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In yet another shift away from its traditional hardware business, Huawei has sold its x86 server unit to a state-owned Chinese firm. Light Reading reports: China company registration data confirms that the sale to Henan Information Industry Investment … Continue reading Huawei Offloads x86 Business As It Chases Self-Sufficiency→

Phoronix: Now that Windows 11 has been out as stable and the initial round of updates coming out, I’ve been running fresh Windows 11 vs. Linux benchmarks for seeing how Microsoft’s latest operating system release compares to the fresh batch of Linux di… Continue reading Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11→

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Oscar winning Dune screenwriter Eric Roth banged out the screenplay using the MS-DOS program Movie Master. Roth writes everything using the 30-year-old software. “I work on an old computer program t… Continue reading The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS→

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Oculus may have officially discontinued its low-end Oculus Go headset last year, but the company has one more “official” update to help future-proof the hardware. On Thursday, Oculus released an un… Continue reading John Carmack Pushes Out Unlocked OS For Defunct Oculus Go Headset→

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, sent a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup soliciting feature suggestions for a free Unix-like operating system he was developing as a hobby. Thirty years l… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Linux: From a Bedroom Project To Billions of Devices in 30 Years→

RoccamOccam writes: After many months of development, the memfd_secret() system call was finally merged for the upcoming 5.14 release of Linux. There have been many changes during this feature’s development, but its core purpose remains the same: allow… Continue reading New Linux Syscall Enables Secret Memory Even the Kernel Can’t Read→

More owners of the first-generation Nest Hub are receiving the update to Google’s Fuchsia operating system as it expands beyond the Preview program. 9to5Google reports: Back in May, Google formally released Fuchsia, its effort to develop a “not Linux” … Continue reading Google’s Fuchsia OS Is Rolling Out Widely To 1st-Gen Nest Hubs→

As of its latest beta release, Valve’s SteamVR software can add floating desktop windows inside VR games, letting you keep an eye on other apps without leaving VR. The Verge reports: It’s a helpful addition, allowing players to keep an eye on anything … Continue reading SteamVR Beta Lets You Arrange Desktop Windows Inside Your Virtual World→

How To Geek: To run Windows 3.1 on your iPad, you’ll need to buy an app called iDOS 2 that’s available in the App Store. Currently, it costs $4.99, which seems like a bargain considering what it can do. iDOS has a spotty history on the App Store. Way b… Continue reading How To Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad→