8+ hour, 43+ min ago  (856+ words) It seems like Apple is finally going to remove support for AFP from mac OS, twelve years after first moving from AFP to SMB for its default network file-sharing technology. This change shouldn't impact most people, as it's highly unlikely…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (461+ words) Dillo is an amazing web browser for those of us who want their web browsing experience to be calmer and less flashing. Dillo also happens to be a very UNIX-y browser, and their latest release, 3. 3. 0, underlines that. A new dilloc…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (723+ words) Ubuntu, being one of the more commercial Linux distributions, was always going to jump on the "AI" bandwagon, and Jon Seager, Canonical's VP Engineering, published a blog post with more details. Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (736+ words) Raymond Chen published a blog post about how a crappy uninstaller on Windows caused a mysterious spike in the number of Explorer (Windows" graphical shell) crashes. It turns out the buggy uninstaller caused repeated crashes in the 32bit version of Explorer…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (186+ words) Not too long ago I had a need and an opportunity to re-acquaint myself with the mechanism used for software emulation of the 8087 FPU on 8086/8088 machines. " Michal Necasek Look, when a Michal Necasek article starts out like this, you know…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (290+ words) In that reading "AI" is a machine for the creation of epistemic injustice and the replacement of truth with what a tech elite wants it to be in order to control the population. This is a Fascist project that not…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (416+ words) Sebastian Wick has a great explanation of why opening files " programmatically " is a lot more complex and fraught with dangers than you might think it is. This issue was relevant for Wick as he is one of the lead developers…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (412+ words) I'm not sure many OSNews readers still use Ubuntu as their operating system of choice, and from the release announcement of today's Ubuntu 26. 04 it's clear why that's the case. Resolute Raccoon builds on the resilience-focused improvements introduced in interim releases,…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (207+ words) You can find beauty in the oddest of places. WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6. 19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (281+ words) Despite years of apparent stagnation and reported mass layoffs, it seems the Solaris team at Oracle has found somewhat of a renewed stride recently. Both branches of Solaris " the one for paying customers (SRU) and the free one for enthusiasts…...