1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (309+ words) But NixOS isn't the only declarative distro out there. In fact GNU forked Nix fairly early and made their own spin called Guix, whose big innovation is that, instead of using the unwieldy Nix-language, it uses Scheme. Specifically Guile Scheme,…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (190+ words) I previously covered x64 OpenVMS release on VMware. This was insanely cool achievement for the operating system. While it had no practical ramification there was one small annoyance. The OS console was on a serial port. In VMware it meant another…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (566+ words) It's no secret that Windows 11 isn't exactly well-liked by even most of its users, and I'm fairly sure that perception has permeated into the general public as well. It seems Microsoft is finally getting the message, and they're clearly spooked:…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (368+ words) Operating systems written in Rust " especially for embedded use " are quite common these days, and today's example fits right into that trend. Ariel OS is an operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things (IoT). It is based on…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (210+ words) But was that always the case? Well, we've got new ROMs straight from a former Apple employee, and after flashing them to a supported ROM chip, the Apple Network Sever can now run classic Mac OS. On top of that,…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (858+ words) As such, they've decided to develop a Wayland compositor from scratch: xfwl4. The goal is, that xfwl4 will offer the same functionality and behavior as xfwm4 does, or as much as possible considering the differences between X11 and Wayland. Using xfwl4 should feel just like…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (612+ words) Since I have no qualms about kicking a proprietary software product while it's down, let's now switch to NTDEV's thoughts on the state of Windows 11. Unfortunately, the issue that plagued Windows since the dawn of time has only aggravated recently....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (551+ words) I've been terribly sick for a few days so we've got some catching up to. Let's first take a look at how Windows is doing. People often say Linux is "too much work." And I agree. They're completely justified to…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (124+ words) 9front, by far the best operating system in the whole world, pushed out a new release, titled "GEFS SERVICE PACK 1". Even with only a few changes, this is still, as always, a more monumental, important, and groundbreaking release than any other…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (51+ words) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to sneak into the earliest parts of the boot process, swap the startup config without breaking anything, and leave without a trace. Are you ready? Let's begin. " Jynn Nelson Genius. Are…...