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Google is releasing Chrome OS Flex today, a new version of Chrome OS that’s designed for businesses and schools to install and run on old PCs and Macs. From a report: Google first started testing Chrome OS Flex earlier this year in an early access prev… Continue reading Google’s Chrome OS Flex is Now Available for Old PCs and Macs
We’re a couple of months out from Apple officially rolling out the next major versions of its various operating systems. However, you can try out iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, macOS Ventura and tvOS 16 right now. Apple has released a public beta, a few… Continue reading Apple’s iOS 16, macOS Ventura and watchOS 9 Public Betas Are Ready To Download
RISC OS, the operating system of the original Arm computer, the Acorn Archimedes, is still very much alive — and doing relatively well for its age. The Register reports: In June 1987, Acorn launched the Archimedes A305 and A310, starting at $982 and r… Continue reading RISC OS: 35-Year-Old Original ARM OS Is Alive and Well
Ever wondered what it would take to roll your own OS? [Sebastian]’s Snowdrop OS might just provide you with some insight into that process, and maybe even some inspiration. [Sebastian] …read more Continue reading Homebrew an OS From Scratch? Snowdrop Shows How It’s Done
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from an opinion piece via The Register, written by longtime technology reporter and Linux enthusiast Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Recently, The Register’s Liam Proven wrote tongue in cheek about the most annoying des… Continue reading ‘I Love the Linux Desktop, But That Doesn’t Mean I Don’t See Its Problems All Too Well’
Older iPads with the Apple A7- and A8-based chips may soon be able to run Linux. “Developer Konrad Dybcio and a Linux enthusiast going by “quaack723” have collaborated to get Linux kernel version 5.18 booting on an old iPad Air 2, a major feat for a de… Continue reading Older iPads May Soon Be Able To Run Linux
Mike Bouma writes: Version 1.7 of AROS One for x86 has just been released and it’s a distro of the “AROS Research Operating System,” originally “Amiga Research Operating System.” It’s a standalone, free and open-source multi-media centric operating sys… Continue reading AROS One x86 v1.7 and MorphOS 3.17 PPC Released
FreeBSD 13.1 has been released today. Some of the new features include UEFI boot improvements for AMD64, a wide variety of hardware driver improvements, and support for freebsd-update to allow creating automated snapshots of the boot environment to try… Continue reading FreeBSD 13.1 Released
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since its launch, the Raspberry Pi OS (and most operating systems based on it) has shipped with a default “pi” user account, making it simpler to boot up a Pi and start working without needing to h… Continue reading Raspberry Pi OS Ditches Longtime User Account For Security Reasons
The Fedora 37 development team is considering dropping support for non-UEFI BIOS. Linuxiac reports: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, or UEFI, is a modern method of handling the boot process. UEFI is similar to Legacy; however, the boot data i… Continue reading Fedora Plans To Drop Support For Legacy BIOS Systems