Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer A changed RMS appeared at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland OSes29 Sep 2023 | 12
Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better? Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups OSes27 Sep 2023 | 12
Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console Open Source Summit Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck helps everyone, corporate users included OSes27 Sep 2023 | 35
It looks like you’re a developer. Would you like help upgrading Windows 11? Microsoft adds a PC setup option and tools just for coders in Win 11 23H2, which debuted Tuesday OSes27 Sep 2023 | 49
Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Open Source Summit Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated OSes26 Sep 2023 | 44
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you OSes22 Sep 2023 | 96
Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' peeks out of the labyrinth As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity OSes19 Sep 2023 | 12
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 hits beta with reassuringly little drama Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies OSes13 Sep 2023 | 14
Microsoft Edge still forcing itself on users in Europe Updated Promised change to allow Windows system links open in the actual default browser not yet evident OSes12 Sep 2023 | 31
Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates Samsung's KSMBD server hitting primetime has several significant implications OSes11 Sep 2023 | 18
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update OSes11 Sep 2023 | 134
GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system As it reaches Release Candidate status, one change among many will have more visible impact OSes08 Sep 2023 | 36
Windows August update plays Blue Screen bingo – and MSI boards got the winning ticket BIOS update issued with tweaked Intel microcode OSes07 Sep 2023 | 18
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign? OSes06 Sep 2023 | 58
Fedora and Asahi Linux pals revamp installation process Switch to Calamares aims to make setup simpler OSes05 Sep 2023 | 4
ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century When your '90s nostalgia craves a modern touch OSes04 Sep 2023 | 72
antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too OSes01 Sep 2023 | 58
After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links Clicking a URL from a system service will actually open in your chosen browser. For some. How fancy OSes30 Aug 2023 | 36
Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is Summer push proved less disruptive than feared OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities Friday FOSS Fest Fancy running Windows, Linux and Classic MacOS on your modern x86-64 or Arm64 Mac? Walk this way
Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe But Meta was just about to start asking people for their permission!
Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators Skipper caught on tape saying 'What have I done? My career is gone' after crashing into coral reef after a couple of whiskeys
If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world Kubecon The Kubernetes circus hits Shanghai and ponders how to connect engineers
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer A changed RMS appeared at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?
Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info So much for that free speech, huh?
iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat
After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits
Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu With a choice of kernel versions, and even a 32-bit edition OSes25 Aug 2023 | 47
Microsoft whips out probe after Windows 11 users suffer the blue-screen blues Updated Pay particular attention if you're MSI and Intel powered OSes24 Aug 2023 | 8
Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more OSes24 Aug 2023 | 19
Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here Debian Bookworm without the controversial init – or the platform support, or the polish OSes21 Aug 2023 | 70
A license to trust: Can you rely on 'open source' companies? Opinion Sometimes nothing fails like success OSes18 Aug 2023 | 27
30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability OSes17 Aug 2023 | 88
Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic OSes16 Aug 2023 | 21
Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux Time for some fresh GRUB OSes15 Aug 2023 | 31
Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA 'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' OSes14 Aug 2023 | 50
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking OSes11 Aug 2023 | 5
GNOME 45 beta: Less buggy, more colorful, and still not your grandma's desktop Codenamed Riga after the venue for this year's GUADEC conference OSes10 Aug 2023 | 20
Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way What's new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives OSes09 Aug 2023 | 31
IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores Big Blue bakes in brainbox tech to get models running – because kids these days don't want a career in big iron OSes09 Aug 2023 | 19
Asahi Linux project hooks up with Fedora: Remix that's not a remix coming soon FAR out, man: first build for Apple Silicon Macs might make it out this month OSes07 Aug 2023 | 3
Behold, Incus: Check out this fork of Canonical's LXD 'containervisor' Lead dev Graber quits Ubuntu maker, helps out this new project OSes04 Aug 2023 | 19
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud OSes04 Aug 2023 | 311
Microsoft yanks internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release Redmond bugs out of that side quest OSes03 Aug 2023 | 4
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro OSes03 Aug 2023 | 77
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup Where does Agent P work again? OSes02 Aug 2023 | 127
GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? OSes01 Aug 2023 | 87
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all OSes31 Jul 2023 | 72
'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5 It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating OSes31 Jul 2023 | 30
OctoX is a radical Rust implementation of a very old OS for RISC-V There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too OSes28 Jul 2023 | 19
To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each BLISS this: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail project wants to head into space on the cheap OSes26 Jul 2023 | 10
Debian 12.1 released with bug fixes aplenty and excitement still in short supply The next version, 'Trixie', is starting to take shape and boasts an additional official CPU architecture OSes25 Jul 2023 | 10
Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023 The pain and joy of using an old OS on hardware newer than it is OSes24 Jul 2023 | 123
Linux lover consumed a quarter of the network Who, Me? Penguins are OK with glaciers. Academics not so much OSes24 Jul 2023 | 130
RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 18
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 58
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though OSes19 Jul 2023 | 82
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't OSes18 Jul 2023 | 239
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone Comment A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing OSes17 Jul 2023 | 47
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway OSes13 Jul 2023 | 120
China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system' OSes07 Jul 2023 | 17
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care OSes07 Jul 2023 | 115
Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian One's a bit raw and touchy, but the other is vintage stuff, brought up to date OSes06 Jul 2023 | 61
Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave. OSes05 Jul 2023 | 21
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change OSes04 Jul 2023 | 95
What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive devconf.cz The skillful handiwork of merging bits from different kernels into one, and keeping it secure at the same time OSes30 Jun 2023 | 13
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense OSes29 Jun 2023 | 51
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds OSes28 Jun 2023 | 221
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry On the other hand, some old settings are set for a comeback OSes23 Jun 2023 | 47
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams Comment From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all OSes23 Jun 2023 | 174
Forester delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora Devconf.cz Golang project also works with the CentOS Linux replacements OSes22 Jun 2023 |
Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps Shifting those duties to Outlook set for next year – well, maybe OSes20 Jun 2023 | 48
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Where are we now, Microsoft 362.5? Europe reports outages Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it OSes20 Jun 2023 | 16
Microsoft remembers it was going to bring Windows 11 to HoloLens While Apple has Vision Pro, Redmond's taking vision slow? OSes15 Jun 2023 | 6
At last, Microsoft lets Windows 11 share files with Android apps Android and Microsoft sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! But not too much OSes13 Jun 2023 | 6
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs? OSes09 Jun 2023 | 159
File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe OSes08 Jun 2023 | 101
One small Leap for OpenSUSE as 15.5 arrives ahead of business sibling Will be followed soon after by SLE 15 SP 5 as org continues prep for ALP OSes08 Jun 2023 | 4
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17 WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024 Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too OSes06 Jun 2023 | 65
Microsoft Windows edges closer to SMB security signing fully required by default 'This is certainly the biggest change we've made since the campaign to remove SMB1' OSes06 Jun 2023 | 44
Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for If Ubuntu is getting you down, check out its grandad OSes05 Jun 2023 | 54
Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond OSes02 Jun 2023 | 87
Windows driver woes trip AMD GPU owners, blind Arm-powered cameras Rollbacks and workarounds abound OSes30 May 2023 | 12
Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11 We almost forgot Redmond had an interest in anything but x86 OSes29 May 2023 | 11
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers OSes26 May 2023 | 56
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again OSes26 May 2023 | 144
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11 OSes25 May 2023 | 6
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version OSes19 May 2023 | 5
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk OSes19 May 2023 | 95
Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland Got an Apple Silicon Mac? Want to run Linux? Then you'll need a Wayland-based desktop OSes17 May 2023 | 108
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems Small but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones OSes16 May 2023 | 6
Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not Also, Windows 12 might be on the way, so buckle up OSes15 May 2023 | 122
An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed Remember Linspire, formerly known as LindowsOS? It's now Freespire and thriving OSes15 May 2023 | 33
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions OSes12 May 2023 | 82
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin OSes11 May 2023 | 48
Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state OSes05 May 2023 | 28
Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages OSes03 May 2023 | 4
When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain Comment Gosh, you're a fussy old lot, aren't you? OSes03 May 2023 | 180
Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in Exclusive 'Reject this capitalist logic' urges French legion within Linux slinger OSes28 Apr 2023 | 47
No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final Shift off to Win 11 now, go on... better hope your biz is giving out fresh hardware OSes28 Apr 2023 | 210
iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped OSes28 Apr 2023 | 39
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO OSes24 Apr 2023 | 28
Linux 6.3 debuts after 'nice, controlled release cycle' Preps for Intel's Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel OSes24 Apr 2023 | 5