A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
I’ve barely scratched the surface, but there’s enough here for me to seriously consider a switch to it as my primary Linux distro for testing and servers. I love that htop(1) and lsof(1) only shows a...
View ArticleOSNews needs your help to stay alive
As some of you will know, I recently started working on OSNews as my full-time job, and that means I sometimes need to be annoying and remind you all that I need your help in keeping the website...
View ArticleMicrosoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
Before PC users can enjoy everything Windows 11 has on tap, they must first enter an e-mail address that’s linked to a Microsoft account. If you don’t have one, you’ll be asked to create one before...
View ArticleQuick out-of-the-box BSD support for the Topton GM1
I bought a Topton GM1 Industrial Mini PC for my HomeLab. It is aimed at running Slackware Linux but I wanted to have a quick look at how well BSD OSes support it out-of-the-box. ↫ Joel Carnat That’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft implements drastic changes to Recall after criticism
It turns out that the storm of criticism Microsoft’s recently unveiled Recall feature has actually pushed Microsoft to change its mind and make some very significant changes to the feature. Today,...
View ArticleUS agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI
The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into whether Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are snuffing out competition in artificial intelligence technology. The...
View ArticleInitial Fuchsia support upstreamed to Mesa 3D
We haven’t been hearing much out of the Fuchsia team anymore after said team was hit hard by the Google layoffs, but we’ve got some news so my fancy Fuchsia database category doesn’t go entirely to...
View ArticleAdobe terms clarified: will never own your work, or use it for AI training
Adobe Creative Cloud users opened their apps yesterday to find that they were forced to agree to new terms, which included some frightening-sounding language. It seemed to suggest Adobe was claiming...
View ArticleWhat is PID 0?
The very short version: Unix PIDs do start at 0! PID 0 just isn’t shown to userspace through traditional APIs. PID 0 starts the kernel, then retires to a quiet life of helping a bit with process...
View ArticleReverse-engineering MenuetOS 64: primary boot loader
Now that we have the MenuetOS 64 disk image file (M6414490.IMG), it is time to analyze! We will analyze the image file both statically and dynamically. Static analysis is reading and analyzing code...
View ArticleVoid Linux on ZFS
Last night, I ran through the ZFSBootMenu documentation guide for Void and followed it both on a VM and then on an external SATA HDD plugged through a USB case, taking some notes and getting a general...
View ArticleNetBSD 10 with disk encryption on UEFI, and NetBSD 10 on the Pinebook Pro
NetBSD 10 was released recently, so a lot of people are experimenting with it and writing down their thoughts. I’ve got two of those for you today, to help you in case you, too, want to install NetBSD...
View ArticleTuxedo showcases prototype Linux laptop with Snapdragon X Elite
I’ve long been waiting for a powerful ARM laptop that can run Linux comfortably, and it seems that with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite SoC, that’s finally going to happen. We talked earlier about...
View ArticleApple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote has come to a close — and the company had a whole lot to share. We got our first look at the AI features coming to Apple’s devices and some major...
View ArticleUnder pressure from Russian censors, Mozilla removes anti-censorship extensions
A few days ago, I was pointed to a post on the Mozilla forums, in which developers of Firefox extensions designed to circumvent Russian censorship were surprised to find that their extensions were...
View ArticleMicrosoft pulls release preview build of Windows 11 24H2 after Recall...
Microsoft recently announced some big changes to the Recall feature in Windows, and now it’s pulled the Release Preview version which contained Recall entirely. It’s likely not a coincidence that...
View ArticleOpenBSD extreme privacy setup
This is an attempt to turn OpenBSD into a Whonix or Tails alternative, although if you really need that level of privacy, use a system from this list and not the present guide. It is easy to spot...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds: extensible scheduler “sched_ext” in Linux 6.11
The extensible scheduler “sched_ext” code has proven quite versatile for opening up better Linux gaming performance, more quickly prototyping new scheduler changes, Ubuntu/Canonical has been...
View ArticleArm, Qualcomm legal battle seen disrupting AI-powered PC wave
The new Windows on ARM Copilot+ PC thing, running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Pro chips, isn’t even out the door yet, and we’re already dealing with legal proceedings. But the main...
View ArticleChrome OS switching to the Android Linux kernel and related Android subsystems
Surprisingly quietly, in the middle of Apple’s WWDC, Google’s ChromeOS team has made a rather massive announcement that seems to be staying a bit under the radar. Google is announcing today that it is...
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