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From a report: According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in December 2023. Last month was a record too and a clear trend over time, as going back a cou… Continue reading Linux Hits Nearly 4% Desktop User Share on Statcounter
Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel has improved its boot speed by a factor of 100 or more… and although it’s aimed at a micro-VM, the gains should benefit everyone. From a report: MicroVMs are a hot area of technology R&D in the las… Continue reading FreeBSD Can Now Boot in 25 Milliseconds
There are some projects that initially don’t seem to make sense, but actually turn out to have valid use cases. ChimeraOS appears to be one of those. The idea is …read more Continue reading Install ChimeraOS and Never Leave The Sofa
Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the Linux kernel, but warned this release may not go entirely smoothly. From a report: Torvalds’s headline assessment of rc1 is “none of it looks hugely unusual.” “The biggest … Continue reading Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn’t Make Linux 6.5
Members of Pixelbar woke up to shocking news on Wednesday morning this week as they learned that a fire had destroyed the building housing their Rotterdam hackerspace. Pictures of the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 2, 2023
jeditobe writes: ReactOS is an open-source operating system that aims to replicate Microsoft Windows, and can already run many Windows applications without modification. ReactOS published a new (infrequent) newsletter to outline recent work. It reveals… Continue reading The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life
Apple has announced a new operating system for its Vision Pro headset. Called visionOS, the operating system has been designed from the ground up for spatial computing and will have its own App Store where people can download Vision Pro apps and compat… Continue reading Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset
Linux computer vendor System76 shared some news in a recent blog post. “We prefer to disable the Intel Management Engine wherever possible to reduce the amount of closed firmware running on System76 hardware. We’ve resolved a coreboot bug that allows t… Continue reading System76’s Open Firmware ‘Re-Disables’ Intel’s Management Engine
At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced Windows 11 will soon be able to run Win32 apps in isolation mode. XDA Developers reports: Starting [today], Microsoft is launching a preview of Win32 apps in isolation for Windows 11 customers… Continue reading Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation
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