18+ hour, 33+ min ago  (575+ words) Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, Net BSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. In this post, I'll share how I ported the first version of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (322+ words) This year sees 35 years since 2. 11 BSD was announced on March 14, 1991 " itself a slightly late celebration of 20 years of the PDP-11 " and January 2026 brought what looks to be the venerable 16-bit OS's biggest ever patch! Much of the 1. 3 MB size is…...

2+ day, 6+ min ago  (118+ words) From 2024, but still accurate and interesting: Plan 9 is unique in this sense that everything the system needs is covered by the base install. This includes the compilers, graphical environment, window manager, text editors, ssh client, torrent client, web server, and…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (245+ words) Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3 microkernel, SYSTEM user-mode supervisor, and a base set of servers implementing the base…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (804+ words) Anyone remember the KDE 4. 0 themes Oxygen and Air? Well, several KDE developers have been working tirelessly to bring them back, which means they're patching it up, fixing bugs, and generally making these classic themes work well in the current releases…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (121+ words) This is a great post, but obviously it hasn't convinced me: It's a deeply depressing reversed "what have the Romans ever done for us?" that makes me sad, more than anything. I've seen so many otherwise smart, caring, and genuine…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (622+ words) If you're using Windows or mac OS and have Adobe Creative Cloud installed, you may want to take a peek at your hosts file. It turns out Adobe adds a bunch of entries into the hosts file, for a very…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (115+ words) An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained Io T and embedded devices. Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling. " Tiny OS Git Hub page Written in C, open source, and supports ARM and RISC-V. An ultra-lightweight real-time…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (242+ words) This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost Open AI, its largest…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (226+ words) Another major improvement in Redox: a brand new scheduler which improves performance under load considerably. We have replaced the legacy Round Robin scheduler with a Deficit Weighted Round Robin scheduler. Due to this, we finally have a way of assigning…...