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Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated `systemd`

Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities

15 Oct 01:58 | 38

Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters

14 Oct 17:03 | 24

Bad news, AMD fans: This week's Windows 11 update didn't fix your performance woes (they may be worse)

A new patch next week might

14 Oct 13:45 | 24

Microsoft slices Windows 11 update size by 40% (no, not by cutting hardware support)

Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to reverse this delta

13 Oct 12:51 | 26

Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

WSL will still be baked in if you want it – but Redmond wants you to get it from the Store

12 Oct 07:15 | 82

Japan's antitrust watchdog to probe mobile OSes

All invited to comment about how operating systems have screwed them

08 Oct 06:07 | 4

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

It's not as if gamers care about that sort of stuff

07 Oct 12:03 | 80

Gartner's Windows 11 adoption advice: Explore but don't rush

Analyst firm says new OS doesn't offer much to biz, so doesn't warrant rapid upgrade

07 Oct 06:01 | 40

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

Microsoft does not recommend this

06 Oct 12:08 | 100

Bork!Bork!Bork!

A most uncivil display in New York's Civil Court

I fought the bork and the bork won

06 Oct 08:35 | 8

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

Not quite business as usual for Microsoft

05 Oct 17:00 | 183

Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

Hardware compatibility, testing fury... though under the hood there are things to like

05 Oct 12:44 | 215

Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it

30 million Windows devices in 60k orgs studied

30 Sep 13:13 | 117

With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview

What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware?

24 Sep 15:33 | 40

CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)

Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though

24 Sep 10:01 | 68

GNOME 41: Slick with heaps of new features for users and devs – but annoyances remain

It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway

23 Sep 17:30 | 27

Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future

This could very well be the last release based on 16.04

22 Sep 15:17 | 2

Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades

Two more years! Two more years!

21 Sep 17:42 | 12

This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins

No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant

21 Sep 07:55 | 26

Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools

Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing

20 Sep 14:31 | 6

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Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Hopefully we're still listening to experts

Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU

Want one? Too late

Google's VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows

Criminals follow the money, code flaws

Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters

3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure

So says Have I Been Pwned's maintainer - but site claims breach only impacted 'handful of users'

Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution

The computer is a chauvinist, you say?

Azure Emissions Dashboard shows how you and Microsoft are slowly killing the planet with your cloud workloads

Here's an even cheerier thought – it requires a Power BI Pro subscription

WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages

Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud

LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content

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Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated `systemd`

Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities

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A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin

Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers

20 Sep 08:30 | 15

-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2

And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version 0.01

20 Sep 02:58 | 14

Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11

Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working

17 Sep 21:03 | 87

Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with -Werror as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts

'One of the messier merge windows' means the new stuff might sneak in next week

13 Sep 02:09 | 71

Microsoft releases new Windows 11 builds, confirms running on an Apple M1 'is not a supported scenario'

Old proverb: If Windows crashes on a Surface Pro X, will anyone see the bugcheck?

10 Sep 17:32 | 27

Google’s made-for-India cut of Android and the one phone that runs it delayed by chip shortages, testing

Devices were supposed to arrive Friday, November is new target

10 Sep 00:11 | 3

Don't like the new Windows 11 Start or Taskbar? Don't worry – Microsoft's got your back

Insiders, they don't like it. Bork the Taskbar, bork the Taskbar

03 Sep 17:06 | 51

Windows 11 will roll out from October 5 as Microsoft hypes new hardware

Staged updates mean potential wait till 2022 – particularly for those looking forward to Android app support

31 Aug 16:26 | 100

SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere

Ancient 'Who owns Unix?' case puts a $14.25M price tag on making some claims go away

30 Aug 05:58 | 77

When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds

'We have another 30 years to look forward to,' says Emperor Penguin – and less to worry about as Spectre-proofing code arrives

30 Aug 00:11 | 21

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Hardware requirements loophole left in

27 Aug 20:25 | 91

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

'People wanted a cleaner and simpler Start' said Microsoft, but not everyone's happy

26 Aug 15:28 | 187

30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat

Now Google reckons security isn't good enough, and Android is proprietary

25 Aug 11:19 | 94

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel

25 Aug 07:24 | 129

No place like GNOME: 41 in beta, features frozen for forthcoming release

Also: After over 10 years, last stable release of GNOME 3.x

24 Aug 20:13 | 15

Linux 5.14 had plenty of commits, work has gone smoothly – and it should debut next week

Linus Torvalds also has fun medical advice about not whacking yourself with sharp objects

23 Aug 06:15 | 19

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