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• Post #4500551

  Publishing schematics before “open source” was a word: 55 years of Akizuki Denshi, Japan’s legendary parts Store Akihabara, Tokyo’s famous “Electric Town,” is overflowing with foreign tourists these days, drawn by anime shops, maid cafes, and duty-free electronics megastores. But there is one storefront most of them walk p https://www.osnews.com/story/145723/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizuki-denshi-japans-legendary-parts-store/ #Hardware

• Post #4479799

  Thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, EU citizens are getting copy and paste between iOS and Windows The European Union's Digital Markets Act keeps delivering for EU citizens. Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs. Microsoft asked for the feature usin https://www.osnews.com/story/145708/thanks-to-the-eus-digital-markets-act-eu-citizens-are-getting-copy-and-paste-between-ios-and-windows/ #Apple

• Post #4384630

  But can your calculator run Linux? Don't have enough computing devices on your wish list yet? Do you have a need for a graphing calculator? No? What if it can run Linux and even Windows 10? I see I've got your attention. The HP Prime is a graphing calculator on the market since 2013, with a hardware revision in 2018 (the G2 model). It has a touch screen and as far as I can find, most people are ha https://www.osnews.com/story/145685/but-can-your-calculator-run-linux/ #Hardware

• Post #4384150

  Corporate players in Amiga community sign various agreements to clear up some of the decades-old licensing and ownership mess Few things in technology are more complex, convoluted, and riddled with literally decades of drama than the Amiga community. Luckily for all of us, a significant step forward has been m https://www.osnews.com/story/145687/corporate-players-in-amiga-community-sign-various-agreements-to-clear-up-some-of-the-decades-old-licensing-and-ownership-mess/ #AmigaAROS

• Post #4383673

  IBM i (OS/400): the database operating system Today, I wanted to show you one of the most fascinating and surprising operating systems ever created. It’s not another Unix, Linux, or Windows. It is an architecture that went its own way and proved that systems engineering design can look completely different. I’m talking about IBM’s child, which for many might be synonymous with “boring banking s https://www.osnews.com/story/145681/ibm-i-os-400-the-database-operating-system/ #IBM

• Post #4200727

  State of multi-player Wayland I’ve been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment! I just spent three weeks investigating how well that’s currently supported on Linux & Wayland. Let me tell you what I found! The results are surprisingly cool. ↫ blinry It shouldn't come as a surprise, though, that a lot o https://www.osnews.com/story/145621/state-of-multi-player-wayland/ #Wayland

• Post #4200268

  Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos on your machine It's that time of the week again, I guess. The year is 2026, and I’m still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu’s All apps list for an app I don’t remember installing. This time, it’s Microsoft again, and the product is OneDrive Photos, which appears to be yet another photo viewer and editor f https://www.osnews.com/story/145628/windows-11-is-quietly-installing-onedrive-photos-on-your-machine/ #Windows

• Post #4166679

  Windows NT got its name from one of Intel’s failed x86 replacements Dave Farquhar published an article today about Windows NT 3.1's place in the market when it was originally released, and while the article is interesting and a fun read, it does mention this: [...] Microsoft took its nascent code that it intended to form the base of OS/2 3.0, renamed it Windows Ne https://www.osnews.com/story/145617/windows-nt-got-its-name-from-one-of-intels-failed-x86-replacements/ #Windows

• Post #4151755

  The Fedora 45 sausage factory This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments. ↫ Simon de Vlieger Linux distributions - good ones like Fedora, at least - are really complex operations, with a ton of chec https://www.osnews.com/story/145615/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/ #FedoraCore

• Post #4137783

  10 REM”_(C2SLFF4 That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform. It's a REMark statement, a comment in that particular language. 10 is the line number, if you're unfamiliar with languages that had such things. But the interesting part was this "_(C2SLFF4 mess. A typo or garbage? No. It appears verbatim in the source code https://www.osnews.com/story/145607/10-rem_c2slff4/ #GeneralDevelopment

• Post #4135912

  Mozilla gives Haiku permission to use the Firefox name Haiku has a Firefox port, but due to Mozilla's trademark policies, it's actually called Iceweasel. After some back-and-forth with Mozilla, the browser maker has no given Haiku permission to officially use the Firefox name for the port. But don’t worry, Iceweasel isn’t going anywhere. I plan to maintain both. The idea is to ke https://www.osnews.com/story/145611/mozilla-gives-haiku-permission-to-use-the-firefox-name/ #Haiku

• Post #4076098

  Google Play Services drops support for Android 6.0 Given that Android phones have been around for nearly two decades now, there comes a time when Google has to end support for one of its older software versions. For a couple of years now, Google Play services has been supported on devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow or newer. That has changed over the past few weeks, with Google de https://www.osnews.com/story/145599/google-play-services-drops-support-for-android-6-0/ #Android

• Post #4035026

  Amiga 1000: ten years ahead of its time We all know the original Amiga was far ahead of its time, and the Amiga really doesn't need more retrospectives and glazing. However, that doesn't mean we don't want more Amiga retrospectives and glazing. I’m not sure I even saw an Amiga in person until 1987, but I knew just from reading about it that I wanted one. I wasn’t able to make it happen until https://www.osnews.com/story/145591/amiga-1000-ten-years-ahead-of-its-time/ #AmigaAROS

• Post #4020671

  Codeberg’s programmer user base overwhelmingly votes to ban slopcoded projects form its platform What happens when programmers get to vote on a complete ban on slopcoded software on their code platform? Members of Codeberg were asked to vote on a proposal to completely ban slopcoded projects from Codeberg, and in what should not https://www.osnews.com/story/145583/codebergs-programmer-user-base-overwhelmingly-votes-to-ban-slopcoded-projects-form-its-platform/ #GeneralDevelopment

• Post #4011582

  Happy companies are all alike; every unhappy company is unhappy in its own way Sam Altman seems to be making OpenAI way more non-profit than before: Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle the fantasy that AI is poised to become an almost magical money-maker. Case in point, OpenAI wants y https://www.osnews.com/story/145577/happy-companies-are-all-alike-every-unhappy-company-is-unhappy-in-its-own-way/ #ClownCar

• Post #4011576

  Volkswagen blocks custom Android ROM users from VW application Drivers of cars from the Volkswagen Group using alternative Android versions like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, or /e/OS have been unable to use the VW app for some time. This means they can neither check their vehicle's remaining range from their phone, schedule service appointments, nor control charging and air condi https://www.osnews.com/story/145579/volkswagen-blocks-custom-android-rom-users-from-vw-application/ #Android

• Post #3971238

  Regressive JPEGs One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off. ↫ maurycyz.com Oh I know where this is going... Doing this, I can get Chrome to render around 90 frames before giving up. Other browsers like Firefox have more patience, but a 90 s https://www.osnews.com/story/145568/regressive-jpegs/ #MultimediaAV

• Post #3970274

  “Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM” The Verge reviewed the latest Surface Laptop, which only comes with 8GB of RAM at a higher price than the previous 16GB model, and they conclude that Windows isn't really usable on 8GB of RAM. Whether that's true or not I do not know - I would assume it depends a lot on your usage - but this quote from https://www.osnews.com/story/145566/even-microsoft-couldnt-make-windows-11-work-well-on-8gb-of-ram/ #Windows

• Post #3942290

  DOSBox ported to OpenVMS for Alpha Speaking of OpenVMS and Alpha - and we like speaking about OpenVMS and Alpha, don't we? - there's now a port of DOSBox that runs on the Alpha version venerable operating system. Astr0baby has published both binaries and source code for the port, as well as a lovely set of screenshots to show it off working. https://www.osnews.com/story/145562/dosbox-ported-to-openvms-for-alpha/ #OSNews

• Post #3842851

  The web is being made accessible for AI, not people The Svelte web framework recently added a section to its documentation site addressed, cheerfully, to artificial intelligences: “If you’re an artificial intelligence, or trying to teach one how to use Svelte, we offer the documentation in plaintext format. Beep boop.” Svelte is participating in a broader movement to make the web legi https://www.osnews.com/story/145521/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/ #ClownCar

• Post #3682460

  You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we've collectively made it out to be? Did my m https://www.osnews.com/story/145459/you-paid-me-a-long-time-linux-user-to-use-windows-11-exclusively-for-a-month-heres-how-it-went/ #Windows

• Post #3660864

  Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos "GeopJr" Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many applications tagged with "AI slop", a tag Flathub reviewers used to keep tra https://www.osnews.com/story/145469/most-slopcode-projects-are-abandoned-and-deleted-within-months-of-release/ #...

• Post #3614575

  Review: iodéOS offers a frictionless de-Googled Android experience Wherever in the world you go, the smartphone landscape is dominated by Android and iOS, and while this has always been problematic, recent events have made the dependency on two American tech giants for what is probably our most personal computing device even more problematic than it already was. We use https://www.osnews.com/story/145312/review-iodeos-offers-a-frictionless-de-googled-android-experience/ #Android

• Post #3612671

  LineageOS and Android’s upcoming developer verification: what it is, and how it affects you LineageOS, the de-Googled Android ROM that serves as the backbone for pretty much the entire custom Android ROM community, has published an article about what the Android developer verification changes mean for them. I really like the factual tone of their https://www.osnews.com/story/145443/lineageos-and-androids-upcoming-developer-verification-what-it-is-and-how-it-affects-you/ #Android

• Post #3566287

  ReactOS implements very first NT6 system call A fairly big moment for the ReactOS project: it has just received its very first system call from NT6. The system call that has been added is NtGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx, which is used for returning the processor number of the logical processor that a caller is running on. It’s unclear how long it will take ReactOS to become compatible wit https://www.osnews.com/story/145428/reactos-implements-very-first-nt6-system-call/ #ReactOS

• Post #3557291

  Microsoft settles centuries of religious debate by providing clearest definition of hell to date: Windows with a website-based shell running only Copilot For how often people invoke it, the concept of "hell" in Christianity is remarkably vague and nebulous, as both the Old and New Tes https://www.osnews.com/story/145423/microsoft-settles-centuries-of-religious-debate-by-providing-clearest-definition-of-hell-to-date-windows-with-a-website-based-shell-running-only-copilot/ #ClownCar

• Post #3549932

  Android is almost dead The clock is ticking for Android as a (somewhat) open platform. If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devices around the world have been infected with this novel strain, with as many as 4 billion Android handsets and tablets estimated to have already been contaminated, meani https://www.osnews.com/story/145415/android-is-almost-dead/ #Android

• Post #3545820

  WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing What if you need to do very low-level testing involving the very guts of Windows NT, but don't need most of the userland that sits on top? In fact, what if that userland only slows you down and complicates the work you're trying to do? The solution is Windows PE (Windows Preinstallation Environment https://www.osnews.com/story/145413/winpe-as-a-stateless-harness-for-windows-driver-testing-and-fuzzing/ #Windows

• Post #3522493

  OSNews statement on slopcoded “operating systems” Recently, there has been a surge in slopcoded new/hobby "operating systems". Such slopcoded projects - which, due to the nature of "AI" tools, effectively consist of stolen code - will not be featured on OSNews and submitting them is fruitless. Other websites may choose to employ lower standards, as is their prerogative, but OSNews w https://www.osnews.com/story/145407/osnews-statement-on-slopcoded-operating-systems/ #OSNe...

• Post #3521000

  Linux ported to Sega’s Mega Drive If you have a Sega Mega Drive, you obviously want to run Linux on it. That's something you can do now. You do need to have an EverDrive, but don't worry, the port in question contains a custom fork of Qemu for those of us that don't. I don't know what else to say, other than I wonder why nobody did this sooner. https://www.osnews.com/story/145401/linux-ported-to-segas-mega-drive/ #Linux