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Microsoft, which has unveiled a new version of Windows for the first time in six years, said it will integrate its Teams chat and videoconferencing software directly into the operating system. From a report: Teams has seen a huge surge in users during … Continue reading Microsoft Will Bundle Its Rival To Slack Into Windows 11
AmiMoJo shares a report from Phoronix: The Linux x86/x86_64 kernel code already had logic in place for reserving portions of the first 1MB of RAM to avoid the BIOS or kernel potentially clobbering that space among other reasons while now Linux 5.13 is … Continue reading Linux X86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM
Two years into its ban from the US Government and, in turn, access to the Play Store on its Android-powered devices, Huawei is unveiling HarmonyOS. The platform is an alternative to Android that powers TVs, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. 9to5G… Continue reading Huawei’s HarmonyOS Arrives With iPad-Inspired Tablet UI, Apparent Android Base
Two years into its ban from the US Government and, in turn, access to the Play Store on its Android-powered devices, Huawei is unveiling HarmonyOS. The platform is an alternative to Android that powers TVs, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. 9to5G… Continue reading Huawei’s HarmonyOS Arrives With iPad-Inspired Tablet UI, Apparent Android Base
Big under-the-hood changes are coming to Google’s original Nest Hub, even if most users won’t ever be aware of what’s happening. From a report: Starting today, the open-source Fuchsia OS will start rolling out to first-gen Nest Hub displays, according … Continue reading Google’s Mysterious Fuchsia OS Makes its Public Debut
An anonymous reader shares a report: One month ago the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel when it was revealed the university researchers were trying to intentionally submit bugs into the kernel via new patches as … Continue reading Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes Problematic University of Minnesota Patches
Today, Google and Samsung announced that they are merging Wear OS and Tizen in an effort to better compete against Apple’s watchOS. “The resulting platform is currently being referred to simply as ‘Wear,’ though that might not be the final name,” notes… Continue reading Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen
Long-time Slashdot reader xiando quotes the backstory from LinuxReviews.org:
CentOS used to be the go-to alternative for those who wanted to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without having to pay RedHat to use it. It was a almost 1:1 clone until Re… Continue reading AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS
FastCompany has a feature story on Chrome OS, which has turned 10. The story talks about a new feature of Chrome OS: A new version of Chrome OS rolling out starting today will introduce a long-under-development Phone Hub feature that’ll let you see and… Continue reading Chrome OS Did Lots of Growing Up in Its First Decade — and There’s More To Come
Long-time Slashdot reader sproketboy shared a link to SvarDOS, “an open-source project that is meant to integrate the best out of the currently available DOS tools, drivers and games.” From their site:
DOS development has been abandoned by commercial … Continue reading The SvarDOS Community Builds an Open Source DOS Distribution