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Sam Altman wants to take your RAM "From a global allocation ...

2026-11-02T16:35:51Z

Sam Altman wants to take your RAM

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time," Altman said. "You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition i

https://www.osnews.com/story/146277/sam-altman-wants-to-take-your-ram/

#Technofascism

How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months From ...

2026-10-31T07:10:06Z

How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months

From curl 8.12 through 8.16, config files could slice variable values and include other config files without an explicit depth cap. Together, these features let curl simulate any two-counter Minsky program. Under the usual idealization of unbounded strings and resources, this construction was Turing-complete.

Curl 8.1

https://www.osnews.com/story/146271/how-curl-was-accidentally-turing-complete-for-nine-months/

#Internet

AlpineBSD combines NetBSD with Alpine’s apk package manager ...

2026-10-30T00:16:34Z

AlpineBSD combines NetBSD with Alpine’s apk package manager

AlpineBSD is an operating system based on the NetBSD kernel with a userspace inspired by Alpine Linux and the objective of making it possible to use as little AI-generated software as possible. There is no LLM output included in the base system or main package repository (AlpineBSD AI policy).
↫ AlpineBSD's website

https://www.osnews.com/story/146267/alpinebsd-combines-netbsd-with-alpines-apk-package-manager/

#NetBSD

OpenBSD 8.0 released Hot on the heels of Wine being ported to ...

2026-10-20T17:50:58Z

OpenBSD 8.0 released

Hot on the heels of Wine being ported to OpenBSD, we now have the release of OpenBSD 8.0. It adds hibernate support for arm64, switches the soarc64 toolchain to LLVM, and updates the DRM graphics drivers to Linux 6.18.53, which also adds support for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) graphics cards. There's a whole bunch of improvements, fixes, and changes for RISC-V and ARM in general, of cour

https://www.osnews.com/story/146200/openbsd-8-0-released/

#OpenBSD

Wine ported to OpenBSD, runs modern Windows games In what is ...

2026-10-19T06:38:44Z

Wine ported to OpenBSD, runs modern Windows games

In what is quite a major achievement, Wine has been ported and made to work on OpenBSD.

We have since tested several dozens of 64-bit Windows software, mostly successfully. See screenshots, livestream recordings for example. Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well (requires adding in vkd3d

https://www.osnews.com/story/146195/wine-ported-to-openbsd-runs-modern-windows-games/

#OpenBSD

Single-partition encrypted NetBSD 11 root What if a regular, ...

2026-10-19T06:31:26Z

Single-partition encrypted NetBSD 11 root

What if a regular, normal NetBSD installation is too plebeian for you?

This is a quick overview which attempts to synthesize DW Armstrong's tutorial on NetBSD encryption with the cgdroot page from the NetBSD wiki in a single MBR partition, divided into multiple disklabel slices to preserve MBR entries.
↫ indigoparadox Web Zone

What if you need thi

https://www.osnews.com/story/146193/single-partition-encrypted-netbsd-11-root/

#NetBSD

Linux 7.3 released Significant changes in this release include ...

2026-10-19T06:21:10Z

Linux 7.3 released

Significant changes in this release include some significant binfmt_misc extensions, some group-scheduling work aimed at improving performance on large systems, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, the completion of the sched_ext subscheduler feature, working-set tracking for virtual machines, alternative data-stream sup

https://www.osnews.com/story/146191/linux-7-3-released/

#Linux

Palm OS developer archive: Palm OS development resources, SDKs, ...

2026-10-16T20:47:09Z

Palm OS developer archive: Palm OS development resources, SDKs, documentation, and utilities

This repository contains approximately 1 GB of historical Palm OS development material, collected over many years of working with the platform.

The archive includes a mixture of publicly distributed development resources, personal development material, te

https://www.osnews.com/story/146174/palm-os-developer-archive-palm-os-development-resources-sdks-documentation-and-utilities/

#Mobile

Costa: a modern, maintained graphical shell for DOS Graphical ...

2026-10-15T13:20:23Z

Costa: a modern, maintained graphical shell for DOS

Graphical user interfaces for DOS were a dime-a-dozen back in the '90s, but of course faded into irrelevance as time went on. But what if you still run DOS today, and want a maintained graphical shell instead of the rather limited DOS command line?

Costa is a small and lightweight application which runs on top of MS-DOS or compatibl

https://www.osnews.com/story/146160/costa-a-modern-maintained-graphical-shell-for-dos/

#OSNews

KDE Plasma 6.8 released KDE turns 30 today, and they're ...

2026-10-14T15:03:51Z

KDE Plasma 6.8 released

KDE turns 30 today, and they're celebrating it with a brand new KDE Plasma release: version 6.8 is here. On the accessibility front, 6.8 brings a new dwell clicker function (meaning a click will register if the pointer is held still for a short while) and support for the Bikram Sambat calendar and the Amharic language. I always love it when I see support for new languages and scripts, especia

https://www.osnews.com/story/146152/kde-plasma-6-8-released/

#KDE

Windows’ legacy 8.3 filename support actually negatively ...

2026-10-05T21:41:21Z

Windows’ legacy 8.3 filename support actually negatively affects performance

To this day, Windows retains full support for the old MS-DOS 8.3 filename limitation, and it does this by creating 8.3 aliases for files with longer names. Apparently, this has a measurable effect on performance, so naturally, people are going to turn it off to make their Windows ins

https://www.osnews.com/story/146073/windows-legacy-8-3-filename-support-actually-negatively-affects-performance/

#Windows

MotifCentral: all things Motif/Xt/Xlib Over the last few days and ...

2026-09-28T18:17:19Z

MotifCentral: all things Motif/Xt/Xlib

Over the last few days and weeks or so, a few of the people I follow and interact with on Fedi have been talking about centralising information, tools, applications, and expertise from the Motif (and Xt, Xlib, and X11) ecosystem. There's a ton of information, resources, and actively maintained applications out there, but it's all spread out and sometimes difficul

https://www.osnews.com/story/146041/motifcentral-all-things-motif-xt-xlib/

#Unix

Amiga screens: a primer One of the unwritten rules of the ...

2026-09-25T23:10:18Z

Amiga screens: a primer

One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and try to explain the concept of screens. Amiga screens can have different resolutions, we'll tell you, and one can drag them, we'll say, and other Amiga users rally in agreement, while non-Amiga users probably still don't get w

https://www.osnews.com/story/146031/amiga-screens-a-orimer/

#AmigaAROS

Redox runs Qemu, gets multicore support for ARM It's time for ...

2026-09-25T22:44:17Z

Redox runs Qemu, gets multicore support for ARM

It's time for an overview of another month of Redox OS progress, and over the month of August - they're a bit late, don't believe the publication date - they've implemented multicore support for ARM, and considerably improved the I/O performance for the NVMe driver, RedoxFS, and RAMFS by implementing a ring buffer communication API. There's a

https://www.osnews.com/story/146029/redox-runs-qemu-gets-multicore-support-for-arm/

#RedoxOS

We’ve been here before: Qualcomm promises Linux support for ...

2026-09-25T06:31:00Z

We’ve been here before: Qualcomm promises Linux support for Snapdragon X2

Qualcomm, yesterday, promising Linux support for the new Snapdragon X2 processors:

Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series is moving from early bring-up toward a more complete upstream developer experience. Core support is landing, Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU work is progressing, and real laptops wi

https://www.osnews.com/story/146022/weve-been-here-before-qualcomm-promises-linux-support-for-snapdragon-x2/

#Linux

The state of scrollbars in Windows makes even longtime Microsoft ...

2026-09-23T22:40:27Z

The state of scrollbars in Windows makes even longtime Microsoft engineers sad

Raymond Chen, longtime Microsoft employee and author of the very popular The Old New Thing blog, published an interesting post about the Win32 scrollbar. It turns out there's actually quite a few interesting shortcuts and useful hidden features, like clicking inside a scrollbar wh

https://www.osnews.com/story/146018/the-state-of-scrollbars-in-windows-makes-even-longtime-microsoft-engineers-sad/

#Windows

NetBSD 11 from scratch Why use an installer to install an ...

2026-09-07T18:00:06Z

NetBSD 11 from scratch

Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step?

In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD “from scratch”, as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts

https://www.osnews.com/story/145917/netbsd-11-from-scratch/

#NetBSD

EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution and ...

2026-08-27T20:19:04Z

EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution and desktop environment to massively improve laptop speaker sound quality

Virtually all laptop speakers suck. It's the one area where even really expensive laptops tend to fall on their ass, leaving users with a tinny, harsh, and hollow sound experie

https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-desktop-environment-to-massively-improve-laptop-speaker-sound-quality/

#MultimediaAV

The road to MS-DOS 2 A great and concise history of the run-up to ...

2026-08-18T09:59:23Z

The road to MS-DOS 2

A great and concise history of the run-up to MS-DOS 2.0.

Yet, there was a nagging feeling that a single-tasking CP/M clone was inadequate for the new generation of personal computers. Digital Research released multi-user, multitasking MP/M-86 in September 1981 and announced the single‑user multitasking Concurrent CP/M in early 1982. In response, Microsoft came up with a plan for tiered a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145852/the-road-to-ms-dos-2/

#LegacyOSes

PervertPods: Apple is adding cameras to AirPods If you thought ...

2026-08-18T09:41:15Z

PervertPods: Apple is adding cameras to AirPods

If you thought pervert glasses weren't bad enough, Apple is taking it up a notch by adding cameras to its AirPods.

Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.

In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the Ai

https://www.osnews.com/story/145850/pervertpods-apple-is-adding-cameras-to-airpods/

#Apple

Quake shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full I was around ...

2026-08-18T09:25:00Z

Quake shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

I was around when Quake was launched, but I was entirely unaware of this story.

By June 1996, after three years of hard work, id Software had completed their next title, Quake. As for their previous title, they were going to release both a shareware version and a full version of their game. Since it used a mere 22 MiB of storage, people a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145848/quake-shareware-a-cd-rom-just-a-little-too-full/

#Games

The OSNews Fundraiser continues: you made me use Windows, now ...

2026-08-12T18:40:36Z

The OSNews Fundraiser continues: you made me use Windows, now make me use macOS

The OSNews Fundraiser, to celebrate the fact I posted 20000 stories in 21 years, is still underway. The first major incentive was reached, and I, a long-time Linux user, published my experiences using Windows 11 for a month. It wasn't a success. Keep donating if you want to find ou

https://www.osnews.com/story/145747/the-osnews-fundraiser-continues-you-made-me-use-windows-now-make-me-use-macos/

#OSNews

Google hammers another, extremely petty nail in the Android Open ...

2026-08-11T22:45:31Z

Google hammers another, extremely petty nail in the Android Open Source Project’s coffin

The slow but steady march to the grave for the Android Open Source Project continues. Every few months Google hammers another big nail in the coffin of Android as an open source effort, and I've documented them all here on OSNews (nail, nail, nail, nail, nail),

https://www.osnews.com/story/145738/google-hammers-another-extremely-petty-nail-in-the-android-open-source-projects-coffin/

#Android

First version of Word for Windows ported to modern 64bit Windows ...

2026-08-10T13:18:18Z

First version of Word for Windows ported to modern 64bit Windows

Back in 2014, Microsoft released the source code to the first Windows version of Word, version 1.1a. Now, Justin Marshall has ported this code to modern versions of Windows, so you can run it as if it were any other modern application.

This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft W

https://www.osnews.com/story/145715/first-version-of-word-for-windows-ported-to-modern-64bit-windows/

#Office

“A big win for Android interoperability” Whenever the EU ...

2026-08-03T12:19:39Z

“A big win for Android interoperability”

Whenever the EU steps in to regulate the big technology companies, the response from news outlets and bloggers (often funded or outright owned by right-wing extremists) is to claim it's just a bunch of dumb , tech-illiterate bureaucrats telling the vastly more intelligent and superior technology companies what to do. Of course, this is just propaganda.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145665/a-big-win-for-android-interoperability/

#Android

NetBSD 11.0 released NetBSD, the operating system specifically ...

2026-08-01T21:14:53Z

NetBSD 11.0 released

NetBSD, the operating system specifically designed to run on anything from a supercomputer to a toothpick, just released version 11.0. There's a ton of changes and improvements here, such as a brand new port to RISC-V, which supports a number of the more popular RISC-V SoCs (sadly, not the one I have just yet). NetBSD 11.0 also adds initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform, a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145663/netbsd-11-0-released/

#NetBSD

Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos on your machine ...

2026-07-29T12:48:52Z

Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos on your machine

It's that time of the week again, I guess.

The year is 2026, and I’m still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu’s All apps list for an app I don’t remember installing. This time, it’s Microsoft again, and the product is OneDrive Photos, which appears to be yet another photo viewer and editor f

https://www.osnews.com/story/145628/windows-11-is-quietly-installing-onedrive-photos-on-your-machine/

#Windows

Windows NT got its name from one of Intel’s failed x86 ...

2026-07-27T23:38:01Z

Windows NT got its name from one of Intel’s failed x86 replacements

Dave Farquhar published an article today about Windows NT 3.1's place in the market when it was originally released, and while the article is interesting and a fun read, it does mention this:

[...] Microsoft took its nascent code that it intended to form the base of OS/2 3.0, renamed it Windows Ne

https://www.osnews.com/story/145617/windows-nt-got-its-name-from-one-of-intels-failed-x86-replacements/

#Windows

Mozilla gives Haiku permission to use the Firefox name Haiku has ...

2026-07-27T11:34:30Z

Mozilla gives Haiku permission to use the Firefox name

Haiku has a Firefox port, but due to Mozilla's trademark policies, it's actually called Iceweasel. After some back-and-forth with Mozilla, the browser maker has now given Haiku permission to officially use the Firefox name for the port.

But don’t worry, Iceweasel isn’t going anywhere. I plan to maintain both. The idea is to ke

https://www.osnews.com/story/145611/mozilla-gives-haiku-permission-to-use-the-firefox-name/

#Haiku

10 REM”_(C2SLFF4 That is the first line of the 80s ...

2026-07-27T11:18:18Z

10 REM”_(C2SLFF4

That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform.

It's a REMark statement, a comment in that particular language. 10 is the line number, if you're unfamiliar with languages that had such things.

But the interesting part was this "_(C2SLFF4 mess. A typo or garbage? No. It appears verbatim in the source code

https://www.osnews.com/story/145607/10-rem_c2slff4/

#GeneralDevelopment

FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the entire 150MB Linux ...

2026-07-23T20:33:29Z

FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the entire 150MB Linux Copilot binary

A rather unusual announcement was made late last night: the FreeBSD project has frozen their ports repository. For more than 48 hours now, no changes have been accepted or made to the tree, and here's why.

A 150MB binary file was recently committed to the ports tree and, as

https://www.osnews.com/story/145593/freebsd-ports-frozen-after-someone-commits-the-entire-150mb-linux-copilot-binary/

#FreeBSD

Regressive JPEGs One of the cool features of JPEG files is that ...

2026-07-20T21:46:35Z

Regressive JPEGs

One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off.
↫ maurycyz.com

Oh I know where this is going...

Doing this, I can get Chrome to render around 90 frames before giving up. Other browsers like Firefox have more patience, but a 90 s

https://www.osnews.com/story/145568/regressive-jpegs/

#MultimediaAV

OpenBSD tests WPA3 support The NLnet Foundation's NGI0 ...

2026-07-20T21:06:37Z

OpenBSD tests WPA3 support

The NLnet Foundation's NGI0 Commons Fund supported an effort to add WPA3 support to OpenBSD, and the work's payed off.

All drivers which support PMF can use WPA3, which are: iwm, iwx, and qwx. So far, I have tested this patch on iwx AX200 only. I will roll out this patch to more of my devices now. Help with testing is welcome.There are both userland and kernel changes involved.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145564/openbsd-tests-wpa3-support/

#OpenBSD

DOSBox ported to OpenVMS for Alpha Speaking of OpenVMS and Alpha ...

2026-07-19T21:08:33Z

DOSBox ported to OpenVMS for Alpha

Speaking of OpenVMS and Alpha - and we like speaking about OpenVMS and Alpha, don't we? - there's now a port of DOSBox that runs on the Alpha version venerable operating system. Astr0baby has published both binaries and source code for the port, as well as a lovely set of screenshots to show it off working.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145562/dosbox-ported-to-openvms-for-alpha/

#OSNews

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update ...

2026-07-19T20:47:14Z

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent

Well, this is new - but not at all unexpected considering the state of Windows and the wider technology industry. When you connect certain LG monitors to a Windows machine, Windows Update will pull in a bunch of adware promoting antivirus trash. Of course, all done without a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145560/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-user-consent/

#Windows

Asbestos is a tool, just like any other Linus Torvalds, on the ...

2026-07-16T20:51:32Z

Asbestos is a tool, just like any other

Linus Torvalds, on the Linux Kernel Mailing List:

Asbestos is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

[…]

The solution is to make sure asbestos tools help maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try

https://www.osnews.com/story/145530/asbestos-is-a-tool-just-like-any-other/

#ClownCar

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail After I mentioned ...

2026-07-15T22:11:57Z

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day, I watched the movie again. I must have seen it at least ten times now. This time, I researched every computer/software I spotted.
↫ Fabien Sanglard

We are all aware of the infamous "This is a UNIX system, I know this!" meme, but many more computers make their appearance in Jurassic

https://www.osnews.com/story/145526/jurassic-park-computers-in-excruciating-detail/

#Hardware

Twitter’s “AI” translate feature is deep into hardcore ...

2026-07-15T21:55:29Z

Twitter’s “AI” translate feature is deep into hardcore pornography

As a former translator with two rock-solid university degrees in the subject, there was never a universe in which I would not talk about Twitter's new autotranslation feature turning the tamest things into hardcore pornography.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experie

https://www.osnews.com/story/145523/twitters-ai-translate-feature-is-deep-into-hardcore-pornography/

#ClownCar

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2026-07-09T11:18:24Z

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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 ...

2026-07-08T22:28:16Z

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we've collectively made it out to be? Did my m

https://www.osnews.com/story/145459/you-paid-me-a-long-time-linux-user-to-use-windows-11-exclusively-for-a-month-heres-how-it-went/

#Windows

The state of accessibility in GNOME With July being Disability ...

2026-07-08T22:24:00Z

The state of accessibility in GNOME

With July being Disability Pride Month, GNOME's Sophie Herold published a blog post taking stock of where GNOME stands on this front, progress that's been made, as well as areas where the project comes short. One particular paragraph from her introduction really hits the nail on the head about accessibility discussions in tech circles:

The reality of tech communi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145481/the-state-of-accessibility-in-gnome/

#Gnome

Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of ...

2026-07-07T23:18:10Z

Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos "GeopJr" Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many applications tagged with "AI slop", a tag Flathub reviewers used to keep tra

https://www.osnews.com/story/145469/most-slopcode-projects-are-abandoned-and-deleted-within-months-of-release/

#ClownCar

Linux ported to the Atari Jaguar Only a few days ago we had Linux ...

2026-07-07T21:06:41Z

Linux ported to the Atari Jaguar

Only a few days ago we had Linux on the Mega Drive, and someone took that as a challenge, so now we have Linux on the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar has a very different architecture than the Mega Drive, but does happen to use a processor from the same 68000-family.

Interestingly enough, to this day, Linux has architecture code for the 68000-family of processors. 68040, 6803

https://www.osnews.com/story/145467/linux-ported-to-the-atari-jaguar/

#Linux

LineageOS and Android’s upcoming developer verification: what ...

2026-07-05T20:11:12Z

LineageOS and Android’s upcoming developer verification: what it is, and how it affects you

LineageOS, the de-Googled Android ROM that serves as the backbone for pretty much the entire custom Android ROM community, has published an article about what the Android developer verification changes mean for them. I really like the factual tone of their

https://www.osnews.com/story/145443/lineageos-and-androids-upcoming-developer-verification-what-it-is-and-how-it-affects-you/

#Android

ReactOS implements very first NT6 system call A fairly big moment ...

2026-07-03T21:39:02Z

ReactOS implements very first NT6 system call

A fairly big moment for the ReactOS project: it has just received its very first system call from NT6.

The system call that has been added is NtGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx, which is used for returning the processor number of the logical processor that a caller is running on. It’s unclear how long it will take ReactOS to become compatible wit

https://www.osnews.com/story/145428/reactos-implements-very-first-nt6-system-call/

#ReactOS

OSNews statement on slopcoded “operating systems” Recently, ...

2026-07-01T22:27:17Z

OSNews statement on slopcoded “operating systems”

Recently, there has been a surge in slopcoded new/hobby "operating systems". Such slopcoded projects - which, due to the nature of "AI" tools, effectively consist of stolen code - will not be featured on OSNews and submitting them is fruitless.

Other websites may choose to employ lower standards, as is their prerogative, but OSNews w

https://www.osnews.com/story/145407/osnews-statement-on-slopcoded-operating-systems/

#OSNews

European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple ...

2026-07-01T22:21:33Z

European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple

European governments are rolling out digital identity wallets, which are to be used by citizens to access services, and to verify their age online. As reported by Follow the Money and Android Authority, there is a serious problem with this: these wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple. These are known as Goog

https://www.osnews.com/story/145405/european-digital-id-wallets-are-a-gift-to-google-and-apple/

#Legal

Linux ported to Sega’s Mega Drive If you have a Sega Mega ...

2026-07-01T18:59:39Z

Linux ported to Sega’s Mega Drive

If you have a Sega Mega Drive, you obviously want to run Linux on it. That's something you can do now. You do need to have an EverDrive, but don't worry, the port in question contains a custom fork of Qemu for those of us that don't.

I don't know what else to say, other than I wonder why nobody did this sooner.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145401/linux-ported-to-segas-mega-drive/

#Linux

Haiku enables AVX512 support We're a little deep into June ...

2026-06-15T19:21:43Z

Haiku enables AVX512 support

We're a little deep into June already, but it's only now that Haiku published its monthly progress report for May. There's a bunch of fixes for drag-and-drop behaviour in Tracker, AVX512 support can now be enabled thanks to changes to the kernel’s FPU handling, some low-level changes were made for the Rust and Zig compilers, and further improvements were made to the boot process o

https://www.osnews.com/story/145306/haiku-enables-avx512-support/

#Haiku

Tribblix Milestone 40 for x86 released Tribblix, the Illumos ...

2026-06-15T19:10:10Z

Tribblix Milestone 40 for x86 released

Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has been updated with the release of Milestone 40.

This version has some major component updates. Perl in now 5.42 instead of 5.34, and the default Python is now 3.13. The GCC suite is now version 14.2.0, go is version 1.26, Xfce has been updated to version 4.18, nod

https://www.osnews.com/story/145304/tribblix-milestone-40-for-x86-released/

#Solaris

“Your EPUB is fine. Kobo disagrees. Blame Adobe.” An ...

2026-06-15T14:01:16Z

“Your EPUB is fine. Kobo disagrees. Blame Adobe.”

An infuriating story about something most of us don't really stop to think about: e-books and the rendering engines companies and software use to display them.

It’s the year 2026. Thanks to the horrendous [Adobe] RMSDK which Kobo decided to use as their backbone for all book rendering (probably for DRM reasons), a single li

https://www.osnews.com/story/145302/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/

#GeneralDevelopment

Running DOS on the Behringer DDX3216 with a DIY BIOS from scratch ...

2026-06-14T21:36:57Z

Running DOS on the Behringer DDX3216 with a DIY BIOS from scratch

In 1994 I got my first computer: an Intel i486 DX2-66 with 4 MB RAM and a 512MB harddisk. The software was IBMs OS/2 and Microsofts Windows 3.11. In the next four years I was upgrading this machine every few months with more RAM (up to 16MB), a CD-ROM-drive and a soundblaster card. So I learned upgradin

https://www.osnews.com/story/145297/running-dos-on-the-behringer-ddx3216-with-a-diy-bios-from-scratch/

#LegacyOSes

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, will be last release with Rosetta 2 ...

2026-06-11T14:14:01Z

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, will be last release with Rosetta 2

With the announcement of an upcoming new macOS release also come the usual changes in which Macs will still be supported. MacOS 27 Golden Gate is an important release in this regard, as it will be the first release of Apple's desktop operating system that will be entirely ARM-only, dropping support for all In

https://www.osnews.com/story/145279/macos-27-drops-intel-support-will-be-last-release-with-rosetta-2/

#macOS

Once again, Apple blatantly lies about the EU’s DMA Apple ...

2026-06-10T23:12:27Z

Once again, Apple blatantly lies about the EU’s DMA

Apple recently announced its next crack at integrating "AI" into its operating systems, this time opting to simply whitelabel Google's Gemini "AI" tools instead of developing its own LLM technology. Called "Siri AI", Apple also stated it's not coming to the EU, and the company stated that's because the EU's basic consumer protection le

https://www.osnews.com/story/145275/once-again-apple-blatantly-lies-about-the-eus-dma/

#Apple

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft ...

2026-06-10T22:46:35Z

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo h

https://www.osnews.com/story/145273/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/

#Internet

A raycasting first-person shooter written in COBOL On a related ...

2026-06-10T19:37:44Z

A raycasting first-person shooter written in COBOL

On a related note, what about a raycasting first-person shooter written in... COBOL?

Can you think of a better programming language than COBOL to implement an FPS from scratch? I know I can't, so buckle up and enjoy what can only be described as an out-of-body experience for COBOL enthusiasts as I set out to make a Wolfenstein3D-like

https://www.osnews.com/story/145271/a-raycasting-first-person-shooter-written-in-cobol/

#Games

Microsoft makes Windows printing easier with Windows Ready Print ...

2026-06-10T19:14:33Z

Microsoft makes Windows printing easier with Windows Ready Print

Microsoft has detailed that Windows 11 is going to switch away from dedicated printer drivers to its Windows Ready Print system. This should make it a lot easier and less cumbersome to get printers running on Windows 11.

At the core of Windows Ready Print is a transition away from legacy, third party dri

https://www.osnews.com/story/145266/microsoft-makes-windows-printing-easier-with-windows-ready-print/

#Windows

x86CSS: a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer x86CSS is a ...

2026-06-07T17:57:24Z

x86CSS: a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer

x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required.

What you're seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS.
↫ Lyra Rebane

Hand-written CSS, no JavaScript, and effectively no HTM

https://www.osnews.com/story/145224/x86css-a-working-css-only-x86-cpu-emulator-computer/

#GeneralDevelopment

When su replaced login for becoming another UNIX login I've ...

2026-06-05T12:57:08Z

When su replaced login for becoming another UNIX login

I've mentioned it before, but Chris Siebenmann is basically the Raymond Chen of the UNIX world, and today he's filling that role perfectly once again.

I recently read Simon Tatham's Nitpicking the shell history scene in Tron: Legacy, where one thing that surprised Tatham was the film using 'login -n root' to become root instea

https://www.osnews.com/story/145218/when-su-replaced-login-for-becoming-another-unix-login/

#Unix

Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue Andrew ...

2026-06-03T18:03:48Z

Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue

Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't handle the volumes anymore.

As this flood started to get mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

#GeneralDevelopment

WinUtils: shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95 WinUtils started ...

2026-06-03T14:52:27Z

WinUtils: shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95

WinUtils started in 1996-1997 as a way to build my programming chops. I was poking around the Windows 95 shell APIs, found the file operation functions, and thought it would be cool to have CLI tools that called them instead of doing raw file I/O. The payoff was practical: because the operations went through the shell, the same confirmation

https://www.osnews.com/story/145196/winutils-shell-powered-cli-tools-for-windows-95/

#Windows

Preparing for KDE Plasma’s last X11-supported release With KDE ...

2026-06-02T18:08:12Z

Preparing for KDE Plasma’s last X11-supported release

With KDE Plasma 6.7 almost ready for release, developers have moved on to working on 6.8, and with that release comes probably one of the biggest deprecations in KDE's history: as of today, the X11 session is gone from KDE. Of course, this change won't make it to people's computers until 6.8 actually releases, but as far the code go

https://www.osnews.com/story/145190/preparing-for-kde-plasmas-last-x11-supported-release/

#KDE

Happy pride month! Yes, let's all be gay and do crimes etc. ...

2026-06-01T18:45:03Z

Happy pride month! Yes, let's all be gay and do crimes etc. etc., but also remember that Stonewall was a riot and in many places around the world, more such riots are going to be needed.

Until every last person can freely be who they really are, we got work to do.

Remember when people said open video codecs would never win? The ...

2026-05-31T13:09:29Z

Remember when people said open video codecs would never win?

The Alliance for Open Media has published the first version of the AV2 specification.

AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video

https://www.osnews.com/story/145160/remember-when-people-said-open-video-codecs-would-never-win/

#MultimediaAV

Settlers of Catan, TUI edition A beautiful TUI might not be ...

2026-05-30T19:41:46Z

Settlers of Catan, TUI edition

A beautiful TUI might not be particularly accessible, and there's effectively zero consistency between how different TUI applications look, feel, and behave, but damn if an amazing TUI isn't a work of art. Case in point: El Poblador. This is a TUI version of Settles of Catan, written in Go.

That's it. That's the post.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145154/settlers-of-catan-tui-edition/

#Games

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” ...

2026-05-28T14:45:20Z

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It's no secret there's a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting "AI" on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/

#GeneralDevelopment

Gemini, gophers, and fingers: alternative internets beyond HTTPS ...

2026-05-27T22:58:51Z

Gemini, gophers, and fingers: alternative internets beyond HTTPS

But what I want to write about today are three protocols that have their own ecosystems, their own communities, and their own aesthetics. finger://, gopher://, and gemini://. Two predate the World Wide Web entirely, but one was created in 2019, the same year the first black hole photograph circled the planet.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145124/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

#Internet

On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers Anyone ...

2026-05-25T16:11:28Z

On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to varying extents, and a lot of this isn't for extra features, but just to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and libra

https://www.osnews.com/story/145083/on-c-extensions-portability-and-alternative-compilers/

#GeneralDevelopment

Flatpak will depend on systemd If you visit the Flatpak website ...

2026-05-24T15:05:31Z

Flatpak will depend on systemd

If you visit the Flatpak website today, it lists, as the very first advantage of the project: "Build for every distro: create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market." If you then move on to the list of supported distributions, you'll see the usual suspects, but also distributions like Void Linux, Guix, and Alpine. These last three all have one thing in co

https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

#Linux

“Long-term support” does not mean what you think it does You ...

2026-05-23T23:36:56Z

“Long-term support” does not mean what you think it does

You may think you know what "long-term support" means when picking a Linux distribution and version, but judging by the multitude of utterly wrong takes and deeply confused users I come across online, I'm starting to get the feeling that in fact, no, you don't know what it means. KDE's Nate Graham is seeing the same confusi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145069/long-term-support-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it-does/

#Linux

Gnutella: a protocol outliving the world that created it Now ...

2026-05-23T22:03:09Z

Gnutella: a protocol outliving the world that created it

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Gnutella is a file sharing protocol that many have forgotten and it has the story of a decentralized technology adopted by millions of casual users who did not care to learn what a peer-to-peer system was. Users showed up because the protocol solved real problems at scal

https://www.osnews.com/story/145066/gnutella-a-protocol-outliving-the-world-that-created-it/

#Internet

Twelve ways to be wrong about “AI”-assisted coding Suppose ...

2026-05-21T21:43:21Z

Twelve ways to be wrong about “AI”-assisted coding

Suppose your manager asks you next week to demonstrate that the AI coding tools your company signed up for are worth the subscription cost. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more productive? Each of those approaches is flawed in a different wa

https://www.osnews.com/story/145044/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong-about-ai-assisted-coding/

#InTheNews

Get your passwords out of BitWarden while you still can I was a ...

2026-05-20T23:21:37Z

Get your passwords out of BitWarden while you still can

I was a long-time Bitwarden user, until a year or so ago when I started migrating my passwords first to Firefox/LibreWolf, and recently from there to a KeePass database I can transfer and use with whatever password manager application is compatible with KeePass' file format. It seems I was accidentally on time, as it'

https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/

#PrivacySecurity

Google kills its search engine We can inter Google Search to the ...

2026-05-19T21:36:55Z

Google kills its search engine

We can inter Google Search to the Google Graveyard.

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of li

https://www.osnews.com/story/145004/google-kills-its-search-engine/

#Google

OpenBSD 7.9 released The world's best BSD (I'm kidding, I ...

2026-05-19T17:25:07Z

OpenBSD 7.9 released

The world's best BSD (I'm kidding, I love them all equally) has released version 7.9, now available through your update tools and on mirrors the world over. OpenBSD 7.9 brings a ton of changes, fixes, and improvements, such as delayed hibernation support on amd64. This will allow OpenBSD laptops to briefly wake up from sleep, to then immediately drop into hibernation. A small but incredibly wel

https://www.osnews.com/story/144996/openbsd-7-9-released/

#OpenBSD

We're running a big fundraiser for @nprofile…ewcz, in ...

2026-05-18T18:03:48Z

We're running a big fundraiser for nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqwyukzkrct3sdq7x9xh9ytzq4z93rmn7kd6h9h9h6xxdpf6ymuljq69ewcz (nprofile…ewcz), in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post! Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

We've also got a bunch of fun incentives!

More details:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

Donate:

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=2

Google’s new “AI” Health Coach started making shit up right ...

2026-05-15T20:53:25Z

Google’s new “AI” Health Coach started making shit up right away

Google recently launched something called Health Coach, an "AI" thing that's part of the company's new Fitbit products. Let's check in with how that's going.

Put simply, Google’s paid replacement for Fitbit Premium immediately began hallucinating, even admitting to having made up the data before aski

https://www.osnews.com/story/144959/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away/

#ClownCar

EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process ...

2026-05-13T19:52:12Z

EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive government data

The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments’ use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data, sources familiar with the talks told CNBC.
↫ Kai Nicol-Schwarz at CNBC

The fact that this is only just become a possible reality n

https://www.osnews.com/story/144943/eu-weighs-restricting-use-of-us-cloud-platforms-to-process-sensitive-government-data/

#Legal

GitHub is sinking Microsoft acquired GitHub and applied their ...

2026-05-11T20:32:37Z

GitHub is sinking

Microsoft acquired GitHub and applied their unique brand of enshittification. Amongst their achievements was the spawning of the Copilot circle of hell. Now they’re effectively DDoSing themselves with slop. I won’t dwell on what else went wrong. I don’t know and I don’t care. GitHub is impressively bad now. It’s embarrassing. Shameful.
↫ David Bushell

Luckily, there's really very little

https://www.osnews.com/story/144928/github-is-sinking/

#GeneralDevelopment

Debian embraces reproducible builds Big news from the Debian ...

2026-05-11T09:08:09Z

Debian embraces reproducible builds

Big news from the Debian release team: Debian is going for reproducible package builds.

Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we've decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration software to block migration of new packages that can't be reproduced or existing packages (in te

https://www.osnews.com/story/144925/debian-embraces-reproducible-builds/

#Debian

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over ...

2026-05-08T23:36:26Z

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users

The ways in which Google can lock you into their ecosystem are often obvious, but sometimes, they're incredibly sneaky and easily missed.

CAPTCHA tests are annoying, but at the same time, they can help protect websites from bots. While these tests are alre

https://www.osnews.com/story/144909/google-is-tying-recaptcha-to-google-play-services-screwing-over-de-googled-android-users/

#Android

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for ...

2026-05-05T22:03:15Z

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a terminal, it is inherently accessible. The logic assumes that because there are no graphics, no complex DOM, and no WebGL canvases, the content is just raw ASCII text that a screen reader can easily pa

https://www.osnews.com/story/144892/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility/

#GeneralDevelopment

How hard is it to open a file? Sebastian Wick has a great ...

2026-04-24T20:24:55Z

How hard is it to open a file?

Sebastian Wick has a great explanation of why opening files - programmatically - is a lot more complex and fraught with dangers than you might think it is.

It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:

very simple, just call the standard library function

extremely hard, don’t trust a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144825/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

#PrivacySecurity

AI as a fascist artifact In that reading „AI“ is a machine ...

2026-04-24T20:13:54Z

AI as a fascist artifact

In that reading „AI“ is a machine for the creation of epistemic injustice and the replacement of truth with what a tech elite wants it to be in order to control the population. This is a Fascist project that not so subtly aligns with Fascism’s totalitarian will to power and control as well as its reliance in replacing reasoning and debate with belief in power and the leader.
↫ Jür

https://www.osnews.com/story/144823/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

#Technofascism

Microsoft isn’t removing Copilot from Windows 11, it’s just ...

2026-04-14T21:28:27Z

Microsoft isn’t removing Copilot from Windows 11, it’s just renaming it

A few weeks ago, Microsoft made some concrete promises about fixing and improving Windows, and among them was removing useless "AI" integrations. Applications like Notepad, Snipping Tool, and others would see their "AI" features removed. Well, it turns out Microsoft employs a very fringe defin

https://www.osnews.com/story/144793/microsoft-isnt-removing-copilot-from-windows-11-its-just-renaming-it/

#Windows

Linux 7.0 released Version 7.0 of the Linux kernel has been ...

2026-04-13T12:19:24Z

Linux 7.0 released

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 lazy preemption by default in the CPU scheduler, support for time-slice extension, the nullfs filesystem, self-healing support for the XFS f

https://www.osnews.com/story/144785/linux-7-0-released/

#Linux

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason ...

2026-04-05T13:59:08Z

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason

If you're using Windows or macOS and have Adobe Creative Cloud installed, you may want to take a peek at your hosts file. It turns out Adobe adds a bunch of entries into the hosts file, for a very stupid reason.

I found that in my hosts file the other day too, and I investigated to find why they're doing

https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/

#ClownCar

How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars This is the first of a ...

2026-04-04T06:42:47Z

How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars

This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest customer, and the trust of the US government.
↫ Axel Rietschin

It won't take long into this series of articles before you start won

https://www.osnews.com/story/144729/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-dollars/

#Microsoft

The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, ...

2026-03-25T21:07:38Z

The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now

Several US states, the country of Brazil, and I'm sure other places in the world have enacted or are planning to enact laws that would place the burden of age verification of users on the shoulders of operating system makers. The legal landscape is quite fragmented at this point, and there's n

https://www.osnews.com/story/144653/the-reports-of-age-verification-in-linux-are-greatly-exaggerated-for-now/

#Legal

The OpenBSD init system and boot process In recent weeks, systemd ...

2026-03-23T14:44:12Z

The OpenBSD init system and boot process

In recent weeks, systemd has both embraced slopcoding and laid the groundwork for age verification built right into systemd-based Linux distributions, there's definitely been an uptick in people talking about alternative init systems. If you want to gain understanding in a rather classic init system, OpenBSD's is a great place to start.

OpenBSD has a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144646/the-openbsd-init-system-and-boot-process/

#OpenBSD

Haiku inches closer to next beta release And when a Redox monthly ...

2026-03-06T21:31:53Z

Haiku inches closer to next beta release

And when a Redox monthly progress report is here, Haiku's monthly report is never far behind (or vice versa, depending on the month). Haiku's February was definitely a busy month, but there's no major tentpole changes or new features, highlighting just how close Haiku is to a new regular beta release. The OpenBSD drivers have been synchronised wit upstream

https://www.osnews.com/story/144556/haiku-inches-closer-to-next-beta-release/

#Haiku

DOS memory management The memory management in DOS is simple, but ...

2026-03-05T19:19:39Z

DOS memory management

The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention.
↫ Michal Necasek at the OS/2 Museum

A must-read for people writing software for earlier DOS versions.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144545/dos-memory-management/

#RetroComputing

Never bet against x86 Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive ...

2026-03-03T23:38:33Z

Never bet against x86

Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive into Arm's latest core design, and I have thoughts.

Arm now has a core with enough performance to take on not only laptop, but also desktop use cases. They’ve also shown it’s possible to deliver that performance at a modest 4 GHz clock speed. Arm achieved that by executing well on the fundamentals throughout the core pipeline. X925’s branch pre

https://www.osnews.com/story/144527/never-bet-against-x86/

#Hardware

Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name ...

2026-03-02T20:17:47Z

Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”

Microsoft is pushing "AI" hard in Windows, Office, and in their other products, and it's earned them a cute new nickname: Microslop. It turns out the company really doesn't like it when you use this nickname, however, and its official Copilot Discord server - yes, there is an official one - has gone into a co

https://www.osnews.com/story/144518/microsoft-really-doesnt-want-you-to-use-the-name-microslop/

#Microsoft

US lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system ...

2026-02-27T22:19:23Z

US lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level

Encryption backdoors, social media bans for children, creepy age verification for applications - what will they think of next? The latest brilliant idea by US lawmakers sure is a hell of a doozy: legally mandated age verification in every single operating system.

Colorado's SB26-051, introduced

https://www.osnews.com/story/144501/us-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level/

#ClownCar

Jails for NetBSD FreeBSD has its jails technology, and it seems ...

2026-02-27T21:59:30Z

Jails for NetBSD

FreeBSD has its jails technology, and it seems NetBSD might be getting something similar soon.

Jails for NetBSD aims to bring lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation to NetBSD.

[...]

The system is intended to remain fully NetBSD-native. Isolation and policy enforcement are integrated into the kernel’s security framework rather than implemented in a separate runtime layer.

It does not aim to

https://www.osnews.com/story/144499/jails-for-netbsd/

#NetBSD

“Linuxulator on FreeBSD feels like magic” You may not be ...

2026-02-26T22:35:11Z

“Linuxulator on FreeBSD feels like magic”

You may not be aware that FreeBSD has a pretty robust set of tools to run Linux binaries, unmodified.

The result? A fast, smooth, fully-featured remote development experience on FreeBSD running Linux binaries transparently via the Linuxulator.

It genuinely feels like magic.

More importantly, it’s a testament to how stable the Linux ABI itself

https://www.osnews.com/story/144492/linuxulator-on-freebsd-feels-like-magic/

#FreeBSD

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a ...

2026-02-09T13:44:31Z

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

Cameron Kaiser comes in with another amazing article, this time diving into a unique video titler from Canada, released in 1985.

The Super Micro Script was one of several such machines this company made over its lifetime, a stylish self-contained box capable of emitting a 32x16 sma

https://www.osnews.com/story/144364/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script-video-titler-is-almost-a-home-computer/

#Hardware

Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech’s ...

2026-02-05T21:52:42Z

Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech’s “top priority”

I nominate this for the "Most Expected News Of The Decade" award.

Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikT

https://www.osnews.com/story/144340/unsealed-court-documents-show-teen-addiction-was-big-techs-top-priority/

#InTheNews

Rust in the NetBSD kernel seems unlikely Rust is everywhere, and ...

2026-02-03T21:47:18Z

Rust in the NetBSD kernel seems unlikely

Rust is everywhere, and it's no surprise it's also made its way into the lowest levels of certain operating systems and kernels, so it shouldn't be surprising that various operating system developers have to field questions and inquiries about Rust. NetBSD developer Benny Siegert wrote a blog post about this very subject, and in it, details why it's unlike

https://www.osnews.com/story/144326/rust-in-the-netbsd-kernel-seems-unlikely/

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