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Haiku gets accelerated NVIDIA graphics driver

The new year isn't even a day old, and Haiku developer X512 dropped something major in Haiku users' laps: the first alpha version of an accelerated NVIDIA graphics drivers for Haiku. Supporting at least NVIDIA Turing and Ampere GPUs, it's very much in alpha state, but does allow for proper GPU acceleration, with the code surely making its way to H

https://www.osnews.com/story/144097/haiku-gets-accelerated-nvidia-graphics-driver/

#Haiku

HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad

It's 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: HP-UX. Today is the day HPE puts the final nail in the coffin of their long-running UNIX operating system, marking the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX vari

https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

#Unix

loss32: let’s build a Win32/Linux

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, loss32 Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system made useful by WINE, the ReactOS userland, and other vital system components comprising a full OS

https://www.osnews.com/story/144091/loss32-lets-build-a-win32-linux/

#Linux

Elementary OS 8.1 released

Elementary OS, the user-friendly Linux distribution with its own unique desktop environment and applications, just released elementary OS 8.1. Its minor version number belies just how big of a punch this update packs, so don't be fooled here.

We released elementary OS 8 last November with a new Secure Session—powered by Wayland—that ensures applications respect your privacy and co

https://www.osnews.com/story/144056/elementary-os-8-1-released/

#Linux

Amifuse: native Amiga filesystems on macOS and Linux with FUSE

Mount Amiga filesystem images on macOS/Linux using native AmigaOS filesystem handlers via FUSE.

amifuse runs actual Amiga filesystem drivers (like PFS3) through m68k CPU emulation, allowing you to read Amiga hard disk images without relying on reverse-engineered implementations.
↫ Amifuse GitHub page

Abso

https://www.osnews.com/story/144054/amifuse-native-amiga-filesystems-on-macos-and-linux-with-fuse/

#AmigaAROS

QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo e-readers

Any computing device will inevitably get a custom operating system - whether based on an existing operating system or something entirely custom - and of course, Kobo e-readers are no exception. QuillOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution specifically developed for the unique challenges of e-readers

https://www.osnews.com/story/144023/quillos-alpine-based-linux-distribution-optimised-for-kobo-e-readers/

#Mobile

FreeBSD debates sunsetting power64/power64le support

I have some potentially devastating news for POWER users interested in using FreeBSD, uncovered late last month by none other than Cameron Kaiser.

FreeBSD is considering retiring powerpc64 prior to branching 16, which would make FreeBSD 15 the last stable version to support the architecture. (32-bit PowerPC is already dropped a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144002/freebsd-debates-sunsetting-power64-power64le-support/

#FreeBSD

US government switches to Times New Roman because Calibri is “woke”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity.

While mostly framed as a matter of cl

https://www.osnews.com/story/143999/us-government-switches-to-times-new-roman-because-calibri-is-woke/

#ClownCar

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one — but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that

https://www.osnews.com/story/143957/google-is-experimentally-replacing-news-headlines-with-ai-clickbait-nonsense/

#ClownCar

Moss: a Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust

Moss is a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly.

It features a modern, asynchronous core, a modular architecture abstraction layer, and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications (currently capable of running most BusyBox commands).
↫ Moss' GitHub page

I mean, hobby operating systems and kern

https://www.osnews.com/story/143918/moss-a-linux-compatible-kernel-written-in-rust/

#OSNews

The why of LisaGUI

LisaGUI is an amazing project that recreates the entire user interface of the Apple Lisa in the browser, using nothing but CSS, a bit of HTML, and SVG files, and it's an absolute joy to use and experience. Its creator, Andrew Yaros, has published a blog post diving into the why and how of LisaGUI.

I had been trying to think of a good project to add to my programming portfolio, which was

https://www.osnews.com/story/143874/the-why-of-lisagui/

#RetroComputing

Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

In my lifetime, there's been one ecosystem I deeply regret having missed out on: the Sun Microsystems ecosystem of the late 2000s. At that time, the company offered a variety of products that, when used together, formed a comprehensive ecosystem that was a fascinating, albeit expensive alternative to Microsoft and Apple. W

https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/

#OracleAndSUN

OpenBSD 7.8 released

Like clockwork, every six months, we have a new OpenBSD release. OpenBSD 7.8 adds support for the Raspberry Pi 5, tons of improvements to sleep, wake, and hibernate, the TCP stack can now run in parallel on multiple processors, and so much more. DRM has been updated to match Linux 6.12.50, and drivers for the Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM subsystem and Qualcomm DisplayPort controller were added as we

https://www.osnews.com/story/143619/openbsd-7-8-released/

#OpenBSD

Big tech is faking revenue

Open AI has recently announced deals worth $600 Billion with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle. OpenAI is able to spend hundreds of billions of dollars they do not have because those companies are paying that same money back to OpenAI via investment. The infinite money glitch means that stocks keep going higher as more circular revenue cycles between the same players.
↫ Sasha Yanshin

The

https://www.osnews.com/story/143538/big-tech-is-faking-revenue/

#ClownCar

In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views

Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.

If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli

https://www.osnews.com/story/143520/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-deeply-extremist-views/

#ClownCar

Servo GTK: a widget to embed Servo in GTK4

Servo, the Rust-based browsing engine spun off from Mozilla, keeps making progress every month, and this made Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wonder: what if we make a GTK widget so we can test Servo and compare it to WebKitGTK?

As part of my job at Amazon I started working in a GTK widget which will allow embedding a Servo Webview inside a GTK appli

https://www.osnews.com/story/143506/servo-gtk-a-widget-to-embed-servo-in-gtk4/

#GTK #Internet

Google details Android developer certification requirement, and it’s as bad as we feared

Google has been on a bit of a marketing blitz to try and counteract some of the negative feedback following its new developer verification requirement for Android applications, and while they're using a lot of words, none of them seem to address the core concer

https://www.osnews.com/story/143467/google-details-android-developer-certification-requirement-and-its-as-bad-as-we-feared/

#Android

The Encore 91 computer system

Have you ever heard of the Encore 91 computer system, developed and built by Encore Computer Corporation? I stumbled upon the name of this system on the website for the Macintosh like virtual window manager (MLVWM), an old X11 window manager designed to copy some of the look and feel of the classic Mac OS, and wanted to know more about it. An old website from what appea

https://www.osnews.com/story/143456/the-encore-91-computer-system/

#RetroComputing

Unite: a decades-old QNX-inspired hobby operating system

Unite is an operating system in which everything is a process, including the things that you normally would expect to be part of the kernel. The hard disk driver is a user process, so is the file system running on top of it. The namespace manager is a user process. The whole thing (in theory, see below) supports network trans

https://www.osnews.com/story/143445/unite-a-decades-old-qnx-inspired-hobby-operating-system/

#OSNews

Benjamin Button reviews macOS

Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad. Without much experience in desktop UX, Apple's first OS looked like a Fisher-Price toy: heavily rounded corners, mismatched c

https://www.osnews.com/story/143415/benjamin-button-reviews-macos/

#macOS