21+ hour, 37+ min ago  (587+ words) RISC-V has been in the "promising" phase for a long time now, especially for general purpose computing, never really breaking through into the mainstream in any measurable way. While I think that breakthrough is still relatively far away, we now…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (437+ words) I've mentioned it before, but Chris Siebenmann is basically the Raymond Chen of the UNIX world, and today he's filling that role perfectly once again. I recently read Simon Tatham's Nitpicking the shell history scene in Tron: Legacy, where one…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (403+ words) Roku, the company that makes TV boxes and sells ad space based on your usage patterns, has released its remote control operating system as open source " and by remote control I don't mean robot stuff or whatever, but actual remote…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (205+ words) Raymond Chen shares some history regarding Windows 8s development: During the development of Windows 8, we needed a name for "that thing were creating." Not being a particularly clever bunch when it comes to code names, we just called it "the modern…...

2+ day, 14+ min ago  (256+ words) For the past few years, Microsoft has been phasing out NTLM in Windows in favor of Kerberos-based alternatives. Starting with the next versions of client and server editions of Windows, Microsoft will also be disabling the legacy authentication protocol by…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (544+ words) At its Build conference, Microsoft announced coreutils for Windows. Coreutils for Windows is a Microsoft-maintained set of UNIX-style command-line utilities that run natively on Windows " the same commands and pipelines you use on Linux, mac OS, and WSL. It ships…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (409+ words) On the Vogon forums, user Mark Dastedt posted an interesting bit of source code he discovered on an old company DVD: a very basic, very rudimentary implementation of multicore support for DOS. Another user, dartfrog, took a closer look and had…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (335+ words) A hobby operating system, not written in Rust, not targeting Qemu, not targeting a Raspberry Pi. Yes, it still happens. Serena OS is what you get when modern operating system design and implementation meets vintage hardware like the Amiga computers....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (290+ words) Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (273+ words) Win Utils started in 1996-1997 as a way to build my programming chops. I was poking around the Windows 95 shell APIs, found the file operation functions, and thought it would be cool to have CLI tools that called them instead of…...