Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically OSes24 Mar 2023 | 32
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid OSes23 Mar 2023 | 13
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off' Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651 OSes22 Mar 2023 | 48
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine? OSes21 Mar 2023 | 163
Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled OSes20 Mar 2023 | 38
AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution 2023 is only one more than 2022, right? OSes20 Mar 2023 | 11
Reg FOSS desk test drive: First beta of Fedora 38 drops Spoiler: It's looking much better than 37 did at this stage OSes17 Mar 2023 | 27
Pentesters' fave Kali Linux turns 10 with version 23.1 It's also 17… and 18… and actually rather cool OSes15 Mar 2023 | 23
After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails The primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there OSes14 Mar 2023 | 46
Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out OSes13 Mar 2023 | 65
openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support Updated Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries OSes09 Mar 2023 | 7
A new version of APT is coming to Debian 12 Like 'Bookworm' itself, software manager will have improved handling of non-free packages OSes08 Mar 2023 | 25
Windows Insider Dev Channel flies again as very flighty Canary Channel Microsoft doesn't even want you to use these unstable releases, will migrate you to them anyway OSes07 Mar 2023 | 10
How to get the latest Linux kernel on your Ubuntu box And a choice of ways to get the latest KDE too, if that's your thing OSes06 Mar 2023 | 35
Linux Mint 21.2 and Cinnamon 5.8 desktop take shape Along with better integration for all three editions OSes02 Mar 2023 | 20
Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem 'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff OSes02 Mar 2023 | 71
Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+ Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to OSes01 Mar 2023 | 10
Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices Softening requirements to spur hardware sales? Nope, it was an error OSes27 Feb 2023 | 43
Official: Lomiri desktop now runs on Debian Converged environment formerly known as Unity 8 breaks free from Ubuntu – and indeed, from tablets OSes27 Feb 2023 | 3
Who writes Linux and open source software? Opinion Developers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them OSes24 Feb 2023 | 111
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info Updated Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365 Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all
By order of Canonical: Official Ubuntu flavors must stop including Flatpak by default You can add Snap's rival cross-distro packaging format back in yourself OSes23 Feb 2023 | 69
What you need to know about the real-time capable edition of Ubuntu 22.04 Don't rush in if you don't need it – there may be more cons than pros OSes20 Feb 2023 | 37
Linus Torvalds releases 'pedestrian' Linux Kernel 6.2, urges testers to show it some love Intel has as much to celebrate as anyone thanks the arc of progress catching up to its GPUs OSes20 Feb 2023 | 2
systemd 253: You're looking at the future of enterprise Linux boot processes The init system many love to hate intros tool to create Unified Kernel Image files OSes17 Feb 2023 | 52
Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro Dislike those messages about Ubuntu Pro? Then you won't like this OSes17 Feb 2023 | 57
There's no place like... KDE: Plasma 5.27 is out and GNOME 44 hits beta New versions of the two dominant desktops for Linux and other FOSS Unix-a-likes OSes16 Feb 2023 | 22
The quest to make Linux bulletproof Part 2 What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why OSes16 Feb 2023 | 101
Make Linux safer… or die trying Part 1 The OS family isn't broken – so why are so many companies trying to fix it? OSes14 Feb 2023 | 174
ChromeOS now runs on top of Linux and, er, Zephyr ... Column Google's finest via the what now? Plus: RISC-V-powered Chromebook isn't out of the question OSes14 Feb 2023 | 15
Spotted in the wild: Chimera – a Linux that isn't GNU/Linux FOSDEM It's not yet reached alpha, but it's already breaking new ground OSes13 Feb 2023 | 74
Linus Torvalds releases probably unnecessary release candidate eight for Linux 6.2 Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered OSes13 Feb 2023 | 11
Don't bore us, get to the Horus: Elementary OS 7 is here and looking good After a long wait and some company problems, the latest member of the Pantheon appears OSes10 Feb 2023 | 42
