Operating Systems Stories for 2014

Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Devuan Progress Report Published 184
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX 233
Fedora 21 Released 106
The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God 452
Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0 171
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
FreeBSD 10.1 Released 123
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Joey Hess Resigns From Debian 450
OpenSUSE 13.2 Released 42
Fedora 21 Beta Released 56
Trisquel 7 Released 39
Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark 192
OpenBSD 5.6 Released 125
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google 82
OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules 162
OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday 242
Firefox OS Coming To Raspberry Pi 88
Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' 353
The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone 347
Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public 121
More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 209
Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork 555
Ubuntu Turns 10 110
If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data 313
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review 305
After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} 183
Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas 147
Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday 63
Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems 774
Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone 132
Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption 146
Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility 349
Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista 554
Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? 577
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 644
Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time 269
Ubuntu Touch For Phones Hits RTM, First Phones Coming This Year 132
OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released 30
Fedora 21 Alpha Released 37
Outlining Thin Linux 221
Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd 469
iOS 8 Review 216
What To Expect With Windows 9 545
New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible 93
Robot Operating System To Officially Support ARM Processors 33
Why Munich Will Stick With Linux 185
You Got Your Windows In My Linux 613
Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? 294
New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? 251
Linux 3.17-rc2 Release Marks 23 Years of the Linux Kernel 106
Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated 190
A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October 93
Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' 727
Operating Systems Still Matter In a Containerized World 129
Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly 336
HP Gives OpenVMS New Life and Path To X86 Port 136
seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source 82
Samsung Delays Tizen Phone Launch 112
Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro 158
Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens 165
Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows 322
Exodus Intelligence Details Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Tails OS 132
Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads 161
KDE Releases Plasma 5 108
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136
CentOS Linux Version 7 Released On x86_64 125
FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old 133
Google I/O 2014 Begins [updated] 49
Amazon's Android Appstore Coming To BlackBerry 76
Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India 82
Open Source Robot OS Finds Niches From Farms To Space 36
Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released 132
A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z 105
HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop 121
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out 166
China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative 222
Haiku Gains Support For Current Radeon HD Cards 70
China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8 200
Linux Sucks (Video) 293
5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed 127
Firefox OS 1.3 Arrives: Dual SIM Support, Continuous Autofocus, Graphics Boost 68
The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux 264
Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? 533
Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award 141
Canonical (Nearly) Halts Development of Ubuntu For Android 55
OpenBSD 5.5 Released 128
Gary Kildall, Father of the PC OS, Finally Gets His Due 99
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Released 179
Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity 171
Linux 3.15 Will Suspend & Resume Much Faster 117
Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP 641
Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? 650
Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? 266
Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows 224
Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs 367
Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Devices 153
Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? 125
Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door 81
Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices 126
Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? 194
Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update 194
Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat 205
Website Simulates Amiga OS 45
Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires 860
Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week 198
Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles 314
Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Spring Update, To Focus On Non-touch Devices 172
Microsoft Said To Cut Windows Price 70% For Low Cost Devices 178
Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 75
BSD Real-Time Operating System NuttX Makes Its 100th Release: NuttX 6.33 64
With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android 241
Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 223
Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets 146
Red Hat Hires CentOS Developers 91
GNU Hurd Gets Improvements: User-Space Driver Support and More 163
Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM 140
Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More 179
Is Whitelisting the Answer To the Rise In Data Breaches? 195
North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X 252
Who's Writing Linux These Days? 63
Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked 153
Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers 142
Google Raises the Ante at CanSecWest With $2.7M In Pwnium Prize Money 24
HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 513
Linux 3.13 Released 141
Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall 209
OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto 232
Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem 246
China's Government Unveils 'China Operating System' To Great Skepticism 223
Google Ports Capsicum To Linux, and Other End-of-Year Capsicum News 71
Red Hat To Help Develop CentOS 186