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Linux 7. 0 released " OSnews
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (252+ words) Version 7. 0 of the Linux kernel has been released, marking the arbitrary end of the 6. x series. Significant changes in this release include the removal of the "experimental" status for Rust code, a new filtering mechanism for io_uring operations, a switch to…...
The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (212+ words) It's got some disturbingly euphemistic content. The find, fix, track, target, engage, assess (F2 T2 EA) process requires ubiquitous access to data at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Red Hat Device Edge embeds captured, analyzed, and federated data sets in a…...
Free BSD works best on one of these laptops
3+ day, 10+ min ago (293+ words) If you want to run Free BSD on a laptop, you're often yanked back to the Linux world of 20 years ago, with many components and parts not working and other issues such as sleep and wake problems. Free BSD has…...
Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (420+ words) It may sound unbelievable to some, but not everyone has a datacenter beast with 128 GB of VRAM shoved in their desktop PCs. Around the world people tell the tale of a particularly fierce group of Linux gamers: Those who dare…...
USB for software developers
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (267+ words) This post aims to be a high level introduction to using USB for people who may not have worked with Hardware too much yet and just want to use the technology. There are amazing resources out there such as USB…...
Redox sees another months of improvements
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (201+ words) The months keep coming, and thus, the monthly progress reports keep coming, too, for Redox, the new general purpose operating system written in Rust. This past month, there's been considerable graphics improvements, better deadlock detection in the kernel, improved Unicode…...
Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (416+ words) You might have seen this, one of the strangest and most primitive experiences in mac OS, where you're asked to press keys next to left Shift and right Shift, whatever they might be. Perhaps I can explain. " Marcin Wichary It…...
Mac OS X 10. 0 Cheetah ported to Nintendo Wii
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (575+ words) Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, Net BSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. In this post, I'll share how I ported the first version of…...
The 499th patch for 2. 11 BSD released
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (322+ words) This year sees 35 years since 2. 11 BSD was announced on March 14, 1991 " itself a slightly late celebration of 20 years of the PDP-11 " and January 2026 brought what looks to be the venerable 16-bit OS's biggest ever patch! Much of the 1. 3 MB size is…...
Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (118+ words) From 2024, but still accurate and interesting: Plan 9 is unique in this sense that everything the system needs is covered by the base install. This includes the compilers, graphical environment, window manager, text editors, ssh client, torrent client, web server, and…...