Over the last few days and weeks or so, a few of the people I follow and interact with on Fedi have been talking about centralising information, tools, applications, and...

Windows 11 received its September update on the 8th of this month, and within days Microsoft had acknowledged or investigated problems involving Remote Desktop, USB audio, Linux and WSL-based apps...

One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and try to...

It's time for an overview of another month of Redox OS progress, and over the month of August - they're a bit late, don't believe the publication date - they've...

Can you run an operating system with a graphical user interface and applications on the Atari Jaguar? Well, you can. A long time running idea and work-in-progress, I'd like to...

Qualcomm, yesterday, promising Linux support for the new Snapdragon X2 processors: Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series is moving from early bring-up toward a more complete upstream developer experience. Core support...

Raymond Chen, longtime Microsoft employee and author of the very popular The Old New Thing blog, published an interesting post about the Win32 scrollbar. It turns out there's actually quite...

The Solaris branch for paying customers has been updated to SRU95. Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU95 updates a broad set of platform, runtime, developer, networking, desktop, and open source components. Notable...

It is impossible to go anywhere in a technology space online without hitting a wave of commentary about how stupid GDPR is. It was written by bureaucrats who don't understand...

A few months ago, Google announced it was going to put Android on laptops (and eventually, desktops), serving as eventual replacements for Chromebooks. Unlike those, though, these new Android laptops...

The GIMP will never magically become software beloved by artists—not without radically changing its culture, and making the artists the ones who call the shots. The GIMP will remain what...

Passkeys are a fantastic technology. Since they are bound to the site they are created for, they cannot be phished by a hacker’s fake login screen. If a site suffers...

Speaking of unsexy programming, we've got a new Java release. Featuring thousands of performance, stability, security, and productivity improvements, Java 27 (Oracle JDK 27) provides a strong foundation for continued...

Look, nobody's going to argue .NET is sexy, but the truth of the matter is that it's quite popular in less visible circles, so any new release is going to...

GNOME 51 has been released, with a whole slew of new features and improvements. Most notably, at least in my experience, will be the work done on GNOME's graphics stack,...

Ubuntu has been replacing core utilities with Rust rewrites, and it's now completed the process. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check...

When I used Windows for a month because you people paid me to do so, the utter lack of consistency in the way applications and the operating system itself looks,...

The Good Enough File System, originally developed for 9front, is being ported to OpenBSD. For those who haven't watched my talk, GEFS is a new, crash-safe, snapshotting, copy on write...

Apple releases its yearly cluster of operating system updates today, with the two most prominent of course being macOS and iOS/iPadOS. These new versions focus heavily on Apple's "AI" stuff,...

Want to run something a little more exotic on your server? How about GNU Guix? It has been a month since migrating my home server to GNU Guix. Managing OS...

Late 2000. There is a grey and blue tower PC on my dorm-room desk like nothing anybody who walks into the room has ever seen. The Be logo on the...

On the Windows side of the age verification question, Microsoft is obviously following trends among lawmakers the world over. To address this, Windows is introducing a new platform capability: the...

Do tech companies ever stop to think about the misery they unleash on people’s lives? The Apple Watch Series 12 uses “Audio Intelligence” that, as well as secretly taking notes,...

Although Solaris is now mostly defunct, its influence remains substantial; technologies pioneered by Solaris can still be found across a wide range of software A lot of Solaris' inventions have...

Lotus Notes was the future of communications, a decade before laptops had WiFi. Yet of all things, it wasn’t even an email app. It was a notes app, a collaboration...

The BSD news will continue until morale improves. I missed this two months ago, but Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD...

Yesterday we had the final maintenance release for the NetBSD 9.x series, and today we have FreeBSD 14.5 entering the scene. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy...

With ever-changing devices, browsers, operating systems, form factors, specifications, personal preferences, tooling, and corporate interests, the web is in a constant state of flux. As a result, so is the...

Speaking of NetBSD, the fifth and final 9x release has been released. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of...

Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step? In this post I will cover the installation process of the...

Zenith is a variant of Windows for "developer-class devices". Project Zenith comes with a set of pre-installed tools spanning languages and runtimes, source control, and productivity tools. Windows Terminal and...

We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.16! After a year and a half of development, we’re excited to showcase the improvements we’ve made between a new graphical...

Virtually all laptop speakers suck. It's the one area where even really expensive laptops tend to fall on their ass, leaving users with a tinny, harsh, and hollow sound experience....

Built on a 2 nanometer technology node, the processor’s design will contain 11 high-performance cores operating at more than 5.7 GHz, AI inference accelerators for in-transaction fraud detection, a dedicated...

It's always a special day on OSNews when Haiku has a new release. While OSNews was founded in 199, it wasn't until 2001, when Eugenia took over and relaunched the...

Right on schedule - as always - there's a new Genode OS Framework release, version 26.08. The highlights of Genode 26.08 are VirtualBox 7, improved PC performance of our custom...

Motif is great, I love how it looks and feels, and I want it to be actively maintained. I want a healthy ecosystem of Motif applications and even window managers...

AROS, the open source Amiga OS-compatible operating system, now has images available for the Raspberry Pi 3 (although some people state it also works on the Pi 4), in both...

Ah, Japan's TRON project - every few years someone discovers it anew and it bubbles back up the surface, and deservedly so, as it's an incredibly interesting operating system project...

So that is the whole pipeline exercised end-to-end. GrandSlam authenticates the Apple Account and obtains the IDS delegate. authenticateDS and id-register turn the Linux process into a registered Apple messaging...

When I wrote about using Windows 11 for a month as part of the ongoing OSNews fundraiser (keep donating to get me to do the same for macOS!), one of...

A great and concise history of the run-up to MS-DOS 2.0. Yet, there was a nagging feeling that a single-tasking CP/M clone was inadequate for the new generation of personal...

If you thought pervert glasses weren't bad enough, Apple is taking it up a notch by adding cameras to its AirPods. Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to...

I was around when Quake was launched, but I was entirely unaware of this story. By June 1996, after three years of hard work, id Software had completed their next...

Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With...

The Touch Bar arrived in 2016 seemingly already pre-doomed, on a generation of machines that had a “we’ve run out of ideas” smell all around them. The arrow keys were...

Version 7.2 of the Linux kernel has been released. Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf()vsystem call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio...

We talked about the latest release of Delphi a few days ago, and that brought me to Hans Otten's website. This site is about my experience with the Wirth school...

One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes...