2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (242+ words) Over the past month or so, several enterprising contributors have taken an interest in the zig libc subproject. The idea here is to incrementally delete redundant code, by providing libc functions as Zig standard library wrappers rather than as vendored…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (469+ words) Rust is everywhere, and it's no surprise it's also made its way into the lowest levels of certain operating systems and kernels, so it shouldn't be surprising that various operating system developers have to field questions and inquiries about Rust....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (267+ words) If you wish to run Amiga UNIX yourself, you'll either have to have one of the original two models sold with it " the 2500UX and 3000UX " or one of the Amigas that meets the minimum requirements. Another option is, of course, emulation,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (512+ words) After a seemingly endless stream of tone deaf news from Mozilla, we've finally got some good news for Firefox users. As the company's been hinting at for a while on social media now, they've added an "AI" kill switch to…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (309+ words) But NixOS isn't the only declarative distro out there. In fact GNU forked Nix fairly early and made their own spin called Guix, whose big innovation is that, instead of using the unwieldy Nix-language, it uses Scheme. Specifically Guile Scheme,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (190+ words) I previously covered x64 OpenVMS release on VMware. This was insanely cool achievement for the operating system. While it had no practical ramification there was one small annoyance. The OS console was on a serial port. In VMware it meant another…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (566+ words) It's no secret that Windows 11 isn't exactly well-liked by even most of its users, and I'm fairly sure that perception has permeated into the general public as well. It seems Microsoft is finally getting the message, and they're clearly spooked:…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (368+ words) Operating systems written in Rust " especially for embedded use " are quite common these days, and today's example fits right into that trend. Ariel OS is an operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things (IoT). It is based on…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (210+ words) But was that always the case? Well, we've got new ROMs straight from a former Apple employee, and after flashing them to a supported ROM chip, the Apple Network Sever can now run classic Mac OS. On top of that,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (858+ words) As such, they've decided to develop a Wayland compositor from scratch: xfwl4. The goal is, that xfwl4 will offer the same functionality and behavior as xfwm4 does, or as much as possible considering the differences between X11 and Wayland. Using xfwl4 should feel just like…...