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Sailfish OS reviews are always the same

1d ago·3 min read·519 words

The Nokia N8 has a brand new, modern, actively maintained, and regularly updated Symbian ROM

2d ago·2 min read·271 words

Microsoft continues beating the “agentic” Windows drum

2d ago·2 min read·400 words

On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

2d ago·1 min read·130 words

“Long-term support” does not mean what you think it does

4d ago·3 min read·584 words

Gnutella: a protocol outliving the world that created it

4d ago·2 min read·259 words

Migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD

5d ago·2 min read·295 words

Secure boot and Microsoft CA rollover: a heads-up for distributions

5d ago·3 min read·418 words

Google’s plan for ads in its new “AI” chatbot search engine is to let “AI” generate the ads

6d ago·3 min read·496 words

Twelve ways to be wrong about “AI”-assisted coding

6d ago·1 min read·106 words

“AI” tools shit where they eat

6d ago·2 min read·353 words

Setting up KDE and Wayland on FreeBSD 15.x

6d ago·2 min read·202 words

Firefox, Vivaldi unveil their UI overhauls

6d ago·2 min read·308 words

Get your passwords out of BitWarden while you still can

May 20·3 min read·414 words

Printing with CUPS on OpenBSD

May 20·2 min read·326 words

OSNews fundrasier progress

May 20·1 min read·102 words

The Virtual OS Museum

May 19·2 min read·277 words

Google kills its search engine

May 19·3 min read·420 words

Futhark by example

May 19·1 min read·95 words

OpenBSD 7.9 released

May 19·1 min read·178 words

The 21 years and 20000 posts OSNews fundraiser: €1 for every post

May 18·2 min read·327 words

You can now run Windows CE 2.11 on the Nintendo 64

May 18·2 min read·360 words

How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer

May 18·2 min read·328 words

Microsoft finally brings back moving and resizing the taskbar in Windows 11

May 18·2 min read·213 words

21 years and 20000 posts later

May 16·6 min read·1006 words

Google’s new “AI” Health Coach started making shit up right away

May 15·1 min read·156 words

Microsoft claims it’s fixing Windows Update so it won’t downgrade your graphics drivers

May 15·1 min read·130 words

The data is abundantly clear: the EU Digital Markets Act is working

May 14·3 min read·453 words

Classic 7 combines Windows 7’s Aero Glass with Windows 10

May 14·1 min read·177 words

Haiku gets basic SMP support for ARM64, and unveils its GSoC projects: Bluetooth improvements incoming

May 13·1 min read·15 words

EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive government data

May 13·1 min read·13 words

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

May 12·1 min read·10 words

Google gives early peek at Android laptops: Googlebooks

May 12·1 min read·8 words

OpenBSD and slopcode: raindrop to a torrent?

May 11·1 min read·7 words

Windows 11 will start boosting your processor to maximum GHz to make the Start menu open faster

May 11·1 min read·17 words

GitHub is sinking

May 11·1 min read·3 words

Debian embraces reproducible builds

May 11·1 min read·4 words

“Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning”

May 11·1 min read·15 words

Object oriented programming in Ada

May 11·1 min read·5 words

Sculpt OS 26.04 released

May 10·1 min read·4 words

Sprite scaling on the Master System: building the new on the ruins of the old

May 10·1 min read·15 words

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users

May 8·1 min read·13 words

Why don’t lowercase letters come right after uppercase letters in ASCII?

