4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (344+ words) I mean, this is preaching to the choir, but let's go anyway. I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3. 0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and…...

12+ hour, 39+ min ago  (495+ words) A fascinating novel approach by researchers at MIT, called Fractal, to study in-depth how processors actually work. A team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) decided to build something different. Fractal, an operating system kernel written from…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (590+ words) Five years after releasing the Amiga 1000, Commodore was about to launch the Amiga 3000, their first real high-end Amiga. With a 68030 processor, on-board SCSI and a slightly updated graphics chipset, all in a sleek desktop case, the Amiga was truly ready…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (514+ words) Oracle is sticking to its promise of more regular Solaris updates with the release of Oracle Solaris 11. 4 SRU93. This release, like other SRU releases, is for paying Solaris customers, as the CBE releases for enthusiasts are on a different cadence. With…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (652+ words) Yesterday, Google released Android 17 to Pixel devices, so late last night I updated my Pixel 10 Pro with the intent to write a news item about the release today. The reality is that that I totally forgot I even upgraded last…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (715+ words) The KDE team released KDE Plasma 6. 7 today, and with it comes a long list of improvements, new features, bug fixes, new old themes, and so much more. A new feature that is sure to please those among us who use…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (462+ words) A week or so ago, Apple announced a bunch of features for the App Store on i OS, including personalised recommendations based on your activity and usage of i OS. It turns out this includes a keylogger (taplogger?) in the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (111+ words) Another story from the good old days from Raymond Chen. During an exchange of war stories, a colleague of mine told one from back in the days when Windows included a processor emulator for x86-32 on systems that natively ran some…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (169+ words) Speaking of Free BSD, the project released version 15. 1 of their operating system today. As it's a point release, it's not full of massive changes, but it still brings the Linux KPI-based wireless drivers up to Linux 7. 0, support for the C23 version…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (323+ words) It's been a while since we've had a new operating system project written in Rust, so let's look at Zinnia. The kernel is written in (almost) 100% Rust and attempts to avoid unsafe code where possible. It implements a big range…...