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Fedora's "AI" policy process highlights rift between IBM/Red Hat and Fedora

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OSNews @osnews.com · 11h

A lot of open source projects are struggling what to do with the "AI" bubble, and Fedora is no different. This whole past year, the project's been struggling to formulate...

Microsoft closes another loophole to enable local accounts in Windows 11

OSNews @osnews.com · 2d

It seems like Microsoft is continuing its quest to force Windows users to use Microsoft accounts instead of local accounts, despite the fact Microsoft accounts on Windows are half-baked and...

Servo GTK: a widget to embed Servo in GTK4

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OSNews @osnews.com · 2d

Servo, the Rust-based browsing engine spun off from Mozilla, keeps making progress every month, and this made Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wonder: what if we make a GTK widget so we...

Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after NAS sales plummet

OSNews @osnews.com · 2d

Earlier this year, popular NAS vendor Synology announced it would start requiring some of its more expensive models to only use Synology-branded drives. It seems the uproar this announcement caused...

MicroPythonOS: an Android-like operating system for microcontrollers like the ESP32

OSNews @osnews.com · 2d

MicroPythonOS is a lightweight, fast, and versatile operating system designed to run on microcontrollers like the ESP32 and desktop systems. With a modern Android-like touch screen UI, App Store, and...

Qualcomm gobbles up Arduino

OSNews @osnews.com · 3d

It was good while it lasted, I guess. Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple...

That small sliver of time where a QNX desktop was a real thing we did

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OSNews @osnews.com · 4d

Bradford Morgan White has published an excellent retrospective of QNX, the realtime microkernel operating system focused on embedded use cases. The final paragraph made me sad, though. QNX is a...

Redox now multithreaded by default

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OSNews @osnews.com · 4d

Can these months please stop passing us by this quickly? It seems we're getting a monthly Redox update every other week now, and that's not right. Anyway, what have the...

The case against generative AI: the numbers just don't add up (i.e., it's a scam)

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OSNews @osnews.com · 4d

Every single “vibe coding is the future,” “the power of AI,” and “AI job loss” story written perpetuates a myth that will only lead to more regular people getting hurt...

Under pressure from US government, Apple removes ICEBlock application from the App Store

OSNews @osnews.com · 8d

Your lovely host, late last night: Google claims they won’t be sharing developer information with governments, but we all know that’s a load of bullshit, made all the more relevant after whatever...

Google details Android developer certification requirement, and it's as bad as we feared

OSNews @osnews.com · 8d

Google has been on a bit of a marketing blitz to try and counteract some of the negative feedback following its new developer verification requirement for Android applications, and while...

Dutch judge to Facebook: stop secretly disregarding your users' settings

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OSNews @osnews.com · 8d

And here we have yet another case of the EU's consumer protection legislation working in our favour. Dutch privacy and consumer rights organisation Bits of Freedom sued Facebook over the...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 released

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OSNews @osnews.com · 10d

With Google closing up Android at a rapid pace, there's some renewed interest in mobile platforms that aren't either iOS or Android, and one of those is Ubuntu Touch. It's...

Microsoft conducts Windows reorg that sees core engineering teams back under the same roof as feature experience teams

OSNews @osnews.com · 10d

Microsoft is reorganising the Windows teams. Again. For those unaware, the Windows organization has essentially been split in two since 2018. Teams that work on the core of Windows were...

How to write a complete GNOME application in Lua

OSNews @osnews.com · 10d

This article is intended to be a comprehensive guide to writing your first GNOME app in Lua using LuaGObject. The article assumes that you already understand Lua and want to get started...

The Encore 91 computer system

OSNews @osnews.com · 10d

Have you ever heard of the Encore 91 computer system, developed and built by Encore Computer Corporation? I stumbled upon the name of this system on the website for the...

Google's Android developer registration requirement will kill F-Droid

OSNews @osnews.com · 11d

The consequences of Google requiring developer certification to install Android applications, even outside of Google's own Play Store, are starting to reverberate. F-Droid, probably the single most popular non-Google application...

Unite: a decades-old QNX-inspired hobby operating system

OSNews @osnews.com · 11d

Unite is an operating system in which everything is a process, including the things that you normally would expect to be part of the kernel. The hard disk driver is a user...

Why was Windows 3.0’s WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline?

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OSNews @osnews.com · 11d

Some time ago, I described Windows 3.0’s WinHelp as “a program for browsing online help files.” But Windows 3.0 predated the Internet, and these help files were available even if...

Installing Linux on a PC-98 machine

OSNews @osnews.com · 13d

What if you have a PC-98 machine, and you want to run Linux on it, as you do? I mean, CP/M, OS/2, or Windows (2000 and older) might not cut...

UNIX99: UNIX for the TI-99/4A

OSNews @osnews.com · 13d

I’ve been working on developing an operating system for the TI-99 for the last 18 months or so. I didn’t intend this—my original plan was to develop enough of the...

Another win for the Digital Markets Act: Microsoft gives truly free access to additional year of Windows 10 updates to EU users

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OSNews @osnews.com · 15d

A few months ago, Microsoft finally blinked and provided a way for Windows 10 users to gain "free" access to the Windows 10 Extended Security Update program. For regular users...

NFS at 40: a treasure trove of documents and other material about Sun's Network File System

OSNews @osnews.com · 15d

The contributions of Sun Microsystems to the world of computing are legion - definitely more than its ignominious absorption into Oracle implies - and one of those is NFS, the...

yt-dlp will soon require a full JS runtime to overcome YouTube's JS challenges

OSNews @osnews.com · 15d

If you download YouTube videos, there's a real chance you're sing yt-dlp, the long-running and widely-used command-line program for downloading YouTube videos. Even if you're not using it directly, many...