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OSNews fundrasier progress
12+ hour, 47+ min ago (84+ words) " A little progress bar to keep track of our fundraiser! " " Donate through Ko-Fi " Donate through SEPA transfer " Why a fundraiser? Just a note: the UK is still in SEPA. Just don't tell anyone in the government or they might pull…...
Printing with CUPS on Open BSD
12+ hour, 47+ min ago (659+ words) Printing on Linux, mac OS, and even on Windows seems to be pretty much a solved problem, but what about printing on Open BSD? Anyway, to do so I would need to set up my HP Office Jet printer, connected…...
Get your passwords out of Bit Warden while you still can
12+ hour, 47+ min ago (115+ words) The new CEO seems to be a bellwether for what's to come for Bitwarden. He's a merger and acquisitions guy, with a history of gutting companies and selling them for parts, and changes to Bitwarden's website also indicate where it's…...
The Virtual OS Museum
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (449+ words) This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, Virtual Box, or UTM. A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured....
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (173+ words) Big news from the Haiku forums: the Haiku ARM port is running on M1 Macs now. This is bare metal, no VM. m1n1+u-boot deal with the Apple-specific parts of booting, so we can boot UEFI images from USB like any PC. " smrobtzz…...
The 21 years and 20000 posts OSNews fundraiser: a euro for every post
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (583+ words) To celebrate my 21 years and 20000 posts as OSNews" managing editor, it"s time for a massive fundraiser: a euro for every story I"ve posted over the past 21 years. Because OSNews is ad-free and independent, I rely entirely on your…...
You can now run Windows CE 2. 11 on the Nintendo 64
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (318+ words) I've seen some wild projects in my day, but this one is definitely up there as one of the more ambitious. Stock Microsoft Windows CE 2. 11 running on a real Nintendo 64. A custom HAL drops the unmodified nk. lib kernel onto…...
How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (587+ words) There is one specific way in which the non-corporate open source projects typically document how their infrastructure work: not at all, and Flathub is no different. The full picture likely lives only in my brain, and while it could be…...
Microsoft finally brings back moving and resizing the taskbar in Windows 11
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (404+ words) Microsoft is finally rolling out one of the most requested set of features to Windows 11: a movable and resizable taskbar. Windows 11 did away with the ability to move the taskbar to any side of the screen, as well as a…...
21 years and 20000 posts later
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (1539+ words) Almost exactly 21 years ago, in June 2005, at a mere 20 years old, I took over the managing editor role at OSNews from Eugenia. I had already published a few articles in the years prior, and had given Eugenia enough confidence to…...