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Apple hasn’t always had refined user experiences in their operating systems. In the distant past of the ’90s they were still kind of clunky computers that were far from the …read more Continue reading Porting DOOM to a Forgotten Apple OS
Ever hear of Lotus 123? It is an old spreadsheet program that dominated the early PC market, taking the crown from incumbent Visicalc. [Tavis Ormandy] has managed to get the …read more Continue reading Lotus 123 for Linux is Like a Digital Treasure Hunt
I’m applying for a Linux developer job. One of the questions is: "What linux distro uses version 4.X (specifically, version 4.4x)?"
“Everyone’s favorite security focused operating system, OpenBSD 7.1 has been released for a number of architectures,” writes long-time Slashdot reader ArchieBunker, “including Apple M1 chips.”
Phoronix calls it “the newest version of this popular, s… Continue reading OpenBSD 7.1 Released with Support for Apple M1, Improvements for ARM64 and RISC-V
There was a time when “real” engineering workstations ran Linux. Apollo and Sun were big names and Sun’s version was Solaris. Solaris has been an iffy proposition since Oracle acquired …read more Continue reading Solaris might be Free If You Want It
Oracle has begun making a new version of Solaris 11.4 available for free/open-source developers and for non-production personal use. Phoronix reports: Solaris 11.4 CBE is the “Common Build Environment” and intended for open-source developers and strict… Continue reading Solaris 11.4 Free For Open-Source Devs, Non-Production Use
C and C++ are powerful tools, but not everyone has the patience (or enough semicolons) to use them all the time. For a lot of us, the preference is for …read more Continue reading Run UNIX On Microcontrollers With PDP-11 Emulator
While Apple’s modern operating systems may seem like they exist independently of the rest of the computing world, they are actually close cousins of modern versions of Linux. The primary …read more Continue reading Change Desktop Environments on… iOS?
OpenBSD has had much fewer "code execution" vulnerabilities and even fewer exploits than FreeBSD, according to https://cvedetails.com :
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/163/Openbsd-Openbsd.html?vendor_id=97
https://www.cvedeta… Continue reading Would FreeBSD and OpenBSD have similar known-past-vulnerability stats if they were configured similarly?
Ransomware attacks have reached ‘stratospheric’ levels in Q2 2021, now accounting for 69% of all attacks involving malware. That is among the most disturbing finding in the latest report from Positive Technologies. The research also reveals that the vo… Continue reading Ransomware attack levels soaring, now accounting for 69% of all attacks involving malware