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Develop cross-platform CLI and GUI tools with Tcl/Tk
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (236+ words) Tcl, or the “Tool Command Language“, created and released by John Ousterhout in 1990, deserves a place among the greatest products of the human mind. Especially when combined with its better known graphical user interface Toolkit — Tk. In 1997 Ousterhout was awarded…...
LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64 and SPARC Solaris (snv_151a)
9+ hour, 50+ min ago (205+ words) Speaking of OpenBSD: Yes, you read that right. Modern development tools in the form of the LLVM compiler infrastructure is well on its way to supporting OpenBSD/sparc64 along with other more conventional architectures. The support is now ready for testing,…...
Dead software walking: the ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (326+ words) As I mentioned in my OpenBSD 7.8 highlights post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) had stalled. Many diffs appeared on the tech@ mailing list from different contributors, but few were committed into the repository. The main reason was simple: Established OpenBSD…...
Microsoft claims it’s going to improve Windows 11’s context menus
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (430+ words) When I had to use Windows 11 for a month because you people paid me to do so, the one seemingly small thing that really ground my gears were Windows 11’s terrible right-click (context) menus. They were full of stuff I…...
Chrome gets “live patching”
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (488+ words) We may all have a disdain for Chrome – OSNews users probably use Chrome a lot less than the average public – but that doesn’t mean the browser doesn’t sometimes do interesting things other browsers should copy. Chrome is in the the…...
Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos on your machine
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (215+ words) It’s that time of the week again, I guess. The year is 2026, and I’m still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu’s All apps list for an app I don’t remember installing. This time, it’s Microsoft…...
State of multi-player Wayland
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (406+ words) I’ve been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment! I just spent three weeks investigating how well that’s currently supported on Linux & Wayland. Let me…...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 released
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (478+ words) Ubuntu Touch, the mobile Linux operating system originally started by, you guessed it, Ubuntu, but now managed by UBports, released versions 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4. The latter is a maintenance release with some bug fixes and minor changes, while the former is a…...
Windows NT got its name from one of Intel’s failed x86 replacements
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (784+ words) Dave Farquhar published an article today about Windows NT 3.1’s place in the market when it was originally released, and while the article is interesting and a fun read, it does mention this: Microsoft took its nascent code that it…...
The Fedora 45 sausage factory
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (356+ words) This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree…...