Windows November update trips up some Intel graphics drivers If you're having trouble with your games, this may be why OSes09 Feb 2023 | 4
You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you? Video Just because you can doesn’t mean you should OSes08 Feb 2023 | 98
WINE Windows translation layer has matured like a fine... you get the picture FOSDEM Along with DXVK 2.1, more and better compatibility comes to Linux – we'll drink to that OSes03 Feb 2023 | 70
System76 teases features coming in homegrown Rust-based desktop COSMIC Meanwhile, Xfce takes its first steps toward Wayland support OSes02 Feb 2023 | 41
Linux Mint 21.2 includes a bit of feature creep from the GNOME world Plus Xfce flavor desktop based on latest version 4.18 OSes01 Feb 2023 | 42
helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners OSes31 Jan 2023 | 78
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater OSes30 Jan 2023 | 101
Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes OSes28 Jan 2023 | 4
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly OSes26 Jan 2023 | 100
Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware OSes25 Jan 2023 | 39
Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation Microsoft pulls the plug as of January 31, alternatives are easy to find OSes24 Jan 2023 | 78
Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you OSes23 Jan 2023 | 19
India's Supreme Court finds Google's appeal against monopoly fines unappealing Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility OSes23 Jan 2023 | 5
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription OSes21 Jan 2023 | 147
Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs Retro Tech Week Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware OSes19 Jan 2023 | 45
Indian official reveals 'plan' to build a national mobile OS Analysis History tells us it will flop. But success might not be the real goal, so much as poking Big Tech OSes19 Jan 2023 | 31
Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future Retro Tech Week What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall OSes18 Jan 2023 | 19
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink Retro Tech Week Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future OSes17 Jan 2023 | 40
Unix is dead. Long live Unix! Comment Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. What does that leave us with? OSes17 Jan 2023 | 176
Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing This may show a future direction for Linux desktops OSes12 Jan 2023 | 77
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source Around 80 positions moved to another continent, Big Blue stays silent OSes12 Jan 2023 | 36
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime OSes11 Jan 2023 | 122
New software sells new hardware – but a threat to that symbiosis is coming Comment Complex software packages need ever gruntier specs... and Koomey’s Law awaits OSes11 Jan 2023 | 33
This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week Time has run out for users of legacy operating systems – will you upgrade or buy a new PC? OSes09 Jan 2023 | 156
Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4? We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux OSes06 Jan 2023 | 40
Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck Accensure and L'Oreal among biz users, yet general adoption still well behind predecessor OSes05 Jan 2023 | 144
Debian-based siduction gains snapshots, new recovery tools and more Where you want to be for the latest and greatest, but not for the faint of heart OSes05 Jan 2023 | 9
Calculate Linux: It's like Gentoo, but for businesses Russian distro transforms source-based rolling release into stable, versioned product… theoretically OSes04 Jan 2023 | 10
Vanilla OS 22.10: An Arch and Fedora-compatible Ubuntu Despite its name and looks, this is quite the radical departure for a Linux distro OSes03 Jan 2023 | 17
Fancy climbing into ALP over New Year's? Fresh preview versions of SUSE's distro and NetBSD 10 are here Ideal if you're looking for something to play with over the holidays OSes23 Dec 2022 | 8
What's in Santa's sack? New Linux Mint, EndeavourOS and postmarketOS updates A last-minute dose of festive FOSS freshness OSes21 Dec 2022 | 12
SystemRescue 9.06 is here with the shiny new Xfce 4.18 It also boasts MemTest86+ 6, which now can boot and run on UEFI machines OSes20 Dec 2022 | 29
Linux kernel 6.2 promises multiple filesystem improvements Meanwhile the next-gen Linux filesystems are going nowhere fast OSes20 Dec 2022 | 25
openSUSE Tumbleweed team changes its mind about x86-64-v2 Tumbleweed hits some turbulence, but there's no reason to be alarmed… 'By the way, does anyone know how to fly a plane?' OSes16 Dec 2022 | 9
