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Personal Tech09 Mar 2026 | 14
Liam is an EMEA-based Register journalist covering free-and-open-source software (FOSS), operating systems, and cloud developments. Prior to joining our publisher, he has had decades of experience in the worlds of IT and publishing, with roles ranging from tech support and IT manager to teacher, technical writer, and software director.
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
Applications09 Mar 2026 | 15
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
OSes06 Mar 2026 | 197
Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification
Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI
Offbeat06 Mar 2026 | 43
Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet
Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online
Software05 Mar 2026 | 18
Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed
Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor
Software04 Mar 2026 | 30
BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13
Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing
OSes03 Mar 2026 | 14
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak
Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading isn't allowed
OSes02 Mar 2026 | 39
Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality
A handy feature you can already try in recent versions
Software02 Mar 2026 | 31
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora
Applications02 Mar 2026 | 58
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop
OSes26 Feb 2026 | 25
Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security
Software25 Feb 2026 | 25
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
AI + ML25 Feb 2026 | 208
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold
FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork
OSes24 Feb 2026 | 54
KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on
BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die
OSes24 Feb 2026 | 45
Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI
Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance
Applications23 Feb 2026 | 22
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress
Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it
OSes16 Feb 2026 | 68
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
Hands-on Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course
Applications14 Feb 2026 | 76
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea
Software12 Feb 2026 | 126
River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management
FOSDEM 2026 Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on
Software11 Feb 2026 | 38
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer
FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?
Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 57
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Networks09 Feb 2026 | 25
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter
Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles
Off-Prem08 Feb 2026 | 242
CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit
FOSDEM 2026 The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize
OSes05 Feb 2026 | 13
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech
Software04 Feb 2026 | 153
Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11
An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows
Personal Tech27 Jan 2026 | 23
KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd
Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work
OSes26 Jan 2026 | 48
Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need
A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too
OSes25 Jan 2026 | 38
China’s Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop - and, yes, built-in AI
Hands On Where FOSS desktop OSes meet geopolitics
OSes23 Jan 2026 | 61
Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud
Hands On There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more
OSes22 Jan 2026 | 43
MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems
Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help
OSes21 Jan 2026 | 17
Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly
More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser
OSes20 Jan 2026 | 11
Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking
Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
Software19 Jan 2026 | 57
Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software
'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast
AI + ML18 Jan 2026 | 33
Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'
Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons
OSes16 Jan 2026 | 76
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.
OSes15 Jan 2026 | 123
Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around
Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks
Software14 Jan 2026 | 36
Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow
The Emperor Penguin has a go… just for fun
AI + ML13 Jan 2026 | 53
IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship
Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig
Software12 Jan 2026 | 12
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom
A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
OSes12 Jan 2026 | 67
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot
Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else
OSes09 Jan 2026 | 42
Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind
'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'
OSes08 Jan 2026 | 129
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
Opinion Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'
OSes07 Jan 2026 | 165
What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32
It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work
OSes06 Jan 2026 | 202
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more
Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does
OSes05 Jan 2026 | 63
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
Applications05 Jan 2026 | 149
You don't need Linux to run free and open source software
Part 2 Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows
OSes25 Dec 2025 | 148
Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date
Part 1 Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026
OSes24 Dec 2025 | 88
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
Storage23 Dec 2025 | 109
Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges
Hands On Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle
OSes22 Dec 2025 | 16
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree
Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen
OSes19 Dec 2025 | 67
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.
Software18 Dec 2025 | 64
New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony
hands on Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs
Personal Tech15 Dec 2025 | 74
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras
OSes11 Dec 2025 | 29
Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13
Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build
OSes09 Dec 2025 | 20
Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered
Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone?
OSes08 Dec 2025 | 20
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
Software08 Dec 2025 | 27
Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it
Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite
OSes05 Dec 2025 | 13
FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process
OSes05 Dec 2025 | 84
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve
OSes03 Dec 2025 | 17
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