Operating Systems Stories for 2020

Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager 63
Google Kills Android Things, a Smart Home OS That Never Took Off 40
Google Will Officially Support Running Chrome OS On Old PCs 63
Microsoft Will Start Force Upgrading Windows 10 For Some Users 232
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model 79
Is Apple Silicon Ready? 132
Mass-Produced, Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping to Customers 155
'Ubuntu Web Remix' Distro Offers Firefox-Based Chrome OS Alternative 47
Windows Turns 35 111
Ask Slashdot: Did You Upgrade To macOS Big Sur? 101
macOS Big Sur is Now Available To Download 86
Android Turns 13 Years Old 27
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux 46
Windows 7 Won't Die, Still Second Most Popular OS 83
Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG 10
New Windows 10 Update Permanently Removes Adobe Flash 102
Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' is Here With Renewed Raspberry Pi Focus 20
OpenStack Foundation Transforms Into the Open Infrastructure Foundation 16
OpenBSD Turns 25 With a New Release 28
Microsoft Testing Windows 10 Feature That'll Detect If Your SSD Is Failing 39
Huawei Ready To Reveal Inner Workings To Show No Security Threat 76
Windows XP Leak Confirmed After User Compiles the Leaked Code Into a Working OS 89
Xen Project Officially Ports Its Hypervisor To Raspberry Pi 4 19
Linux Journal Is Back 52
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches For a 'Complete Virtualization Stack' With Linux and Hyper-V 105
Huawei's HarmonyOS is Coming To Smartphones 35
Google Begins Rolling Out Android 11 32
Huawei Finally Launches Brilliant Google Alternative 64
Windows 95 Released a Quarter Century Ago 108
Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera 156
Microsoft Signals Renewed Interest In Windows With Latest Reshuffle 57
Apple Launches Public Beta of macOS Big Sur, Its Biggest Desktop OS Update in Years 54
SUSE Releases Major Linux Update 27
Android 10 Had the Fastest Adoption Rate of Any Version of Android Yet 27
Microsoft Will Axe Control Panel From Windows 10 208
Apple WatchOS 7 Unveiled With Sleep Tracking, Shareable Watch Faces and a Hand Washing Timer 22
Apple Will Let You Emulate Old Apps, Run iOS Apps on ARM Macs 213
Microsoft Moves Its Windows 10 Insider Program from Rings To Release Channels 9
Windows 10's Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers 69
Playing Around With the Fuchsia OS 102
Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs 6
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Update with Linux and Notepad Enhancements 82
Microsoft Debuts Windows Package Manager For Your Dev Environment 50
OpenBSD 6.7 Released 49
SoftBank Vision Fund Posts $17.7 Billion Loss on WeWork, Uber 29
Microsoft Takes Step Toward Phasing Out 32-bit PC Support for Windows 10 105
Steam Ends Mac Support For SteamVR 66
QEMU Version 5.0.0 Released 21
Fairphone 3 Now Available With 'de-Googled' Android /e/OS 66
Newly Discovered macOS Image Capture Bug Can Fill Up Hard Drives With Empty Data 25
Fedora 32 Linux-based OS Available For Download With GNOME 3.36 33
Google's Flutter: 2 Million Developers, Uptick In Enterprise Use, New Release Model Revealed 27
Malwarebytes Releases New VPN Service For Windows 24
Microsoft's New Browser For Windows 7 Will Be Retired In July 2021 27
Don't Expect Any Windows 10X Devices This Calendar Year, Says Microsoft 22
Tails, the Security-Focused OS, Adds Support For Secure Boot 20
A Hacker Found a Way To Take Over Any Apple Webcam 52
OpenWRT Code-Execution Bug Puts Millions of Devices At Risk 60
Linux Mint 20 is 64-bit Only, Based on Ubuntu 20.04, and Named 'Ulyana' 84
Unpatched iOS Bug Blocks VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic 19
Microsoft Throttles Some Office 365 Services To Continue To Meet Demand 43
Apple Releases iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, macOS 10.15.4, tvOS 13.4, and watchOS 6.2 13
Meet the Chinese OS That's Trying To Shift the Country Off Windows 96
Microsoft Teases Revamped UI For Windows 10 160
Google Pauses Chrome and Chrome OS Releases Due To Coronavirus Outbreak 19
Purism Librem Mini is a Tiny Linux Desktop 70
Chrome OS To Get Native App For Printing and Scanning Documents 37
Windows Has a New Wormable Vulnerability With No Patch Available 68
Motherboard Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried To Unlock 16
Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Detection Feature Found In iOS 14 Code Snippet 37
Sonos Decides Bricking Old Stuff Isn't a Winning Move After All 31
FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Merging 94
Microsoft Wants To Do Away With Windows 10 Local Accounts 277
Windows 10 Icons Are Getting An Overdue Redesign 144
Apple's Mac Computers Now Outpace Windows In Malware 97
Microsoft Promises Windows 10X Updates Will Take 'Less Than 90 Seconds' 76
South Korea's Government Explores Move From Windows To Linux Desktop 44
Chrome 80 Arrives With Mixed Content Autoupgraded To HTTPS, Cookie Changes, and Contact Picker API 63
Microsoft Says it Will Release Black Desktop Bug Fix To All Windows 7 Users For Free 41
Linux 5.5 Released 32
Free Software Foundation Suggests Microsoft 'Upcycle' Windows 7 As Open Source 59
How Dual-Screen Apps Will Run On Windows 10X, Android 29
German Government To Pay Over $850,000 in Windows 7 ESU Fees This Year 54
Microsoft's CEO Looks To a Future Beyond Windows, iOS, and Android 53
Microsoft Patches Major Windows 10 Vulnerability After NSA Warning 42
UK Govt Warns Not To Access Online Banking on Windows 7 80
Huawei Unveils OpenEuler, CentOS-Based Linux Distribution 53