Operating Systems Stories for 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
Meta Opens Quest Operating System To Third-Party Device Makers 9
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems 80
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 22
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

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