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Canonical and Microsoft get cosier with Active Directory integration in Ubuntu 21.04

SQL Server optimisations on way too, but 'Hirsute Hippo' not an LTS release so take-up may be tepid

22 Apr 18:45 | 3

Microsoft loves Linux – as in, it loves Linux users running Linux desktop apps on Windows PCs

Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here

22 Apr 06:18 | 51

University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

21 Apr 19:47 | 161

Linus Torvalds reluctantly issues one more release candidate for Linux kernel 5.12

We gotta do this again? Really? Oh, alright then. But this eight release candidates thing is not great

18 Apr 23:59 | 5

Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

It's time to move on from 2016

16 Apr 15:43 | 48

Zorin OS 16 beta claims largest built-in app library 'of any open source desktop ever'

Linux for Windows switchers: smooth user experience, if users steer clear of Windows apps on Wine

15 Apr 20:15 | 62

There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux

Private preview for now, Windows and macOS users sought for testing

14 Apr 13:03 | 48

FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'

Unix-like operating system is hilarious – even the support is in tiers

12 Apr 13:30 | 15

Asahi Linux devs merge effort to run Linux on Apple M1 silicon into kernel

Slated for inclusion in version 5.13, due about three months from now

09 Apr 07:30 | 13

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Nestled between donuts and gingerbread creations lurks the Windows 7 EOS fairy

Windows whinging? Take your mind off it with a sausage roll

07 Apr 09:29 | 11

Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead

Not to worry, zombies with a gambling addiction probably won't eat your enterprise brains

06 Apr 08:45 | 107

Canonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave

But no official Linux GUI support yet

01 Apr 13:31 | 31

New systemd 248 feature 'extension images' updates immutable file systems without really updating them

Plus other improvements to the Linux service manager

01 Apr 11:03 | 58

Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study

Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say

01 Apr 07:10 | 81

IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos

Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring

31 Mar 20:48 | 87

Linus Torvalds worries kernel 5.12 might be ‘one of those releases’ that lands a tad late

Driver and networking changes keep coming and io_uring is being noisy

29 Mar 00:03 | 22

Mac OS X at 20: A rocky start, but it got the fundamentals right for a macOS future

For pity's sake, don't thank Jobs

26 Mar 12:20 | 69

Shedding the 'bleeding edge' label: If Fedora is only going to be for personal use, that doesn't work for Red Hat

Ahead of Fedora 34 release, we talk to project leader Matthew Miller

25 Mar 21:42 | 29

Bell Labs transfers copyright of influential ‘Plan 9’ OS to new foundation

Unix creators’ sequel-of-sorts seeks simpler licensing, fewer forks of OS that offered precursors to Linux, microservices, etc

24 Mar 05:57 | 17

FreeBSD 13.0 to ship without WireGuard support as dev steps in to fix 'grave issues' with initial implementation

Public spat over code quality, reworked code set for 13.1 release, pfSense firewall also affected

23 Mar 12:00 | 34

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set

But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3

AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up

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Windows 10 Insider build fixes the fix it sent out to fix the fix that broke printing? Afraid not, but here's a new Notepad icon

Terminal and Power Automate elevated to inbox status, Auto HDR for gamers

18 Mar 23:45 | 26

Let it snow: Android 12 Developer Preview 2 lands, bringing UI and security API tweaks

World's most used mobile phone OS gets some new toys

18 Mar 21:21 | 3

UBports community delivers 'second-largest release of Ubuntu Touch ever'

Linux for smartphones: OTA-16 brings fixes for brave Android avoiders

18 Mar 11:03 | 18

Asahi's plan for Linux on Apple's new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting

Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1

13 Mar 15:20 | 60

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

Microsoft's rigorous testing at work

11 Mar 16:20 | 136

Linus Torvalds issues early Linux Kernel update to fix swapfile SNAFU

‘Subtle and very nasty bug’ meant 5.12 rc1 could trash entire filesystems

07 Mar 23:37 | 56

Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation

Software remains pretty much the same... but at twice the price

05 Mar 01:52 | 38

Microsoft celebrates Ignite by ramming 21H1 down the throats of Windows Insiders

Ready or not, here I come!

03 Mar 15:30 | 3

Microsoft previews Windows Server 2022: Someone took a spanner to core plumbing features

New Windows Server ahoy - but the company would rather talk about Azure

02 Mar 14:00 | 28

Bork!Bork!Bork!

The Great Borkish Breakfast: I'll have a cup of tea, a sausage roll and a side of bork, please

Microsoft's OS might be time-expired, but the pastry is, well, far too edible

02 Mar 11:25 | 27

Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates

It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team

02 Mar 10:30 | 67

Linus Torvalds went six days without electricity, swears smaller 5.12 kernel is co-incidental

Devs told if they really, really, need more time for merges they can have it

01 Mar 02:07 | 68

Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine

Still, it's probably best to stick with eye-wateringly expensive official peripherals

26 Feb 21:01 | 41

Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?

Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends)

26 Feb 17:14 | 60

'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security

Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source

24 Feb 16:01 | 33

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel

Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art?

24 Feb 09:31 | 41

macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs

AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes

Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions

Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder

23 Feb 13:33 | 76

Microsoft drives up in a LXSS: Hop in, we're taking the Windows Update offramp to Linux 5.4 town

Also: Windows 10 21H1 sent to the beta channel

18 Feb 12:45 | 1

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