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Linux to lose support for Apple and IBM’s failed PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform
Ah, the Common Hardware Reference Platform, IBM's and Apple's ill-fated attempt at taking on the PC market with a reference PowerPC platform anybody could build and expand upon while remaining (mostly) compatible with one another. Sadly, like so many other
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Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users
Windows 10's free, guaranteed security updates stop in October 2025, less than a year from now. Windows 10 users with supported PCs have been offered the Windows 11 upgrade plenty of times before. But now Microsoft is apparently making a fresh push to get users to upgrade, sending them full-screen
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“Why I stopped using OpenBSD”
I've linked to quite a few posts by OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne on OSNews, mostly about her work for and knowledge of OpenBSD. However, she recently posted about her decision to leave the OpenBSD team, and it mostly comes down to the fact she hasn't been using OpenBSD for a while now due to a myriad of problems she's encountering. Posts like these are generally not that
https://www.osnews.com/story/141170/why-i-stopped-using-openbsd/
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DOJ will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly
Speaking of Google, the United States Department of Justice is pushing for Google to sell off Chrome.
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in
https://www.osnews.com/story/141156/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly/
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PureDarwin intends to make Apple’s Darwin usable with a MATE desktop, future custom desktop environment, and more
Remember Darwin? It's the core of Apple's macOS, and the company has always - sometimes intermittently - released its source code as open source. Not much ever really happens with Darwin, and any attempts at bu
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quBSD: a Qubes-inspired containerization schema for FreeBSD
quBSD is a FreeBSD jails/bhyve wrapper which implements a Qubes inspired containerization schema. Written in shell, based on zfs, and uses the underlying FreeBSD tools.
↫ quBSD GitHub page
quBSD really seems to build upon the best FreeBSD has to offer. Neat.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141111/qubsd-a-qubes-inspired-containerization-schema-for-freebsd/
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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more
More bad news from Mozilla.
The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”
[...]
Announcing the lay
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Fedora KDE approved to become of equal status to Fedora GNOME
Earlier this year, a proposal was made to replace the primary edition of Fedora from the GNOME variant to the KDE variant. This proposal, while serious, was mostly intended to stir up discussion about the position of the Fedora KDE spin within the larger Fedora community, and it seems this has had its intended
https://www.osnews.com/story/141098/fedora-kde-approved-to-become-of-equal-status-to-fedora-gnome/
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Notepad gets “AI”
Nothing is sacred.
With this update, we are introducing the ability to rewrite content in Notepad with the help of generative AI. You can rephrase sentences, adjust the tone, and modify the length of your content based on your preferences to refine your text.
↫ Dave Grochocki at the Windows Insider Blog
This is the reason everything is going to shit.
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LXQt 2.1.0 released with optional Wayland session
LXQt, the desktop environment that is to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.1.0, and while the version number change seems average, it's got a big ace up its sleeve: you can now run LXQt in a Wayland session, and they claim it works quite well, too, and it supports a wide variety of compositors.
Through its new compone
https://www.osnews.com/story/141094/lxqt-2-1-0-released-with-optional-wayland-session/
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What’s new in POSIX 2024 – XCU
As of the previous release of POSIX, the Austin Group gained more control over the specification, having it be more working group oriented, and they got to work making the POSIX specification more modern. POSIX 2024 is the first release that bears the fruits of this labor, and as such, the changes made to it are particularly interesting, as they will define the d
https://www.osnews.com/story/141000/whats-new-in-posix-2024-xcu/
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What can Windows 10 users do once support ends in October 2025?
There's a date looming on the horizon for the vast majority of Windows users. While Windows 11 has been out for a long time now, most Windows users are using Windows 10 - about 63% - while Windows 11 is used by only about 33% of Windows users. In October 2025, however, support for Windows 10 will end, leaving t
https://www.osnews.com/story/140993/what-can-windows-10-users-do-once-support-ends-in-october-2025/
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Google’s ad-blocking crackdown underway
Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting ad blockers. Most recently, it’s been spotted automatically turning off popular ad blocking extension uBlock Origin for some Google Chrome users. To a degree, that makes sense—Google makes its money off ads. But with malicious ads and data trackers all over
https://www.osnews.com/story/140947/googles-ad-blocking-crackdown-underway/
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OpenBSD 7.6 released
OpenBSD 7.6, the release in which every single line of the original code form the first release has been edited or removed, has been released. There's a lot of changes, new features, bug fixes, and more in 7.6, but for desktop users, the biggest new feature is undoubtedly hardware-accelerated video decoding through VA-API. Or, as the changelog puts it:
Imported libva 2.22.0, an implementati
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Arch Linux and Valve deepen ties with direct collaboration
When Valve took its second major crack at making Steam machines happen, in the form of the Steam Deck, one of the big surprises was the company's choice to base the Linux operating system the Steam Deck uses on Arch Linux, instead of the Debian base it was using before. It seems this choice is not only benefiting Valve, b
https://www.osnews.com/story/140832/arch-linux-and-valve-deepen-ties-with-direct-collaboration/
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FreeBSD 13.4 released
FreeBSD 13.4 has been released. This is already the fifth release in the FreeBSD 13 series, and contains the usual set of security fixes, driver updates, important updated packages, like openssh, LLVM, clang, and so on. If you're running FreeBSD 13, you already know how to upgrade, and if you want to start using FreeBSD 13, here's the download page.
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Full-featured email server running OpenBSD
This blog post is a guide explaining how to setup a full-featured email server on OpenBSD 7.5. It was commissioned by a customer of my consultancy who wanted it to be published on my blog.
Setting up a modern email stack that does not appear as a spam platform to the world can be a daunting task, the guide will cover what you need for a secure, fun
https://www.osnews.com/story/140339/full-featured-email-server-running-openbsd/
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NVIDIA transitions fully towards open-source GPU Linux kernel modules
It's a bit of a Linux news day today - it happens - but this one is good news we can all be happy about. After earning a bad reputation for mishandling its Linux graphics drivers for years, almost decades, NVIDIA has been turning the ship around these past two years, and today they made a major annou
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Microsoft quietly updates official lightweight Windows 11 Validation OS ISOs for 24H2
Microsoft has again quietly updated its Validation OS ISOs. In case you are not familiar with it, Validation OS is an official lightweight variant of Windows and it is designed for hardware vendors to test, validate and repair hardware defects.
↫ Sayan Sen at Neowin
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AmiKit launches a new Amiga that’s not an Amiga at all
I try to keep tabs on a huge number of operating system projects out there - for obvious reasons - but long ago I learned that when it comes to the world of Amiga, it's best to maintain distance and let any important news find its way out of the Amiga bubble, lest one loses their sanity. Keeping up with the Amiga world requi
https://www.osnews.com/story/140197/amikit-launches-a-new-amiga-thats-not-an-amiga-at-all/
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