postmarketOS v25.06 released with systemd
This is it, the one that adds systemd to postmarketOS! We have talked about the decision at length on this blog, make sure to read the initial announcement if this is the first time you are hearing...
View ArticleThe X Window System didn’t immediately have X terminals
For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X’s network transparency so that only the X server had to run on...
View ArticleAsterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a “framekernel architecture”. The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux...
View ArticleIf you want to keep using KDE and GNOME, you’re going to have to move to Wayland
With the transition from X11 to Wayland in full swing, from popular distributions removing X11 sessions altogether and the two major desktop environments planning for the removal of X11 support as...
View ArticleIceWM 3.8.0 released
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor...
View ArticleMicrosoft grants stay of execution for Windows 10 users: use OneDrive, and...
For a while now I’ve been wondering if Microsoft would blink when it comes to Windows 10’s rapidly approaching end of support date. Only a few weeks ago, Microsoft at the very least twitched by...
View ArticlePNG gets its first specification update in 20 years
Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress stalled for over two decades. Did you know the U.S. Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, and the...
View ArticleMicrosoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel
It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding...
View ArticleSnow, a new classic Macintosh emulator
The world isn’t short of classic Macintosh emulators, but one more certainly cannot hurt. Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to...
View ArticleWindows gets new “blue” screen of death and automated boot recovery
The blue screen of death has been such a core part of Windows that’s it’s become part of humanity’s collective consciousness. They’re not nearly as common anymore as they used to be back in the...
View Article“I want a good parallel computer”
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those...
View ArticleMicrosoft to remove all but the latest versions of drivers from Windows Update
This blog post is intended to notify all Windows Hardware program partners that Microsoft has taken a strategic initiative to clean up legacy drivers published on Windows Update to reduce security and...
View ArticleWayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland
With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future....
View ArticleDonkey Kong Country 2 and open bus
Apparently, Donkey Kong Country 2 has runs into a bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES, where one of the barrels that you’re supposed to be able to precisely control the spinning direction of ends up...
View ArticleThe new troll diet
We need a new framework for how to defend against “trolls”. The feeding metaphor ran its course many years ago. It is done and will not be coming back. New online risks demand that we adapt and become...
View ArticleServers and thin clients in every home is the future they stole from us
I’ve used thin clients at home for quite a while – both for their intended use (remotely accessing a desktop of another system); and in the sense of “modern thin clients are x86 boxes that are wildly...
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