May 8·1 min read·11 words

Detecting (or not) the use of -l and -c together in Bourne shells

May 8·1 min read·13 words

Fedora Project Leader says he doesn’t care about the reputational damage from Fedora embracing “AI”

May 7·1 min read·15 words

Redox gets partial window pixel updating, tmux, and more

May 7·1 min read·9 words

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

May 7·1 min read·10 words

“My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS”

May 7·1 min read·8 words

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

May 5·1 min read·12 words

Using duplicity to back up your FreeBSD desktop

May 5·1 min read·8 words

Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

May 4·1 min read·9 words

Windows gets a new Run dialog

May 4·1 min read·6 words

GNOME is good, actually

May 3·1 min read·4 words

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

May 3·1 min read·12 words

Email is crazy

Apr 30·1 min read·3 words

The day I logged 1 in every 2000 public IPv4: visualizing the AI scraper DDoS

Apr 30·1 min read·15 words

Earliest 86-DOS and PC-DOS code released as open source

Apr 29·1 min read·9 words

Apple gives up on Vision Pro, disbands Vision Pro team

Apr 29·1 min read·10 words

Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t

Apr 28·1 min read·14 words

Dillo 3.3.0 released

Apr 27·1 min read·3 words

Ubuntu is going to integrate “AI”, but Canonical remains vague about the how and why

Apr 27·1 min read·15 words

If 64bit Windows 11 contains a copy of 32bit explorer.exe, could you run it as its shell?

Apr 24·1 min read·17 words

8087 emulation on 8086 systems

Apr 24·1 min read·5 words

How hard is it to open a file?

Apr 24·1 min read·8 words

AI as a fascist artifact

Apr 24·1 min read·5 words

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon released

Apr 23·1 min read·6 words

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Apr 22·1 min read·5 words

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU92 released

Apr 22·1 min read·5 words

Some tech company to replace its CEO

Apr 20·1 min read·7 words

Google to punish back button hijacking

Apr 20·1 min read·6 words

LXQt 2.4.0 released

Apr 20·1 min read·3 words

Nationwide bill to put age verification in operating systems introduced in the US

Apr 16·1 min read·13 words

Tribblix m34 for SPARC released

Apr 15·1 min read·5 words

Haiku on ARM64 boots to desktop in QEMU

Apr 15·1 min read·8 words

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

Apr 15·1 min read·7 words

Let sleeping CPUs lie — S0ix

Apr 15·1 min read·6 words

Microsoft isn’t removing Copilot from Windows 11, it’s just renaming it

Apr 14·1 min read·11 words

Scientists invented an obviously fake illness, and “AI” spread it like truth within weeks

Apr 13·1 min read·14 words

Linux 7.0 released

Apr 13·1 min read·3 words

The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet

Apr 10·1 min read·13 words

FreeBSD works best on one of these laptops

Apr 10·1 min read·8 words

Fixing AMDGPU’s VRAM management for low-end GPUs

Apr 10·1 min read·7 words

Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?

Apr 9·1 min read·14 words

USB for software developers

Apr 9·1 min read·4 words

Redox sees another months of improvements

Apr 9·1 min read·6 words

Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah ported to Nintendo Wii

Apr 8·1 min read·9 words

Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system

Apr 7·1 min read·8 words

Anos: a hobby microkernel operating system written in C

Apr 7·1 min read·9 words

The 499th patch for 2.11BSD released

Apr 7·1 min read·6 words

KDE is bringing back its classic Oxygen and Air themes

Apr 6·1 min read·10 words

“I used AI. It worked. I hated it.”

Apr 6·1 min read·8 words

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason

Apr 5·1 min read·10 words

TinyOS: ultra-lightweight RTOS for IoT devices

Apr 4·1 min read·6 words

Redox gets new CPU scheduler

Apr 4·1 min read·5 words

Open source office suites erupt in forking and licensing drama

Apr 4·1 min read·10 words

How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars

Apr 4·1 min read·6 words

Big-endian testing with QEMU

Apr 3·1 min read·4 words

How to turn anything into a router

Apr 1·1 min read·7 words

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub

Mar 30·1 min read·11 words

Capability-based security for Redox: namespace and CWD as capabilities

Mar 30·1 min read·9 words

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

Mar 30·1 min read·8 words

Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD

Mar 27·1 min read·7 words

Will “AI” chatbots be the tobacco of the future?

