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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
An anonymous reader shares an opinion piece: Protest is an important element of free speech that should be protected. Openness and inclusivity are cornerstones of the culture of open source, and the tools of open source communities are designed for glo… Continue reading ‘Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source’
joshuark writes: FreeDOS has put out release 1.3, the latest release in 6-years. Some of the improvements since the 1.2 release, include: new FreeCOM 0.85a, new Kernel 2043 and an 8086 version with FAT32 support, floppy edition now uses compression…l… Continue reading FreeDOS Puts Out New Release
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Now that Windows 11’s first major post-release update has been issued, Microsoft has started testing a huge collection of new features, UI changes, and redesigned apps in the latest Windows Insider… Continue reading Windows 11 Pro Now Requires Microsoft Account and Internet During Setup
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Setting up a Raspberry Pi board has always required a second computer, which is used to flash your operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi can boot. But the Pi Foundation is working on … Continue reading Raspberry Pi Bootloader Enables OS Installs With No Separate PC Required
slack_justyb writes: “Quietly making its v1.0 debut yesterday was system76-scheduler as a Rust-written daemon aiming to improve Linux desktop responsiveness and catering to their Pop!_OS distribution,” reports Phoronix.
The daemon will work with the … Continue reading System76-Scheduler Is a New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness
An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: Last week, we reported that MediaTek is planning to build a chipset for Windows on ARM. As it turns out, the Windows on ARM chipset space could be even hotter than that, because there’s a reason … Continue reading Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM