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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world: ...

2026-08-24T15:29:13Z

Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world: TRON

Ah, Japan's TRON project - every few years someone discovers it anew and it bubbles back up the surface, and deservedly so, as it's an incredibly interesting operating system project that, like so many others, deserved a better fate.

There's a version of computing history where the desktop OS tha

https://www.osnews.com/story/145872/japan-tried-to-build-an-operating-system-for-the-entire-world-tron/

#LegacyOSes

Delphi 13 Community Edition released Delphi is still very much a ...

2026-08-12T18:14:48Z

Delphi 13 Community Edition released

Delphi is still very much a thing, and still very much in active development. The current stewards of Delphi, Embarcadero, released the Delphi 13 Community Edition today.

Delphi Community Edition is a full-featured, free edition of Delphi for building native applications with the Delphi language. It includes a professional IDE, visual designers, in

https://www.osnews.com/story/145742/delphi-13-community-edition-released/

#GeneralDevelopment

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

NetBSD brings its Englightenment port Enlightenment desktop is a ...

2026-08-11T11:52:58Z

NetBSD brings its Englightenment port

Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop to pkgsrc and commit upstream portability fixes when necessary to ease future versions updates for NetBSD.
↫ Dimitris Go

https://www.osnews.com/story/145725/netbsd-brings-its-englightenment-port/

#NetBSD

Cookies are not needed for fingerprinting and tracking Cookies ...

2026-08-10T21:11:34Z

Cookies are not needed for fingerprinting and tracking

Cookies are ancient technology, and in no way necessary of even particularly desirable to track you. Modern fingerprinting doesn't need them at all.

A live demonstration of everything a website learns about you before you click anything with no cookies. It reads you during the connection and in the first two seconds of Jav

https://www.osnews.com/story/145718/cookies-are-not-needed-for-fingerprinting-and-tracking/

#Internet

Thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, EU citizens are getting ...

2026-08-08T19:50:14Z

Thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, EU citizens are getting copy and paste between iOS and Windows

The European Union's Digital Markets Act keeps delivering for EU citizens.

Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs.

Microsoft asked for the feature usin

https://www.osnews.com/story/145708/thanks-to-the-eus-digital-markets-act-eu-citizens-are-getting-copy-and-paste-between-ios-and-windows/

#Apple

Developing a windowed OS for a homebrew Am29000 computer Once ...

2026-08-06T21:28:38Z

Developing a windowed OS for a homebrew Am29000 computer

Once upon a time in the mysterious lands of Mexico, starting in Fall 1996 and through Spring 1997, I coded a windowed operating system in 32-bit machine code, fit it into a floppy, and jumped in excitement as it boot up.

Of course, I knew it was a great thing because you couldn't boot Windows 3.1 or GEM from a floppy disk

https://www.osnews.com/story/145696/developing-a-windowed-os-for-a-homebrew-am29000-computer/

#OSNews

Corporate players in Amiga community sign various agreements to ...

2026-08-04T21:52:19Z

Corporate players in Amiga community sign various agreements to clear up some of the decades-old licensing and ownership mess

Few things in technology are more complex, convoluted, and riddled with literally decades of drama than the Amiga community. Luckily for all of us, a significant step forward has been m

https://www.osnews.com/story/145687/corporate-players-in-amiga-community-sign-various-agreements-to-clear-up-some-of-the-decades-old-licensing-and-ownership-mess/

#AmigaAROS

But can your calculator run Linux? Don't have enough ...

2026-08-04T21:30:57Z

But can your calculator run Linux?

Don't have enough computing devices on your wish list yet? Do you have a need for a graphing calculator? No? What if it can run Linux and even Windows 10? I see I've got your attention.

The HP Prime is a graphing calculator on the market since 2013, with a hardware revision in 2018 (the G2 model). It has a touch screen and as far as I can find, most people are ha

https://www.osnews.com/story/145685/but-can-your-calculator-run-linux/

#Hardware

Wireguard comes to 9front Want to switch to 9front, especially ...

2026-08-04T21:07:28Z

Wireguard comes to 9front

Want to switch to 9front, especially with the new release having just been made available, but really need Wireguard? Fret not! Wireguard is now available on 9front, experimentally.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145683/wireguard-comes-to-9front/

#OSNews

9front “THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN” released The best ...

2026-08-03T15:56:39Z

9front “THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN” released

The best operating system in the world, 9front, released its latest version, "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN". As I'm sure you know, 9front is a fork of plan9, and one that's actually consistently maintained and developed. It brings an improved affinewarp API for scaling and zooming, a new Synaptics driver, and a new driver for UPSs. There's also

https://www.osnews.com/story/145669/9front-this-was-supposed-to-be-fun-released/

#OSNews

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

CallMeMaybe: runtime reflection library built on C++26 static ...

2026-08-01T21:05:39Z

CallMeMaybe: runtime reflection library built on C++26 static reflection

I have a policy to effectively never link to YouTube videos. I'll gladly make an exception for this one.

Reflection is one of the most powerful concepts in Computer Science. Unfortunately, not every programming language is blessed enough to have it.

In the 1980s, one company, S

https://www.osnews.com/story/145661/callmemaybe-runtime-reflection-library-built-on-c26-static-reflection/

#GeneralDevelopment

Develop cross-platform CLI and GUI tools with Tcl/Tk Tcl, or the ...

2026-07-31T22:44:15Z

Develop cross-platform CLI and GUI tools with Tcl/Tk

Tcl, or the "Tool Command Language", created and released by John Ousterhout in 1990, deserves a place among the greatest products of the human mind. Especially when combined with its better known graphical user interface Toolkit — Tk. In 1997 Ousterhout was awarded the ACM Software System Award for Tcl/Tk, an award give

https://www.osnews.com/story/145658/develop-cross-platform-cli-and-gui-tools-with-tcl-tk/

#GeneralDevelopment

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

The Fedora 45 sausage factory This is a walkthrough of how Fedora ...

2026-07-27T19:33:12Z

The Fedora 45 sausage factory

This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
↫ Simon de Vlieger

Linux distributions - good ones like Fedora, at least - are really complex operations, with a ton of chec

https://www.osnews.com/story/145615/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/

#FedoraCore

Comanche: Maximum Overkill from 1992 does weird things on Intel ...

2026-07-27T19:23:36Z

Comanche: Maximum Overkill from 1992 does weird things on Intel processors

Let's do another article about weird code in video games.

The original 1992 Comanche release is extremely picky about memory managers. The game refuses to work with EMM emulators and crashes when EMM386 is active. The game may also hang or reboot the system when HIMEM.SYS is not loaded (

https://www.osnews.com/story/145613/comanche-maximum-overkill-from-1992-does-weird-things-on-intel-processors/

#Games

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 no 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

Java deprecates support for macOS x86 Apple has transitioned its ...

2026-07-27T11:26:09Z

Java deprecates support for macOS x86

Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27. Maintaining the port is a significant burden.
↫ JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

The port won't yet be removed, but will be in a future release. Consi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145609/java-deprecates-support-for-macos-x86/

#Java

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

The Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more The ...

2026-07-24T22:45:03Z

The Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more

The hottest and most promising operating system kernel in development, the GNU Hurd, has published another summary of its most recent quarter of development. Hurd has experimental support for 9pfs now, a work-in--progress port of OpenNTPD, the NTP daemon from OpenBSD, a port of Neovim, and a few more ports here and ther

https://www.osnews.com/story/145603/the-hurd-gets-9pfs-openntpd-dynamic-dev-entries-and-more/

#OSNews

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2026-07-23T16:19:34Z

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Amiga 1000: ten years ahead of its time We all know the original ...

2026-07-23T11:33:42Z

Amiga 1000: ten years ahead of its time

We all know the original Amiga was far ahead of its time, and the Amiga really doesn't need more retrospectives and glazing. However, that doesn't mean we don't want more Amiga retrospectives and glazing.

I’m not sure I even saw an Amiga in person until 1987, but I knew just from reading about it that I wanted one. I wasn’t able to make it happen until

https://www.osnews.com/story/145591/amiga-1000-ten-years-ahead-of-its-time/

#AmigaAROS

Rewriting the Futhark type checker This post is about the ...

2026-07-23T08:42:45Z

Rewriting the Futhark type checker

This post is about the evolution of Futhark’s type checker, motivated by a large refactoring I am about to merge. It is probably mostly of interest to other language designers, and contains some lessons I wish I had known when we first got started - although I am not particularly well-read in the type checking literature, so it’s possible all of this is ol

https://www.osnews.com/story/145588/rewriting-the-futhark-type-checker/

#GeneralDevelopment

COSMIC DE’s first seven months Honestly, it feels like only ...

2026-07-22T18:56:37Z

COSMIC DE’s first seven months

Honestly, it feels like only yesterday that System76, Linux OEM and the company behind pop!_OS, announced it was going to develop its own desktop environment, COSMIC. We're about seven months into the more general availability of COSMIC, and the company has put up a nice overview of the various improvements that have already made their way into the code since th

https://www.osnews.com/story/145585/cosmic-des-first-seven-months/

#DesktopEnvironments

Codeberg’s programmer user base overwhelmingly votes to ban ...

2026-07-22T18:41:17Z

Codeberg’s programmer user base overwhelmingly votes to ban slopcoded projects form its platform

What happens when programmers get to vote on a complete ban on slopcoded software on their code platform? Members of Codeberg were asked to vote on a proposal to completely ban slopcoded projects from Codeberg, and in what should not

https://www.osnews.com/story/145583/codebergs-programmer-user-base-overwhelmingly-votes-to-ban-slopcoded-projects-form-its-platform/

#GeneralDevelopment

Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026 If you want ...

2026-07-22T12:36:25Z

Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026

If you want to develop an application for AmigaOS 3.x but don't want to deal with real hardware, virtualisation and emulation are your friends.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to set up an Amiga development environment. Since figuring things out wasn't straightforward, I wrote down instructions for Linux about how to compile the

https://www.osnews.com/story/145581/building-an-amigaos-development-environment-in-2026/

#AmigaAROS

Volkswagen blocks custom Android ROM users from VW application ...

2026-07-22T12:05:33Z

Volkswagen blocks custom Android ROM users from VW application

Drivers of cars from the Volkswagen Group using alternative Android versions like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, or /e/OS have been unable to use the VW app for some time. This means they can neither check their vehicle's remaining range from their phone, schedule service appointments, nor control charging and air condi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145579/volkswagen-blocks-custom-android-rom-users-from-vw-application/

#Android

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

Follow the money, especially in open source Linus Torvalds, the ...

2026-07-18T05:27:50Z

Follow the money, especially in open source

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and git, is employed by the Linux Foundation. This Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to, as the name obviously implies, the promotion of Linux. The primary use of the funds it collects is to "help fund the infrastructure and fellows, including Linus Torvalds, who help develop the Linux ker

https://www.osnews.com/story/145548/follow-the-money-especially-in-open-source/

#Linux

OSNews relies entirely on your support to stay alive. We have no ...

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

AmigaOS 2: the greatest upgrade Five years after releasing the ...

2026-06-18T21:40:24Z

AmigaOS 2: the greatest upgrade

Five years after releasing the Amiga 1000, Commodore was about to launch the Amiga 3000, their first real high-end Amiga. With a 68030 processor, on-board SCSI and a slightly updated graphics chipset, all in a sleek desktop case, the Amiga was truly ready for the era of professional 32-bit computing. But Moore's law wasn't the only thing thad had been pressuring Commodore

https://www.osnews.com/story/145337/amigaos-2-the-greatest-upgrade/

#AmigaAROS

“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

Introducing brand new OSNews merch with the new logo! A new logo ...

2026-06-09T20:40:13Z

Introducing brand new OSNews merch with the new logo!

A new logo means new merch! I'm launching brand new merch today, all featuring the brand new OSNews logo. We've got the classic T-shirt with the new OSNews logo, in sandy white and terrain grey. They're made from sustainably-grown and processed cotton, come in a variety of sizes, and ship worldwide.

The crowdpleaser is

https://www.osnews.com/story/145244/introducing-brand-new-osnews-merch-with-the-new-logo/

#OSNews

GentleOS is a love letter to classic operating systems with a ...

2026-06-08T21:26:38Z

GentleOS is a love letter to classic operating systems with a lovely retro GUI

In today's climate, I needed this: GentleOS, an operating system targeting both 186 (GentleOS/32) and even processors as old as the 80186 (GentleOS/16), with a lovely retro graphical user interface, usable on bare metal, and, of course, open source.

Its goal is to provide a sim

https://www.osnews.com/story/145238/gentleos-is-a-love-letter-to-classic-operating-systems-with-a-lovely-retro-gui/

#OSNews

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

Setting up KDE and Wayland on FreeBSD 15.x Since X11 has moved to ...

2026-05-21T19:56:53Z

Setting up KDE and Wayland on FreeBSD 15.x

Since X11 has moved to legacy status, it's only a matter of time before the BSDs are going to have to make the move to being Wayland-first as well. This applies particularly to FreeBSD, which has been focusing on improving its suitability for desktop and laptops lately. The good news is that Wayland has been available on FreeBSD for a while now, and s

https://www.osnews.com/story/145038/setting-up-kde-and-wayland-on-freebsd-15-x/

#FreeBSD

GNOME is good, actually While I'm normally a KDE user, I do ...

2026-05-03T20:15:12Z

GNOME is good, actually

While I'm normally a KDE user, I do keep close tabs on various other desktop environments, and install and set them up every now and then to see how they're fairing, what improvements they've made, and ultimately, if my preference for KDE is still warranted. This usually means setting up a nice OpenBSD installation for Xfce, Fedora for GNOME, and less often others for some of the more niche

https://www.osnews.com/story/144862/gnome-is-good-actually/

#Gnome

Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah ported to Nintendo Wii Since its launch in ...

2026-04-08T21:10:33Z

Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah ported to Nintendo Wii

Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, 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 Mac OS X, 10.0 Cheetah, to the Nintendo Wii. If you’re not an operating systems expert or low-level engineer, you’re in good co

https://www.osnews.com/story/144756/mac-os-x-10-0-cheetah-ported-to-nintendo-wii/

#macOS

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on ...

2026-03-30T21:14:43Z

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub

Why do so many people keep falling for the same trick over and over again?

With an over $400 billion gap between the money invested in AI data centers and the actual revenue these products generate, Silicon Valley slowly returned to the tested and trusted playbook: advertising.

Now, ads are sta

https://www.osnews.com/story/144703/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github/

#ClownCar

Java Sun SPOTs (Small Programable Object Technology) These were ...

2026-03-23T14:52:23Z

Java Sun SPOTs (Small Programable Object Technology)

These were Sun microcontrollers that run Squawk Java ME directly on metal with gc and all the bells and whistles, created by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

The feature mesh networking and tcp/ip and multitasking. Even the drivers are java just like Java OS.

They run a command and control server by default and there’s graphical

https://www.osnews.com/story/144648/java-sun-spots-small-programable-object-technology/

#OracleAndSUN

Google to introduce overly onerous hoops to prevent ...

2026-03-19T23:51:43Z

Google to introduce overly onerous hoops to prevent “sideloading”

When Google said they were going to require verification from every single Android developer that would end the ability to install applications from outside of the Play Store (commonly wrongfully referred to as "sideloading"), it caused quite a backlash. The company then backtracked a little bit, and sai

https://www.osnews.com/story/144635/google-to-introduce-overly-onerous-hoops-to-prevent-sideloading/

#Android

Java 26 released Java 26 delivers thousands of improvements that ...

2026-03-17T21:32:12Z

Java 26 released

Java 26 delivers thousands of improvements that boost developer productivity, simplify the language, and help developers integrate AI and cryptography functionality into their applications. To help developers further streamline and enhance their development initiatives, Oracle is also announcing the new Java Verified Portfolio, which provides developers with a curated set of Oracle-supported tools, framew

https://www.osnews.com/story/144611/java-26-released/

#Java

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, ...

2026-03-09T21:18:22Z

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

Every modifier key starts simple and humble, with a specific task and a nice matching name.

This never lasts. The tasks become larger and more convoluted, and the labels grow obsolete. Shift no longer shifts a carriage, Control doesn’t send contr

https://www.osnews.com/story/144564/i-dont-know-what-is-apples-endgame-for-the-fn-globe-key-and-im-not-sure-apple-knows-either/

#Apple

Windows 11 26H1 will be Snapdragon-specific As if keeping track ...

2026-02-19T21:27:52Z

Windows 11 26H1 will be Snapdragon-specific

As if keeping track of whatever counts as a release schedule for Windows wasn't complicated enough - don't lie, you don't know when that feature they announced is actually being released either - Microsoft is making everything even more complicated. Soon, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 11 26H1, but you most likely won't be getting it because it

https://www.osnews.com/story/144461/windows-11-26h1-will-be-snapdragon-specific/

#Windows

KDE Plasma 6.6 released KDE Plasma 6.6 has been released, and ...

2026-02-18T00:07:10Z

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

KDE Plasma 6.6 has been released, and brings with a whole slew of new features. You can save any combination of themes as a global theme, and there's a new feature allowing you to increase or decrease the contrast of frames and outlines. If your device has a camera, you can now scan Wi-F settings from QR codes, which is quite nice if you spend a lot of time on the road.

There's a new colou

https://www.osnews.com/story/144424/kde-plasma-6-6-released/

#KDE

SvarDOS: an open-source DOS distribution SvarDOS is an ...

2026-02-17T23:30:38Z

SvarDOS: an open-source DOS distribution

SvarDOS is an open-source project that is meant to integrate the best out of the currently available DOS tools, drivers and games. DOS development has been abandoned by commercial players a long time ago, mostly during early nineties. Nowadays it survives solely through the efforts of hobbyists and retro-enthusiasts, but this is a highly sparse and

https://www.osnews.com/story/144420/svardos-an-open-source-dos-distribution/

#RetroComputing

I don’t want using my computer to be like a game of Russian ...

2026-01-28T20:14:09Z

I don’t want using my computer to be like a game of Russian roulette

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 complain. There's the documentation page diving, the forums, the reddit threads. And, mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/144290/i-dont-want-using-my-computer-to-be-like-a-game-of-russian-roulette/

#Linux

The late arrival of 16-bit CP/M The way the histories of CP/M, ...

2026-01-05T23:38:18Z

The late arrival of 16-bit CP/M

The way the histories of CP/M, DOS, Microsoft, and the 8086 intertwine would be worthy of an amazing film if it wasn't for the fact it would be very hard to make it interesting screen material.

Few OEMs were asking for an 8086 version of CP/M. One that did was SCP - the same company that helped Microsoft design SoftCard. They needed a disk operating system for t

https://www.osnews.com/story/144128/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cp-m/

#RetroComputing

It’s hard to justify macOS Tahoe’s icons We've talked ...

2026-01-05T23:17:10Z

It’s hard to justify macOS Tahoe’s icons

We've talked about just how bad Apple's regular icons have become, but what about the various icons Apple now plasters all over its menus, buttons, and dialogs? They've gotten so, so much worse.

In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu item. There are just not enough good metaphors to do something like that.

But

https://www.osnews.com/story/144126/its-hard-to-justify-macos-tahoes-icons/

#macOS

CheriBSD: FreeBSD for CHERI-enabled platforms CheriBSD is a ...

2026-01-05T22:53:51Z

CheriBSD: FreeBSD for CHERI-enabled platforms

CheriBSD is a Capability Enabled, Unix-like Operating System that extends FreeBSD to take advantage of Capability Hardware on Arm’s Morello and CHERI-RISC-V platforms. CheriBSD implements memory protection and software compartmentalization features, and is developed by SRI International and the University of Cambridge.
↫ CheriBSD website

This

https://www.osnews.com/story/144123/cheribsd-freebsd-for-cheri-enabled-platforms/

#FreeBSD

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Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 ...

2026-01-05T12:43:54Z

Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

Up until now, it's always remained possible to activate Windows offline, by calling a phone number, going through a lengthy phase of entering digits on your phone dialpad, and carefully listening to and entering a string of numbers on the device you're trying to activate. For a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144113/microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-11-10-without-internet/

#Windows

Desktop Classic System wants to bring some classic Mac OS to MATE ...

2026-01-04T11:12:43Z

Desktop Classic System wants to bring some classic Mac OS to MATE and Debian

Desktop Classic System is an operating system based on Debian and a customized version of the MATE Desktop Environment that hearkens back to, but is not a direct copy of, the classic Mac OS. DCS seeks to provide and sometimes even improve upon the conceptual simplicity offered by the ol

https://www.osnews.com/story/144111/desktop-classic-system-wants-to-bring-some-classic-mac-os-to-mate-and-debian/

#Linux

KDE developer onboarding is good now KDE developer Herz published ...

2026-01-04T10:47:28Z

KDE developer onboarding is good now

KDE developer Herz published a detailed look at the immense amount of work they've done cleaning up the developer onboarding documentation for KDE.

All that just to say that I’m finally content with the state of beginner onboarding docs in our KDE Developer Platform. That is to say, all the beginner docs fixes I wanted to add to Develop are either already there o

https://www.osnews.com/story/144109/kde-developer-onboarding-is-good-now/

#KDE

The scariest boot loader code It shouldn't be surprising that ...

2026-01-04T00:57:27Z

The scariest boot loader code

It shouldn't be surprising that the HP-UX FAQ eventually grew an entry for "how can I make a 712 run headless". It was possible, and to do it you had to change the firmware "console" path. The 712 firmware would not allow you to do this, to keep you locked to a keyboard and frame buffer console, but some of the HP-UX standalone tools could be used to change this without the fi

https://www.osnews.com/story/144107/the-scariest-boot-loader-code/

#OpenBSD

IceWM 4.0.0 brings alt+tab improvements IceWM, the venerable X11 ...

2026-01-03T16:04:48Z

IceWM 4.0.0 brings alt+tab improvements

IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released a new version, bumping the version number to 4.0.0. This release brings a big update to the alt+tab feature.

The Alt+Tab window switcher can now handle large numbers of application windows in both horizontal and in vertical mode. Type the first letter of an application class name in Alt+Ta

https://www.osnews.com/story/144105/icewm-4-0-0-brings-alttab-improvements/

#DesktopEnvironments

Haiku gets accelerated NVIDIA graphics driver The new year ...

2026-01-01T16:40:09Z

Haiku gets accelerated NVIDIA graphics driver

The new year isn't even a day old, and Haiku developer X512 dropped something major in Haiku users' laps: the first alpha version of an accelerated NVIDIA graphics drivers for Haiku. Supporting at least NVIDIA Turing and Ampere GPUs, it's very much in alpha state, but does allow for proper GPU acceleration, with the code surely making its way to H

https://www.osnews.com/story/144097/haiku-gets-accelerated-nvidia-graphics-driver/

#Haiku

HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad It's 31 December ...

2025-12-31T22:09:40Z

HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad

It's 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: HP-UX. Today is the day HPE puts the final nail in the coffin of their long-running UNIX operating system, marking the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX vari

https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

#Unix

loss32: let’s build a Win32/Linux I'd just like to ...

2025-12-30T13:39:16Z

loss32: let’s build a Win32/Linux

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, loss32 Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system made useful by WINE, the ReactOS userland, and other vital system components comprising a full OS

https://www.osnews.com/story/144091/loss32-lets-build-a-win32-linux/

#Linux

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi Nina Kalinina has been on an ...

2025-12-30T13:26:45Z

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

Nina Kalinina has been on an absolute roll lately, diving deep into VisiOn, uncovering Bellcore MGR, installing Linux on a PC-98 machine, and much more. This time, she's ported Windows 2 to run on a machine it was never supposed to run on.

I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing ab

https://www.osnews.com/story/144089/windows-2-for-the-apricot-pc-xi/

#Windows

What an unprocessed photo looks like I knew digital cameras and ...

2025-12-30T13:05:50Z

What an unprocessed photo looks like

I knew digital cameras and phones had to do a lot of processing and other types of magic to output anything human eyes can work with, but I had no idea just how much. This is wild.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144087/what-an-unprocessed-photo-looks-like/

#MultimediaAV

Apple’s terrible UI design is not the fault of just one fall ...

2025-12-28T11:58:52Z

Apple’s terrible UI design is not the fault of just one fall guy

There's been endless talk online about just how bad Apple's graphical user interface design has become over the years, culminating in the introduction of Liquid Glass across all of the company's operating systems this year. Despite all the gnawing of teeth and scathing think pieces before the final rollout, i

https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/

#Apple

The HTML elements time forgot We're all familiar with things ...

2025-12-28T11:23:01Z

The HTML elements time forgot

We're all familiar with things like marquee and blink, relics of HTML of the past, but there are far more weird and obscure HTML tags you may not be aware of. Luckily, Declan Chidlow at HTMLHell details a few of them so we can all scratch shake our heads in disbelief.

But there are far more obscure tags which are perhaps less visually dazzling but equally or even more int

https://www.osnews.com/story/144079/the-html-elements-time-forgot/

#Internet

That's clearly a bug. No idea what's going on.

2025-12-27T14:15:04Z

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Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out ...

2025-12-27T12:57:40Z

Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

If you’re building a package manager and git-as-index seems appealing, look at Cargo, Homebrew, CocoaPods, vcpkg, Go. They all had to build workarounds as they grew, causing pain for users and maintainers. The pull request workflow is nice. The version history is nice. You will hit the same walls

https://www.osnews.com/story/144077/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database-it-never-works-out/

#GeneralDevelopment

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2025-12-27T10:20:25Z

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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on ...

2025-12-27T10:12:54Z

QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland

Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.

The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin

https://www.osnews.com/story/144075/qnx-releases-new-desktop-focused-image-qnx-8-0-with-xfce-on-wayland/

#QNX

Phoenix: a modern X server written in Zig We've got more ...

2025-12-25T14:52:36Z

Phoenix: a modern X server written in Zig

We've got more X11-related news this day, the day of Xmas.

Phoenix is a new X server, written from scratch in Zig (not a fork of Xorg server). This X server is designed to be a modern alternative to the Xorg server.
↫ Phoenix' readme page

Phoenix will only support a modern subset of the X11 protocol, focusing on making sure modern applications fro

https://www.osnews.com/story/144068/phoenix-a-modern-x-server-written-in-zig/

#Wayland

Wayback 0.3 released Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run ...

2025-12-25T10:42:43Z

Wayback 0.3 released

Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, released a new version just before the Christmas. Wayback 0.3 overhauls its custom command line option parser to allow for more X.org options to be supported, and its manual pages have been cleaned up. Other fixes merely include fixing some small typos and similar small changes. Wayback is now also

https://www.osnews.com/story/144066/wayback-0-3-released/

#Wayland

GateMate Personal Computer, inspired by IBM PC Can you use a ...

2025-12-25T10:31:00Z

GateMate Personal Computer, inspired by IBM PC

Can you use a cheap FPGA board as a base for a new computer inspired by the original IBM PC? Well, yes, of course, so that's what Yuri Zaporozhets has set out to do just that. Based on the GateMateA1-EVB, the project's got some of the basics worked out already - video output, keyboard support, etc. - and work is underway on a DOS-like operatin

https://www.osnews.com/story/144059/gatemate-personal-computer-inspired-by-ibm-pc/

#Hardware

Elementary OS 8.1 released Elementary OS, the user-friendly Linux ...

2025-12-22T19:09:32Z

Elementary OS 8.1 released

Elementary OS, the user-friendly Linux distribution with its own unique desktop environment and applications, just released elementary OS 8.1. Its minor version number belies just how big of a punch this update packs, so don't be fooled here.

We released elementary OS 8 last November with a new Secure Session—powered by Wayland—that ensures applications respect your privacy and co

https://www.osnews.com/story/144056/elementary-os-8-1-released/

#Linux

Amifuse: native Amiga filesystems on macOS and Linux with FUSE ...

2025-12-22T14:47:19Z

Amifuse: native Amiga filesystems on macOS and Linux with FUSE

Mount Amiga filesystem images on macOS/Linux using native AmigaOS filesystem handlers via FUSE.

amifuse runs actual Amiga filesystem drivers (like PFS3) through m68k CPU emulation, allowing you to read Amiga hard disk images without relying on reverse-engineered implementations.
↫ Amifuse GitHub page

Abso

https://www.osnews.com/story/144054/amifuse-native-amiga-filesystems-on-macos-and-linux-with-fuse/

#AmigaAROS

UNIX v4 tape successfully recovered Almost two months ago, a tape ...

2025-12-22T14:21:57Z

UNIX v4 tape successfully recovered

Almost two months ago, a tape containing UNIX v4 was found. It was sent off to the Computer History Museum where bitsavers.org would handle the further handling of the tape, and this process has now completed. You can download the contents of the tape from Archive.org - which is sadly down at the moment - while squoze.net has a readme with instructions on how to actua

https://www.osnews.com/story/144052/unix-v4-tape-successfully-recovered/

#Unix

FreeBSD made major gains in laptop support this year If you’ve ...

2025-12-21T22:29:35Z

FreeBSD made major gains in laptop support this year

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematically addressing the gaps that have held FreeBSD back on modern laptop hardware.

The project started in 2024 Q4 and covers areas i

https://www.osnews.com/story/144050/freebsd-made-major-gains-in-laptop-support-this-year/

#FreeBSD

On the immortality of Microsoft Word If Excel rules the world, ...

2025-12-18T23:28:45Z

On the immortality of Microsoft Word

If Excel rules the world, Word rules the legal profession. Jordan Bryan published a great article explaining why this is the case, and why this is unlikely to change any time soon, no matter how many people from the technology world think they can change this reality.

Microsoft Word can never be replaced. OpenAI could build superintelligence surpassing human c

https://www.osnews.com/story/144046/on-the-immortality-of-microsoft-word/

#Office

A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet In 1979, VisiCalc was ...

2025-12-18T22:01:11Z

A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet

In 1979, VisiCalc was released for the Apple II, and to this day, many consider it the very first spreadsheet program. Considering just how important spreadsheets have become since then - Excel rules the world - the first spreadsheet program is definitely an interesting topic to dive into. It turns out that while VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet progra

https://www.osnews.com/story/144044/a-look-back-lanpar-the-first-spreadsheet/

#Office

The original Mozilla “dinosaur” logo artwork Jamie Zawinski, ...

2025-12-18T21:37:23Z

The original Mozilla “dinosaur” logo artwork

Jamie Zawinski, one of the founders of Netscape and later Mozilla, has dug up the original versions of the iconic Mozilla dinosaur logos, and posted them online in all their glory. While he strongly believes Mozilla owned these logos outright, and that they were released as open source in 1998 or 1999, he can't technically prove that.

I

https://www.osnews.com/story/144042/the-original-mozilla-dinosaur-logo-artwork/

#MozillaGecko

Computers should not act like human beings Mark Weiser has ...

2025-12-17T21:36:09Z

Computers should not act like human beings

Mark Weiser has written a really interesting article about just how desirable new computing environments, like VR, "AI" agents, and so on, really are. On the top of "AI" agents, he writes:

Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously ap

https://www.osnews.com/story/144033/computers-should-not-act-like-human-beings/

#OSNews

Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser” In ...

2025-12-16T23:15:10Z

Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser”

In recent years, things have not been going well for Mozilla. Firefox's market share is a rounding error, and financially, the company is effectively entirely dependent on free money from Google for making it the default search engine in Firefox. Mozilla's tried to stem the bleeding with deeply unpopular efforts like foc

https://www.osnews.com/story/144027/mozillas-new-ceo-firefox-will-become-an-ai-browser/

#MozillaGecko

Closures as Win32 window procedures Back in 2017 I wrote about a ...

2025-12-16T15:27:40Z

Closures as Win32 window procedures

Back in 2017 I wrote about a technique for creating closures in C using JIT-compiled wrapper. It’s neat, though rarely necessary in real programs, so I don’t think about it often. I applied it to qsort, which sadly accepts no context pointer. More practical would be working around insufficient custom allocator interfaces, to create allocation functions a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144025/closures-as-win32-window-procedures/

#GeneralDevelopment

QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo ...

2025-12-16T15:21:44Z

QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo e-readers

Any computing device will inevitably get a custom operating system - whether based on an existing operating system or something entirely custom - and of course, Kobo e-readers are no exception. QuillOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution specifically developed for the unique challenges of e-readers

https://www.osnews.com/story/144023/quillos-alpine-based-linux-distribution-optimised-for-kobo-e-readers/

#Mobile

Haiku gets new Go port There's a new Haiku monthly activity ...

2025-12-12T23:51:16Z

Haiku gets new Go port

There's a new Haiku monthly activity report, and this one's a true doozy. Let's start with the biggest news.

The most notable development in November was the introduction of a port of the Go programming language, version 1.18. This is still a few years old (from 2022; the current is Go 1.25), but it’s far newer than the previous Go port to Haiku (1.4 from 2014); and unlike the previous po

https://www.osnews.com/story/144019/haiku-gets-new-go-port/

#Haiku

Rethinking sudo with object capabilities Alpine Linux maintainer ...

2025-12-12T23:35:19Z

Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill has published a very interesting blog post about the shortcomings of both sudo and doas, and offers a potential different way of achieving the same goals as those tools.

Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely on ambient authority: policy is centralized and errors in the policy con

https://www.osnews.com/story/144017/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities/

#PrivacySecurity

One too many words on AT&T’s $2000 Korn shell and other ...

2025-12-12T22:27:29Z

One too many words on AT&T’s $2000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics

Unix has been enormously successful over the past 55 years.

It started out as a small experiment to develop a time-sharing system (i.e., a multi-user operating system) at AT&T Bell Labs. The goal was to take a few core principles to their logical conclusion. The OS bundled many small tools that were

https://www.osnews.com/story/144015/one-too-many-words-on-atts-2000-korn-shell-and-other-usenet-topics/

#Unix

COSMIC Desktop reaches first stable release System76, creator of ...

2025-12-11T20:33:30Z

COSMIC Desktop reaches first stable release

System76, creator of Pop!_OS and prominent Linux OEM, has just announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS - normally not something I particularly care about, but in this case, it comes with the first stable release of COSMIC Desktop. COSMIC is a brand new desktop environment by System76, written in Rust, and after quite some time in deve

https://www.osnews.com/story/144011/cosmic-desktop-reaches-first-stable-release/

#DesktopEnvironments

Windows 3.1’s infamous “Hot Dog Stand” colour scheme was ...

2025-12-11T20:17:42Z

Windows 3.1’s infamous “Hot Dog Stand” colour scheme was not a joke

I'm sure most of us here are aware of the bright red-and-yellow colour scheme called "Hot Dog Stand", included in Windows 3.1. While it's not the only truly garish colour scheme included in Windows 3.1, its name probably did a lot to make it stand out from the others. There's been a ton of speculati

https://www.osnews.com/story/144009/windows-3-1s-infamous-hot-dog-stand-colour-scheme-was-not-a-joke/

#Windows

Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really ...

2025-12-11T19:53:03Z

Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea

IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:

Generative AI systems are cha

https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-seems-like-a-really-bad-idea/

#FedoraCore

FreeBSD debates sunsetting power64/power64le support I have some ...

2025-12-10T21:41:50Z

FreeBSD debates sunsetting power64/power64le support

I have some potentially devastating news for POWER users interested in using FreeBSD, uncovered late last month by none other than Cameron Kaiser.

FreeBSD is considering retiring powerpc64 prior to branching 16, which would make FreeBSD 15 the last stable version to support the architecture. (32-bit PowerPC is already dropped a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144002/freebsd-debates-sunsetting-power64-power64le-support/

#FreeBSD

US government switches to Times New Roman because Calibri is ...

2025-12-10T20:43:32Z

US government switches to Times New Roman because Calibri is “woke”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity.

While mostly framed as a matter of cl

https://www.osnews.com/story/143999/us-government-switches-to-times-new-roman-because-calibri-is-woke/

#ClownCar

What do Linux kernel version numbers mean? If you're old ...

2025-12-09T20:43:43Z

What do Linux kernel version numbers mean?

If you're old enough, you no doubt remember that up until the 2.6.0 release of the Linux kernel, an odd number after the first version number indicated a pre-release, development version of the kernel. Even though this scheme was abandoned with the 2.6.0 release in 2003 and since then every single release has been a stable release, it seems the ghosts of

https://www.osnews.com/story/143992/what-do-linux-kernel-version-numbers-mean/

#Linux

Microsoft will allow you to remove “AI” actions from Windows ...

2025-12-08T12:08:20Z

Microsoft will allow you to remove “AI” actions from Windows 11’s context menus

With the current, rapidly deteriorating state of the Windows operating system, you have to take the small wins you can get: Microsoft is now offering the option of removing "AI" actions from Windows 11's context menus. buried deep in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220

https://www.osnews.com/story/143987/microsoft-will-allow-you-to-remove-ai-actions-from-windows-11s-context-menus/

#Windows

The anatomy of a macOS application When Mac OS X was designed, it ...

2025-12-08T11:52:57Z

The anatomy of a macOS application

When Mac OS X was designed, it switched to the bundle structure inherited from NeXTSTEP. Instead of this multitude of resources, apps consisted of a hierarchy of directories containing files of executable code, and those with what had in Mac OS been supporting resources. Those app bundles came to adopt a standard form, shown below.
↫ Howard Oakley

A short, but none

https://www.osnews.com/story/143985/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-application/

#macOS

Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better ...

2025-12-08T11:43:58Z

Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better than ever

The end of an era, perhaps.

Applets are officially, completely removed from Java 26, coming in March of 2026. This brings to an official end the era of applets, which began in 1996. However, for years it has been possible to build modern, interactive web pages in Java without needing applets

https://www.osnews.com/story/143983/applets-are-officially-gone-but-java-in-the-browser-is-better-than-ever/

#Java

OSNews needs your donations to survive OSNews is funded entirely ...

2025-12-07T20:50:07Z

OSNews needs your donations to survive

OSNews is funded entirely by you, our readers. There are no ads on OSNews, we are not part of a massive corporate publishing conglomerate like virtually every other technology news website, there are no wealthy (corporate) benefactors - it's just whatever funds you, our readers, send our way. As such, I sometimes need to remind everyone about this, and Decembe

https://www.osnews.com/story/143977/osnews-needs-your-donations-to-survive/

#OSNews

Porting rePalm to Pixter devices Some of you may be aware of ...

2025-12-07T20:24:08Z

Porting rePalm to Pixter devices

Some of you may be aware of rePalm, a project by Dmitry Grinberg to port the PalmOS to various devices it was never supposed to run on. We covered rePalm back in 2019 and again in 2023. His latest project involved porting PalmOS to a set of digital toys that were never intended to run PalmOS in any way.

Fisher-Price (owned by Mattel) produced some toys in the early 20

https://www.osnews.com/story/143975/porting-repalm-to-pixter-devices/

#Mobile

Haiku highlights interesting stalled commits you might want to ...

2025-12-07T16:03:13Z

Haiku highlights interesting stalled commits you might want to adopt

Now this is a great initiative by the Haiku team: highlight a number of stale commits that've been without interaction for years, explain why they've stalled, and then hope renewed interest might grow (part 1 and part 2).

Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our

https://www.osnews.com/story/143973/haiku-highlights-interesting-stalled-commits-you-might-want-to-adopt/

#Haiku