What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations? Feature The 'good old days' were sometimes ugly, but please let us experience their good bits OSes13 Dec 2022 | 138
NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': Like a proof of concept you can do things with Another Linux OS – but this time it's all about the software packaging OSes13 Dec 2022 | 15
'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1 Kernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2 OSes11 Dec 2022 | 4
MacOS9.app: A tour de force of emulation and integration Friday FOSS Fest The 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s OSes09 Dec 2022 | 16
Linux kernel 6.1: Rusty release could be a game-changer Opinion Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly OSes09 Dec 2022 | 57
Fresh version of Xfce, the oldest Linux desktop of them all, revealed in Xubuntu builds 4.18 the first update of lightweight, minimalist UNIX gear since 2020 OSes08 Dec 2022 | 24
Desktop OpenSolaris fork OpenIndiana shoots fresh version – Hipster Latest offshoot of Illumos project continues development of FOSS version of Solaris OSes07 Dec 2022 | 10
Fancy some fresh Linux Mint? 21.1 enters beta, should be here by Christmas If you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version OSes05 Dec 2022 | 8
Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations OSes05 Dec 2022 | 155
Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 OSes05 Dec 2022 |
openSUSE makes baseline CPU requirements a little friendlier than feared Tumbleweed rolling-release distro to need v2 of x86-64 – and drop x86-32 edition OSes30 Nov 2022 | 20
Redox OS version 0.8 is both strange and very familiar 'Experimental operating system' it may be, but it's still Unix/Linux-like OSes29 Nov 2022 | 42
Fresh versions of Ubuntu Touch, Mir display server, and Unity arrive Make a big FOSS for Ubuntu Touch OTA-24, Mir 2.10, and the return of Unity on Arch Linux OSes29 Nov 2022 | 16
Linus Torvalds to be 'more hard-nosed' as Linux 6.2 merge window meets Christmas Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate OSes27 Nov 2022 | 9
Strong support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical meet IRL Ubuntu Summit Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects OSes09 Nov 2022 | 49
Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu Updated Advertising? 'Anything for that sweet sweet KPI' OSes08 Nov 2022 | 94
Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux Also one of the first distros we've seen with Kernel 6.0 OSes03 Nov 2022 | 18
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process The init system that everybody loves to hate OSes03 Nov 2022 | 170
9front releases new version of Plan 9 OS fork: The Golden Age of Ballooning Prepare to be confused OSes02 Nov 2022 | 12
Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs Statcounter says Number 10 is still Number 1 in the Windows world OSes02 Nov 2022 | 101
Zorin OS 16.2: Shapeshifting desktop to help the Linux-wary feel more at home Pining for Windows XP? Update to the last major release can do that OSes02 Nov 2022 | 15
Linux Lite 6.2: Latest release from distro with a misleading name One of the more popular Ubuntu-based flavors for new migrants from Windows OSes01 Nov 2022 | 22
Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives FAT ain't dead, and the modern version can get big. Really big OSes01 Nov 2022 | 38
Apple boosts bug bounties but may not fix some bugs in past operating systems Where's your spirit of Ventura? OSes28 Oct 2022 | 9
Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop Column We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner OSes28 Oct 2022 | 151
KDE 5.26 gets a second point release (yes, already) It's worth it, though. And it's easy to install the latest KDE on the latest Kubuntu OSes27 Oct 2022 | 16
The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email OSes27 Oct 2022 | 57
Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure! OSes26 Oct 2022 | 187
Teen dream team reboots Rolling Rhino into Rhino Linux Well, these distros are all about continual reinvention, after all OSes26 Oct 2022 | 5
Update time for Ubuntu: Last version of Linux kernel 5.19.17 hits Only just installed? You may need another upgrade all the same OSes25 Oct 2022 |
If you're still on Windows 7/8.1, it's time to say goodbye to Google Chrome Even better, upgrade to Windows 10 at the very least OSes25 Oct 2022 | 61
Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades Bet ya can't wait to slap that 22H2 on your machine OSes25 Oct 2022 | 22
OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released, runs on Apple M2 Macs Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets OSes21 Oct 2022 | 31