Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
OSes09 Jun 2023 | 92
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File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build
Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe
OSes08 Jun 2023 | 93
One small Leap for OpenSUSE as 15.5 arrives ahead of business sibling
Will be followed soon after by SLE 15 SP 5 as org continues prep for ALP
OSes08 Jun 2023 | 4
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17
WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists
OSes07 Jun 2023 | 14
Spend to save?
When Open Source Linux might be better with a price tag
Webinar
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024
Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too
OSes06 Jun 2023 | 65
Microsoft Windows edges closer to SMB security signing fully required by default
'This is certainly the biggest change we've made since the campaign to remove SMB1'
OSes06 Jun 2023 | 36
Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for
If Ubuntu is getting you down, check out its grandad
OSes05 Jun 2023 | 52
Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in
Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond
OSes02 Jun 2023 | 87
Windows driver woes trip AMD GPU owners, blind Arm-powered cameras
Rollbacks and workarounds abound
OSes30 May 2023 | 12
Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11
We almost forgot Redmond had an interest in anything but x86
OSes29 May 2023 | 10
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux
Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers
OSes26 May 2023 | 55
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux
The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
OSes26 May 2023 | 141
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save
Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11
OSes25 May 2023 | 6
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us
Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version
OSes19 May 2023 | 5
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too
Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk
OSes19 May 2023 | 94
Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland
Got an Apple Silicon Mac? Want to run Linux? Then you'll need a Wayland-based desktop
OSes17 May 2023 | 108
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems
Small but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones
OSes16 May 2023 | 6
Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not
Also, Windows 12 might be on the way, so buckle up
OSes15 May 2023 | 119
An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed
Remember Linspire, formerly known as LindowsOS? It's now Freespire and thriving
OSes15 May 2023 | 33
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GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims
Google changes email authentication after spoof shows a bad delivery for UPS
Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy
FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans
No protection without surveillance?
Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas...
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology
'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor
Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!
On Call Change approval board signed off as soon as it heard it was BT's fault
File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build
Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe
Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside
Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy
BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business
Episode 11 Contracts. Do you read them?
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EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers
Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions
OSes12 May 2023 | 80
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin
OSes11 May 2023 | 48
Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads
Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state
OSes05 May 2023 | 28
Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps
Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages
OSes03 May 2023 | 4
When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain
Comment Gosh, you're a fussy old lot, aren't you?
OSes03 May 2023 | 179
Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in
Exclusive 'Reject this capitalist logic' urges French legion within Linux slinger
OSes28 Apr 2023 | 47
No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final
Shift off to Win 11 now, go on... better hope your biz is giving out fresh hardware
OSes28 Apr 2023 | 210
iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS
Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped
OSes28 Apr 2023 | 39
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff
Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO
OSes24 Apr 2023 | 28
Linux 6.3 debuts after 'nice, controlled release cycle'
Preps for Intel's Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel
OSes24 Apr 2023 | 5
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view
You may be all a Flutter over the installer
OSes20 Apr 2023 | 21
More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some
Others are resigned to inevitability and argue it's better than a subscription
OSes17 Apr 2023 | 115
Sick of GNOME, Snap and Flatpak? You might like Linux Lite, but beware rough edges
6.4 is based on Ubuntu 22.04.2 with a lot of the questionable aspects fixed
OSes17 Apr 2023 | 19
Linux kernel 6.3 on track for debut next week after ‘nice uneventful release cycle’
Which is just how Linus Torvalds wants it and who can argue after what he recommended you eat for Easter
OSes17 Apr 2023 | 6
Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power
Opinion Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM
OSes14 Apr 2023 | 25
Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades
In Windows 11 it'll soon default to the Snipping Tool. And that's just fine with users, right?
OSes13 Apr 2023 | 64
Double BSD birthday bash beckons – or triple, if you count MidnightBSD 3.0
Both FreeBSD 13.2 and OpenBSD 7.3 are here
OSes13 Apr 2023 | 22
Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' beta is here in all its glitchy glory
That means next version of the most popular Linux distro is getting close
OSes04 Apr 2023 | 32
OpenMandriva Rome version 23.03 is out now
Fresh installation image for the rolling-release edition of OpenMandriva
OSes31 Mar 2023 | 12
It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in
And it looks like educational flavor Edubuntu is returning, too
OSes30 Mar 2023 | 17
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans
OSes29 Mar 2023 | 53
Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon
Could have something to do with Ubuntu kicking Flatpak. Meanwhile, SUSE may be pulling up closer to rival Red Hat
OSes28 Mar 2023 | 20
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
Updated All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
OSes24 Mar 2023 | 54
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives
A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid
OSes23 Mar 2023 | 14
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 | 51
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 | 166
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 | 28
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 | 4
Who writes Linux and open source software?
Opinion Developers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them
OSes24 Feb 2023 | 111
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 | 70
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 | 102
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 | 18
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 | 177
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 | 123
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
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