Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper OSes16 Jan 2024 | 28
Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs OSes16 Jan 2024 | 13
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup Experiment is limited to the Insider Dev Channel. For now OSes15 Jan 2024 | 70
KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy OSes15 Jan 2024 | 34
Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run. OSes15 Jan 2024 | 17
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed Updated Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux? OSes12 Jan 2024 | 140
Your pacemaker should be running open source software Opinion Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery OSes12 Jan 2024 | 52
Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession Power user excavates evidence of experimental 'Cowriter' feature OSes11 Jan 2024 | 71
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April Updated Fans of the tech dinosaur have a few months to fill their drives with software OSes10 Jan 2024 | 56
Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements OSes10 Jan 2024 | 55
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before Opinion FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way OSes08 Jan 2024 | 61
Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade OSes05 Jan 2024 | 98
Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS 86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it OSes05 Jan 2024 | 45
What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024? Modern life is rubbish. What if your favorite tech giant had stopped trying to reinvent the wheel? OSes04 Jan 2024 | 108
Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump? Pushing your buttons: Microsoft's AI assistant is going so well that it's going to have its very own spot OSes04 Jan 2024 | 84
Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again' Users aren't the only ones questioning the Windows 11 feature's utility OSes03 Jan 2024 | 131
In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries The most successful compile-it-yourself Linux distro now has compiled, packaged executables OSes03 Jan 2024 | 14
Valve celebrates New Year by blowing off Steam support for Windows 7 and 8 Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt OSes02 Jan 2024 | 20
Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10 December figures give Redmond little reason to cheer ahead of OS changes to meet EU law OSes02 Jan 2024 | 108
War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths OSes25 Dec 2023 | 224
Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11? Analysis Looking into our crystal ball we can see the end of 2024 will be filled with … AI. So much AI OSes23 Dec 2023 | 199
Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon Take an M1 or M2-powered Mac and turn it into a fast ARM64 PC, if that's what you fancy OSes21 Dec 2023 | 55
Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady Printer names messed up? Debug It Yourself OSes20 Dec 2023 | 15
Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility See, it wasn't just you OSes20 Dec 2023 | 21
Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition Bad news for several downstream distros, but good news for NetBSD OSes19 Dec 2023 | 22
Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come Comment The difference between 1983 and 1993 is vast. Since then, not so much OSes19 Dec 2023 | 264
Microsoft puts the 'why?' in Wi-Fi with latest Windows patch Redmond stuffs IT admin Christmas stockings with network issues OSes18 Dec 2023 | 37
CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves Opinion The magic that defied the iron will of Steve Jobs has a lot more to offer OSes18 Dec 2023 | 176
Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed OSes14 Dec 2023 | 40
Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies Irish software projects gear up for latest iterations OSes12 Dec 2023 | 18
Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI We used to use Edlin. And we were happy OSes12 Dec 2023 | 131
Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release A mis-merged patch causing corruption on ext4 volumes is to blame OSes12 Dec 2023 | 29
Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot OSes08 Dec 2023 | 28
Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 25
Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support This is release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – what could possibly go wrong? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 108
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it OSes07 Dec 2023 | 55
Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you OSes06 Dec 2023 | 21
Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP Not only turning up uninvited, but telling folks they suddenly have a LaserJet OSes05 Dec 2023 | 56
Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux Signs of the times: Linux's compatibility improves, while x86-32 recedes from Apple OSes04 Dec 2023 | 27
Linus Torvalds flags holiday-mode changes to next kernel merge window Penguin emperor ponders whether kernel contributors will code across the festive season, or humbug it OSes04 Dec 2023 |
Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year OSes01 Dec 2023 | 9
Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies OSes01 Dec 2023 | 46
HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached OSes30 Nov 2023 | 59
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too OSes29 Nov 2023 | 49
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS OSes28 Nov 2023 | 22
Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size An option when sun sets on Windows 10, but Microsoft might have a problem OSes27 Nov 2023 | 54
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories OSes27 Nov 2023 | 32
Do we really need another non-open source available license? Opinion No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters OSes24 Nov 2023 | 70
Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Restoration project described in BCS talk is gathering steam OSes23 Nov 2023 | 90
Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3 Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9
Microsoft unleashes Copilot preview on Windows 10 insiders Teething issues show up as operating system gets a taste of the future OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9
Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not Analysis It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting OSes21 Nov 2023 | 82
Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland Exclusive Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path OSes20 Nov 2023 | 50
Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving OSes20 Nov 2023 | 5
Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant OSes17 Nov 2023 | 50
Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot OSes17 Nov 2023 | 87
Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together OSes16 Nov 2023 | 30
RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros OSes15 Nov 2023 | 20
SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust Interview Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support... for a fee OSes14 Nov 2023 | 8
Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit) Ubuntu Summit Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too OSes13 Nov 2023 | 3