Mar 27·1 min read·9 words

Microsoft removes trust for drivers signed with the cross-signed driver program

Mar 27·1 min read·11 words

Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version

Mar 26·1 min read·13 words

US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers, citing security concerns

Mar 26·1 min read·11 words

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware

Mar 26·1 min read·11 words

The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now

Mar 25·1 min read·12 words

Windows native application development is a mess

Mar 23·1 min read·7 words

Java Sun SPOTs (Small Programable Object Technology)

Mar 23·1 min read·7 words

The OpenBSD init system and boot process

Mar 23·1 min read·7 words

Microsoft finally makes a few concrete promises about Windows 11 improvements

Mar 20·1 min read·11 words

Google to introduce overly onerous hoops to prevent “sideloading”

Mar 19·1 min read·9 words

You can make Linux syscalls in a Windows application, apparently

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

GNOME 50 released

Mar 18·1 min read·3 words

Introducing Duranium: an immutable variant of postmarketOS

Mar 18·1 min read·7 words

Sudo ported to DOS

Mar 18·1 min read·4 words

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers

Mar 18·1 min read·14 words

How kernel anti-cheats work: a deep dive into modern game protection

Mar 18·1 min read·11 words

Tribblix m39 released

Mar 17·1 min read·3 words

Java 26 released

Mar 17·1 min read·3 words

Han: a compiled programming language with Korean keywords written in Hangul

Mar 16·1 min read·11 words

Microsoft finally allows you to name your own home folder during Windows setup

Mar 16·1 min read·13 words

CSMWrap: make UEFI-only systems boot BIOS-based operating systems

Mar 14·1 min read·8 words

Understanding SMF properties in Solaris-based operating systems

Mar 13·1 min read·7 words

Chrome comes to Linux on ARM64

Mar 13·1 min read·6 words

Just try Plan 9 already

Mar 13·1 min read·5 words

Hello, world! in Z80 assembly language

Mar 13·1 min read·6 words

Fedora struggles bringing its RISC-V variant online due to slow build times

Mar 11·1 min read·12 words

Amazon enters “find out” phase

Mar 11·1 min read·5 words

You’re supposed to replace the stock photos in new picture frames

Mar 10·1 min read·11 words

Redox bans code regurgitated by “AI”

Mar 10·1 min read·6 words

FreeBSD 14.4 released

Mar 10·1 min read·3 words

ArcaOS 5.1.2 released

Mar 9·1 min read·3 words

“AI” translations are ruining Wikipedia

Mar 9·1 min read·5 words

“I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either”

Mar 9·1 min read·18 words

MenuetOS 1.59.20 released

Mar 9·1 min read·3 words

Haiku inches closer to next beta release

Mar 6·1 min read·7 words

Redox gets NodeJS, COSMIC’s compositor, and much more

Mar 6·1 min read·8 words

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

Mar 5·1 min read·8 words

New Oracle Solaris CBE release released

Mar 5·1 min read·6 words

The great license-washing has begun

Mar 5·1 min read·5 words

DOS memory management

Mar 5·1 min read·3 words

Lock scroll with a vengeance

Mar 4·1 min read·5 words

The new MacBook Neo is a great deal in the US, not so much in Europe

Mar 4·1 min read·16 words

Never bet against x86

Mar 3·1 min read·4 words

The 64-bit Hurd for Gux is here

Mar 3·1 min read·7 words

Setting up phones is a nightmare

Mar 2·1 min read·6 words

Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”

Mar 2·1 min read·10 words

KDE makes steady progress on Union, its unified theme engine

Mar 2·1 min read·10 words

You can use newline characters in URLs

Mar 1·1 min read·7 words

Run this random script in the terminal to block Apple’s macOS Tahoe update notification spam

