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FreeBSD 15.0’s installer to gain option to install a full KDE Plasma desktop environment
One of the things lacking from the FreeBSD installation routine is the easy installation of a full desktop experience, from X11 all the way up to a login manager, desktop environment, and its applications. It seems this might finally change for FreeBSD 15.0, a
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CP/M creator Gary Kildall’s memoirs released as free download
The year before his death in 1994, Gary Kildall—inventor of the early microcomputer operating system CP/M—wrote a draft of a memoir, “Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry.” He distributed copies to family and friends, but died before realizing his
https://www.osnews.com/story/142849/cp-m-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download/
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Tilck: a tiny Linux-compatible kernel
Tilck is an educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level. It runs on i686 and RISCV64 at the moment. Project's small-scale and simple design makes it the perfect playground for playing in kernel mode while retaining the ability to compare how the very same usermode bits run on the Linux kernel as well. That's a rare feature in the
https://www.osnews.com/story/142830/tilck-a-tiny-linux-compatible-kernel/
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Does showing seconds in the Windows System Tray actually use more power?
On Windows, there's an option to show the seconds on the taskbar clock, but it comes with a warning that it might reduce battery life if you switch it on. LTT Labs decided to look into this to see just how much of a thing this really is, and they concluded that yes, it does actually affect bat
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Two weeks of Wayback: first alpha release in a few weeks
Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill only started working on Wayback a few weeks ago, but in a blog post today they dive into a few more details about how much progress has already been achieved. To refresh your memory, Wayback allows you to run a legacy X11-based desktop environment on top of Wayland by running a stub Way
https://www.osnews.com/story/142730/two-weeks-of-wayback-first-alpha-release-in-a-few-weeks/
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The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: deal or no deal?
Amiga lore is full of exciting tales. Many of them are retold to demonstrate how the incompetence of Commodore's management destroyed a platform that, by rights, was destined for success. Coulda, shoulda, and the Amiga woulda risen as rightful ruler of all other computer platforms, forever and ever. Amen.
One of thos
https://www.osnews.com/story/142696/the-amiga-3000-unix-and-sun-microsystems-deal-or-no-deal/
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IceWM 3.8.0 released
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits.
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Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a "framekernel architecture". The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by trying to get the best from both monolithic and microkernel designs.
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https://www.osnews.com/story/142631/asterinas-a-new-linux-compatible-kernel-project/
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Twin: a text-mode window environment
Wayland this, Liquid Glass that - but what if you just want a nice, comforting text-based environment? Sure, you can just boot straight into a terminal, or perhaps get fancy about it with Screen or whatever, but what if you want a text-based environment, but don't want to give up windows, menus, your mouse? How about a graphical user interface made up
https://www.osnews.com/story/142584/twin-a-text-mode-window-environment/
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Jolla kills €25 yearly subscription for updates, guaranteeing five years of free updates instead
Welcome news coming out of Jolla, the company that develops Sailfish OS. Up until now, if you bought their Jolla C2 smartphone, you had to pay a yearly subscription fee in order to get updates (with the first year included in the purchase price)
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Liberux Nexx: a Linux smartphone built in Europe
With the possibility that Google is going to make some big changes to the open source status of Android, the importance of smartphones that don't run either iOS or (some form of) Android is definitely increasing. Linux on smartphones is not as complete as iOS or Android, and I personally think one of the primary reasons for that is a lack of
https://www.osnews.com/story/142605/liberux-nexx-a-linux-smartphone-built-in-europe/
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Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project
With the release of Android 16, Google changed how it developed Android. Development is now taking place behind closed doors, with the code dropped after the corresponding version has been released to Pixel devices. Well, it turns out this wasn’t the only thing Google has changed about Android development.
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XenevaOS: a custom operating system with networking and graphical desktop environment
Xeneva is an operating system for both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures, built from the ground up. The Kernel is known as 'Aurora' with hybrid kernel design and the entire operating system is known as 'Xeneva'.
↫ XenevaOS GitHub page
It's remarkably complete, with dri
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Munal OS: experimental operating system fully written in Rust as an EFI binary
And I've got another custom hobby operating system for you today: Munal OS.
An experimental operating system fully written in Rust, with a unikernel design, cooperative scheduling and a security model based on WASM sandboxing.
↫ Munal OS GitHub page
Munal OS has no bootloader
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“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence
https://www.osnews.com/story/142488/ai-coding-chatbot-funded-by-microsoft-were-actually-indians/
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Linux Mint forks GNOME’s Libadwaita to add theme support
On numerous occasions, we've talked about the issue facing non-GNOME GTK desktops, like Xfce, MATE, and Cinnamon: the popularity of Libadwaita. With more and more application developers opting for GNOME's Libadwaita because of the desktop environment's popularity, many popular GTK applications now look like GNOME applications
https://www.osnews.com/story/142412/linux-mint-forks-gnomes-libadwaita-to-add-theme-support/
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A brief history of the BSD Fast FileSystem
We're looking at an article from 2007 here, but I still think it's valuable and interesting, especially from a historical perspective.
I first started working on the UNIX file system with Bill Joy in the late 1970s. I wrote the Fast File System, now called UFS, in the early 1980s. In this article, I have written a survey of the work that I and o
https://www.osnews.com/story/142339/a-brief-history-of-the-bsd-fast-filesystem/
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openSUSE removes Deepin from its repositories after long string of security issues and unauthorised security bypass
The openSUSE team has decided to remove the Deepin Desktop Environment from openSUSE, after the project's packager for openSUSE was found to have added workaround specifically to bypass various security
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Sculpt OS 25.04 released
Sculpt OS 25.04 has been released, and with it come a number of very welcome and important improvements. What most users will care about the most is the updated version of the Falkon web browser, built atop Qt 6.2.2 and its accompanying qtwebengine release, which in turn is using version 112 of the Chromium engine. Aside from this major improvement, there's two other things that stand ou
https://www.osnews.com/story/142252/sculpt-os-25-04-released/
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OpenBSD 7.7 released
Another six months have passed, so it's time for a new OpenBSD release: OpenBSD 7.7 to be exact. Browsing through the long, detailed list of changes, a few important bits jump out. First, OpenBSD 7.7 adds support for Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point, Strix Halo, Krackan Point), Radeon RX 9070 (Navi 48), and Intel's Arrow Lake, adding support for the latest x86 processors to OpenBSD.
There seems to
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