Scheduler Is a New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness 43
Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up To 8 Hours of Online Time To Update 124
Hands-On Microsoft's Canceled Andromeda OS 13
Why is Android 12 So Buggy? 80
Hotel Chain Switches To Chrome OS To Recover From Ransomware Attack 77
Facebook Halts VR and AR Operating System Project 39
BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 115
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS 20
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
Windows 11 is Getting Some Much-needed Taskbar and Start Menu Improvements 134
Next Windows 11 Update Brings Back Clippy 124
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin 57
Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM 49
Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM 46
Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 10 With Yearly Feature Updates 31
'If Apple Keeps Letting Its Software Slip, the Next Big Thing Won't Matter' 116
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62
Huawei Offloads x86 Business As It Chases Self-Sufficiency 28
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 Features Are Failing Due To Its Expired Certificate 109
Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11 82
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS 140
Microsoft Is Force Installing PC Health Check In Windows 10 84
It's Windows XP's 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It 130
macOS Monterey is Now Available To Download 38
John Carmack Pushes Out Unlocked OS For Defunct Oculus Go Headset 20
Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones 11
macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out On October 25th 87
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
Google's Fuchsia Is Expanding To 'Additional Smart Devices and Other Form Factors' 32
Steve Jobs Tried To Convince Dell To License Mac Software 42
Microsoft Shares Windows 11 TPM Check Bypass For Unsupported PCs 74
Google Releases Android 12 To AOSP, But No Pixel Launch Today 14
New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones 30
New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements 161
Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say 186
Windows 11 Setup Warns That You Aren't 'Entitled' To Updates On Unsupported PCs 131
Comcast and UK Subsidiary Sky Reportedly Launching Smart TVs 17
PS5 Software Update Brings SSD Installation, 3D Audio Wednesday 10
Microsoft Suggests Those Divisive Windows 11 System Specs Deliver a 99.8% Crash-free Experience 187
Microsoft Boots Older PCs Out of Windows 11 Preview Testing 72
Docker Desktop No Longer Free For Large Companies 63
Microsoft Will Release Windows 11 on October 5 83
Happy Birthday, Linux: From a Bedroom Project To Billions of Devices in 30 Years 122
New Linux Syscall Enables Secret Memory Even the Kernel Can't Read 131
Google's Fuchsia OS Is Rolling Out Widely To 1st-Gen Nest Hubs 40
Start11 Brings a Classic Start Menu Back To Windows 11 134
The Galaxy Watch 4 Injects Samsung's Capable Hardware With Google Software 25
HP Announces New Detachable and All-in-One Chrome OS Computers 19
SteamVR Beta Lets You Arrange Desktop Windows Inside Your Virtual World 8
Google Will Kill Off Very Old Versions of Android Next Month 47
Google's Wear OS 3 Update Plans Will Leave Most Existing Devices Behind 15
Windows 11 Will Support Rolling Back To Windows 10, but Not for Long 91
How To Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad 53
OnePlus 9 Benchmarks Deleted From Geekbench Over Cheating Allegations 27
Apple Makes OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free To Download 47
What Windows 11 Means: We'll Be Stuck With Millions of Windows 10 Zombies 289
Windows 11 Requires an Internet Connection and Microsoft Account At Setup 187
Microsoft Is Changing the Windows 11 Minimum Requirements 174
Microsoft Will Bundle Its Rival To Slack Into Windows 11 61
Microsoft Fights Back Against Windows 11 Leak 96
Google Announces Bold New Changes To Chrome OS Release Cycle 14
Linux X86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM 77
Swift Playgrounds For iPadOS 15 Lets You Build Apps On the iPad, Submit Them To the App Store 28
Huawei's HarmonyOS Arrives With iPad-Inspired Tablet UI, Apparent Android Base 39
Google's Mysterious Fuchsia OS Makes its Public Debut 68
Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes Problematic University of Minnesota Patches 38
Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen 44
Microsoft Says Windows 10X Isn't Happening 48
Microsoft Shelves Windows 10X, It is not Shipping in 2021 74
Microsoft Is Finally Ditching Its Windows 95-Era Icons 108
Windows Defender Bug Fills Windows 10 Boot Drive With Thousands of Files 64
Two More Windows 10 Updates Will Remove Adobe Flash For Good 47
Windows 10 Now Active on 1.3 Billion Devices, Says Microsoft 79
FreeBSD 13 Released 66
Microsoft Is Finally Releasing a 64-Bit Version of OneDrive For Windows 75
IBM Creates a COBOL Compiler For Linux On x86 188
What We're Expecting From Google's Custom 'Whitechapel' SoC In the Pixel 6 16
AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS 43
UNIX's Founders Created Another OS at Bell Labs: 'Plan 9' 135
Five-Year-Old Fairphone 2 Getting Updated To Almost Three-Year-Old Android 9 57
It's Been 20 Years Since the Launch of Mac OS X 88
Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux 115
Windows 10 Updates Are Causing Even More Printer Problems Than First Thought 70

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