Feb 28·1 min read·15 words

The Windows 95 user interface: a case study in usability engineering

Feb 28·1 min read·11 words

Bootc and OSTree: modernizing Linux system deployment

Feb 28·1 min read·7 words

Windows Server Insider builds can now boot from ReFS

Feb 27·1 min read·9 words

US lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level

Feb 27·1 min read·11 words

Jails for NetBSD

Feb 27·1 min read·3 words

Genode OS Framework 26.02 released

Feb 26·1 min read·5 words

“Linuxulator on FreeBSD feels like magic”

Feb 26·1 min read·6 words

US orders diplomats in the EU to fight data sovereignty initiatives

Feb 26·1 min read·11 words

“Never buy a .online domain”

Feb 25·1 min read·5 words

You can add a menu bar to KDE title bars with this tool, for some reason

Feb 25·1 min read·16 words

New Windows update adds Sysmon to Windows

Feb 25·1 min read·7 words

If you’ve been holding on to a phone for a while, current phones are really disappointing

Feb 24·1 min read·16 words

The age-verification trap: verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

Feb 24·1 min read·10 words

GTK-NoCSD: an LD_PRELOAD library to disable CSDs

Feb 23·1 min read·7 words

OpenBSD: anatomy of bsd.rd

Feb 23·1 min read·4 words

Microsoft announces ESU program for Windows Server 2016, 10 Enterprise LTSB, and 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB

Feb 21·1 min read·17 words

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU90 released

Feb 21·1 min read·5 words

Blue-light filters are pure quackery

Feb 21·1 min read·5 words

Windows 11 26H1 will be Snapdragon-specific

Feb 19·1 min read·6 words

Undo in Vi and its successors

Feb 19·1 min read·6 words

F9: an L4-style microkernel for ARM Cortex-M

Feb 18·1 min read·7 words

Windows 11’s new MIDI framework delivers MIDI 2.0

Feb 18·1 min read·8 words

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

Feb 18·1 min read·4 words

SvarDOS: an open-source DOS distribution

Feb 17·1 min read·5 words

Proper Linux on your wrist: AsteroidOS 2.0 released

Feb 17·1 min read·8 words

A deep dive into Apple’s .car file format

Feb 17·1 min read·8 words

dBASE on the Kaypro II

Feb 17·1 min read·5 words

Why do I not use “AI” at OSNews?

Feb 15·1 min read·8 words

Microsoft’s original Windows NT OS/2 design documents

Feb 15·1 min read·7 words

Exploring Linux on a LoongArch mini PC

Feb 15·1 min read·7 words

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

Feb 15·1 min read·9 words

Haiku further improves its touchpad support

Feb 14·1 min read·6 words

Microsoft Store gets another CLI tool

Feb 13·1 min read·6 words

The future for Tyr

Feb 13·1 min read·4 words

The original Secure Boot certificates are about to expire, but you probably won’t notice

Feb 11·1 min read·14 words

Microsoft adds and fixes remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

Kapsule adds easy developer environment containers to KDE Linux

Feb 11·1 min read·9 words

Redox gets working rustc and Cargo

Feb 10·1 min read·6 words

80386 barrel shifter

Feb 10·1 min read·3 words

“The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)”

Feb 10·1 min read·14 words

The official unplanned emergency OSNews fundraiser!

Feb 9·1 min read·6 words

The Dillo appreciation post

Feb 9·1 min read·4 words

KDE Linux improves by leaps and bounds

Feb 9·1 min read·7 words

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

Feb 9·1 min read·12 words

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast

Feb 8·1 min read·7 words

Adventures in Guix packaging

Feb 8·1 min read·4 words

The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers

Feb 7·1 min read·13 words

Commission trials European open source communications software: Matrix

Feb 7·1 min read·8 words

“I now assume that all ads on Apple News are scams”

Feb 7·1 min read·11 words

Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech’s “top priority”

Feb 5·1 min read·11 words

Microsoft has killed widgets six times

Feb 5·1 min read·6 words

Microsoft Research releases LiteBox, a new library operating system

Feb 4·1 min read·9 words