Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
OSes24 Mar 2023 | 32
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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
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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
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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
CERN, Fermilab particle boffins bet on AlmaLinux for big science
CentOS tossed
OSes08 Dec 2022 | 15
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
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