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Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeBSD 13.2
As a recent emigre from the Ubuntu Linux distribution to Manjaro, I’ve had the chance to survey the field as I chose a new distro, and I realised that there’s …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Slackware 15
Is MINIX dead? OSnews is sounding its death-knell, citing evidence from the operating system’s git log that its last updates happened as long ago as 2018. Given that the last …read more Continue reading Is MINIX Dead? And Does It Matter?
Irix was the operating system developed by Silicon Graphics from 1988 to 1998. The OS supported the company’s high-end workstations and served in many serious roles. The company cut off …read more Continue reading Can Hobbyists Bring SGI’s IRIX OS Back To Life?
While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software …read more Continue reading An Entire RISC-V Operating System in 2000 Lines
An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment
The last couple years have seen an incredible flourishing of the cyberdeck scene, and probably for about as many reasons as there are individual ’deck designs. Some people get really …read more Continue reading Computers for Fun
[Esperantanaso] has long been involved in producing homebrew 8-bit computers. His various builds could all achieve different things, but he grew frustrated that applications written for one could not be …read more Continue reading WheatSystem is a Homebrew 8-Bit OS
Enterprises won’t get the first major Windows 11 update on managed PCs unless they choose to deploy it. Learn about Windows 11 improvements, including security features, to help you decide whether to update.
The post Windows 11 22H2: Enterprise feature… Continue reading Windows 11 22H2: Enterprise features you need to know
Until recently, most video game systems didn’t need their own operating systems in order to play games. Especially in the cartridge era — the games themselves simply ran directly on …read more Continue reading The NES Gets its Own OS