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A quick look at OS/2’s built-in virtualisation
Most of us are aware that IBM's OS/2 has excellent compatibility with DOS and Windows 3.x programs, to the point where OS/2 just ships with an entire installation of Windows 3.x built-in that you can run multiple instances of. In fact, to this day, ArcaOS, the current incarnation of the maintained and slightly modernised OS/2 codebase, still comes with an entire copy of Windows 3
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There’s a market out there for a modern X11/Motif-based desktop distribution
EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. The idea behind this is to provide compatibility with current xorg extensions and applications, without changing the way the window manager looks and behaves. This includes support for multi-monitor s
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Xfce 4.20 with experimental Wayland support released
After two years of intense development, the third major Linux desktop environment has released a new version: Xfce 4.20 is here. The major focus of this release cycle was getting Xfce ready for Wayland, and they've achieved quite a bit of that goal, but support for it is still experimental.
Thanks to Brian and Gaël almost all Xfce
https://www.osnews.com/story/141355/xfce-4-20-with-experimental-wayland-support-released/
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Mozilla announces massive rebrand that mentions Firefox exactly once
Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, open and accessible. For over 25 years, we’ve championed the idea that the web should be for everyone, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Now, w
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Microsoft: we’re not lowering the Windows 11 system requirements
If you were secretly hoping Microsoft would lower the system requirements for Windows 11 so you could upgrade your or your family's Windows 10 machines to Windows 11, you're going to be in for some bad news. In a blog post, Microsoft detailed that its most stringent Windows 11 requirement - the Trusted Platf
https://www.osnews.com/story/141263/microsoft-were-not-lowering-the-windows-11-system-requirements/
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FreeBSD 14.2 released
FreeBSD 14.2 has been released, and as the version number suggests, this isn't a major release with huge changes. Still, it does bring support for downloading and installing necessary firmware packages after installation, the latest versions of OpenZFS and OpenSSL, and much more.
FreeBSD 14.2 is available for the main architectures it supports - x86, PowerPC/POWER, ARM, and RISC-V, and can
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MaXX Interactive Desktop springs back to life with new release and updated roadmap
I had to dive into our archive all the way back to 2017 to find the last reference to the MaXX Interactive Desktop, and it seems this wasn't exactly my fault - the project has been on hiatus since 2020, and is only now coming back to life, as MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (nicknam
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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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