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RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan (theregister.com)

3 days ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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For BASIC's 60th, three modern BASICs release new versions (theregister.com)

3 days ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Building products with NetBSD – thin clients (PDF, 2009) (bsdcan.org)

3 days ago | lproven | bsdcan.org | newest

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Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else (theregister.com)

5 days ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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Xubuntu 24.04's minimal install: an official (nearly) Snap-free Ubuntu (theregister.com)

6 days ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, EndeavourOS, and TrueNAS 24.04 all arrive at once (theregister.com)

a week ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013) (computerhistory.org)

a week ago | lproven | computerhistory.org | frontpage

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Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX (timonoko.github.io)

a week ago | lproven | github.io | frontpage

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The 8-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80 (theregister.com)

a week ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Why does Windows use backslash as path separator? (2019) (os2museum.com)

a week ago | lproven | os2museum.com | best

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Miracle-WM tiling wm hits 0.2.0, and explaining X, Mir and Wayland (theregister.com)

a week ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins than ever (theregister.com)

a week ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs (geekdot.com)

2 weeks ago | lproven | geekdot.com | frontpage

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Qt Ubuntu remixes show that there's room for the flavours to innovate (theregister.com)

2 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug (theregister.com)

2 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Novell – If at first you don't succeed (abortretry.fail)

2 weeks ago | lproven | abortretry.fail | frontpage

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AlmaLinux 9.4 in beta, & CIQ has an alternative approach to compatible kernels (theregister.com)

2 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types (theregister.com)

2 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with root disk encryption and syscall limitations (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanic architecture (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System (btxx.org)

3 weeks ago | lproven | btxx.org | newest

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PumpkinOS and RePalm: FOSS PalmOS-Compatibles in C21 (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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LXC, Incus and Lxcfs hit v6, first LTS – and Canonical's original, LXD, updated (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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VSI prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program hard, with no more Alpha or Itanium editions (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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"One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix." (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Locus Magazine is trying to crowdfund its continued existence (indiegogo.com)

a month ago | lproven | indiegogo.com | newest

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MacApp, probably the first ever GUI programming framework to be distributed (macgui.com)

a month ago | lproven | macgui.com | newest

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Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for CHERI software (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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6.9-RC1: improved workqueues means the beginning of the end of tasklets at last (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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The snake, the lizard and the Apple (satirical critique of Apple Inc.) (adriaan.biz)

a month ago | lproven | adriaan.biz | newest

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Flox 1: CLI package manager for multi-OS repeatable, declarative deployments (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Comparing and contrasting 9 different free/open software licenses (geraldew.wordpress.com)

a month ago | lproven | wordpress.com | newest

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Redis tightens its license terms: FOSS developers gotta eat (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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CSG (Citrix+Tibco) is failing to honor its (A)GPL obligations, say critics (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Firefox 124 improved on Android and Macs plus adds keyboard navigation of PDFs (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with kernel 6.6 and tweaks to new Wayland desktop (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0 (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to PostmarketOS (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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The GNU project nearly adopted the BSD kernel before Linux existed (2005) (groklaw.net)

a month ago | lproven | groklaw.net | newest

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The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi 5 (theregister.com)

a month ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (theregister.com)

2 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0 (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Why the Unix/Linux directory structure is the way it is (2010) (busybox.net)

3 months ago | lproven | busybox.net | newest

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Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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The Mikado Filesystem: an experimental RPC filesystem running over gRPC [pdf] (arxiv.org)

3 months ago | lproven | arxiv.org | newest

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A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Top reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat) are a 404 page (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (Rob Pike, 2000) (cat-v.org)

3 months ago | lproven | cat-v.org | newest

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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The history of Digital Research's Gemdos for the Atari ST (1986) (textfiles.com)

3 months ago | lproven | textfiles.com | best

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Progman is a simple X11 window manager modeled after Program Manager from Win3 (github.com/jcs)

3 months ago | lproven | github.com | newest

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RIP John Walker, Hacker Diet author and sponsor of pre-Web hypertext Xanadu (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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PiStorm Turbocharges Vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi and Emu68 (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Crunchbang++ vs. BunsenLabs: Lightweight rivals, based on OpenBox and Debian 12 (theregister.com)

3 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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The significance of Apple's Mac: 40Y on, it's still widely misunderstood (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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SparkyLinux: Flamboyant array of desktops, stable and rolling and RasPi releases (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Fresh Mint, Mint Edge, and MX Linux Releases (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Firefox 122 gets better translation – and native .deb packages as standard (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Dvtm – the dynamic virtual terminal manager that isn't tmux (brain-dump.org)

4 months ago | lproven | brain-dump.org | newest

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David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85 (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, and El Reg talks to the project founder (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Wine 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit EXEsc on 64-bit-only xNix (& Wayland) (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users? (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Memtest86 7: Essential for PC troubleshooting, even if you only run Windows (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007) (lproven.livejournal.com)

4 months ago | lproven | livejournal.com | best

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86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all 9 files of the oldest known MS-DOS (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Beginning OLIB: An uneducated look at Psion's proprietary OOPS C (hackaday.io)

4 months ago | lproven | hackaday.io | newest

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In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries (theregister.com)

4 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Tilde, a text editor for the Linux console that doesn't work like it's 1976 (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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The Register looks at the first release of Fedora Asahi Remix (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121 (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Systemd 255 – release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – is here with improved UKI support (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17: Irish Ubuntu metadistros release betas (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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A modern $400 MIPS workstation for a modern (government) era (2020) (virtuallyfun.com)

5 months ago | lproven | virtuallyfun.com | newest

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PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop (github.com/bluewaysw)

5 months ago | lproven | github.com | best

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Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before Linux 0.01 (github.com/gspu)

5 months ago | lproven | github.com | best

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Systemd release 0b11111111 (0xFF) is here with improved UKI support (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany – good and Electron-free – hit milestones (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | frontpage

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Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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Cinnamon 6.0 and KDE 6.0 (beta) both out (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | newest

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9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is out: Unix 2.0 programmers still busy bunnies (theregister.com)

5 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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RHEL 10 will be Wayland only; what does this mean for X.org? (theregister.com)

6 months ago | lproven | theregister.com | best

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The lost history of PReP: Windows NT 3.5x and the RS/6000 40p (virtuallyfun.com)

6 months ago | lproven | virtuallyfun.com | newest