Neowin News Feed for: Unix

You can totally install FreeBSD on these laptops without issues, claims OS maintainer

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:46:02 +0000

A new initiative highlights which laptops can run FreeBSD without issues, indicating broader hardware support than many might expect. Read more...

Trinity DE R14.1.5 adds window tiling support for multiple monitors

David Uzondu — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:16:01 +0000

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.5 is now available with several improvements, including support for window tiling across multiple monitors. Read more...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 released with bug fixes and improvements

David Uzondu — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:22:02 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 is now available for download, bringing fixes across components such as KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more. Read more...

KDE Plasma finally brings a feature users have been requesting for 22 years

David Uzondu — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:54:02 +0000

This week, the KDE team announced improvements to Discover and KRunner, along with a long-requested Plasma clipboard feature that users have been waiting on for over two decades. Read more...

KDE is removing all of the colorful third-party app icons from its Breeze icon theme

David Uzondu — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:30:01 +0000

The latest "This Week in Plasma" update from KDE focuses less on new features and more on fixes, performance tweaks, and the removal of colorful third-party app icons from Breeze. Read more...

Plasma 6.4.4 finally lands fixing issues with KWin, Discover, and more

David Uzondu — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:32:02 +0000

The KDE team has released Plasma 6.4.4, a bug fix update that addresses various issues across different parts of the desktop environment, including KWin and more. Read more...

Debian switches to 64-bit time completely to avoid Y2K38 disaster

Usama Jawad — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:50:02 +0000

Debian maintainers have proactively started implementing fixes for the Y2K38 problem, rather than scrambling at the last minute like in Y2K. Read more...

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is out with multiple bug fixes and improvements

David Uzondu — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:26:02 +0000

As scheduled, a new point release of KDE Plasma 6.4 is out. Version 6.4.3 brings the usual bug fixes to parts of the KDE Plasma system, including KWin and more. Read more...

KDE Plasma 6.5 will let you configure what the rotatable dials on your drawing tablet do

David Uzondu — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:22:02 +0000

The KDE team has shared a new update on the ongoing development across the KDE ecosystem, highlighting fixes and enhancements in Plasma 6.5 and 6.4.3. Read more...

KDE ISO Image Writer is finally getting a UI redesign and new features

David Uzondu — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:38:01 +0000

The official image writer tool for KDE, ISO Image Writer, is finally getting a design update, along with several fixes. Read more...

KDE's native virtual machine manager, Karton, inches closer to potential stable release

David Uzondu — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:36:02 +0000

KDE has been working on a native virtual machine manager for some time. Now, the developer has published an update showcasing how far it has come. Read more...

KDE is fixing blurry screens by snapping almost-1x scale factors back to 1x on Wayland

David Uzondu — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:36:01 +0000

The KDE team just dropped their weekly update, with bug fixes for Plasma 6.4.2, upcoming scaling tweaks in 6.4.3, and a bunch more improvements. Read more...

KDE releases Plasma 6.4.2 bringing multiple bug fixes

David Uzondu — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:58:01 +0000

The second bug fix release for KDE Plasma 6.4 is now live, addressing issues in components like Discover, Spectacle, and more. Read more...

KDE Plasma 6.4 launches, bringing better window management, improved KRunner, and more

David Uzondu — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:28:01 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.4 has finally arrived, bringing improvements to tools like KRunner, Spectacle, better window management, and more. Read more...

FreeBSD 14.3 release candidate ships with Docker-ready images and key fixes

David Uzondu — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:28:02 +0000

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now out, bringing OCI images to Docker Hub and GitHub, along with various bug fixes. Read more...

KDE is bringing a better Audio Volume widget, an HDR calibration wizard & more to Plasma 6.4

David Uzondu — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:48:01 +0000

The KDE team has provided a development update on the upcoming KDE Plasma 4, highlighting a new HDR calibration wizard along with various bug fixes. Read more...

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 ships with KDE Plasma 6 and general improvements

David Uzondu — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:10:01 +0000

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 has just dropped, and it brings support for the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment and fixes several issues. Read more...

Perhaps the earliest ancestor of Microsoft DOS and Windows just arrived on the Internet

Sayan Sen — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:56:01 +0000

The earliest known version of 86-DOS, which is basically the great grandfather of Microsoft DOS has arrived on the internet, thanks to a tech enthusiast who has uploaded the version to the Archive. Read more...

Linux/Unix exploit allows some restricted commands to be run as root without clearance

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:54:01 +0000

A subset of users with sudo access could have run commands restricted to root users by leveraging a discovered exploit in a function return call that changes the user ID in Linux and Unix systems. Read more...

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Bash comes to Windows with the help of Ubuntu

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:54:47 +0000

Continuing its push to integrate open-source technologies in Windows, Microsoft just gave the developer community an exciting piece of news by announcing Bash for Windows. Read more...

China makes good on its promise to ditch Windows with "NeoKylin," inspired by Windows XP

Justin Luna — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0000

China has been planning to ditch Windows for a long time, after the support for Windows XP got cut off. In line with this, the country's homemade OS, NeoKylin has recently been showcased. Read more...

Apple has released a fix for the Shellshock bug in Mac OS X

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:08:01 +0000

Apple has launched bug fixes for the various currently supported versions of Mac OS X to address the recently discovered serious security flaw in Bash, known as "Shellshock" Read more...

Shellshock bug impacts NAS devices like QNAP and Synology

Christopher White — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:56:01 +0000

While the UNIX world worked hard to fix the vulnerability in the bash shell, attention is now being turned to embedded-type devices such as routers and personal NAS devices as they run bash too. Read more...

"Shellshock" bug affecting Linux, Unix and OS X discovered

Shreyas Gandhe — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:28:01 +0000

A vulnerability believed to be more serious than the Heartbleed bug, has been discovered in Bash which is a shell widely used in various Unix and Linux based operating systems including Mac OS X. Read more...

YouTube Geek Week Easter Egg gives the site a UNIX overhaul

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:15:31 +0000

Google is promoting their upcoming Geek Week event on YouTube with a special Easter Egg that turns the site into something that resembles a UNIX workstation display. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Xenix - Microsoft's forgotten OS

Tyler Holman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:57:29 +0000

Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2... and Xenix? Once upon a time, Microsoft was selling the world's most popular version of Unix, and rumor has it that they even used it to develop DOS and Windows. Read more...

Only 3 of the world's most powerful computers run Windows

Tyler Holman — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:39:35 +0000

3 of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers run Windows, compared to the 469 running Linux. The good news? That's more than in June. The bad news? It's still even less than last year. Read more...

'Whonix' appears in the wild, makes your IP harder to find

Paul Ferson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:36:40 +0000

With Linux and its open source nature people have been able to create unique projects, and the wittily named 'Whonix' is no exception. Combining security tools it brings several layers of IP security. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: All About Operating Systems

Tyler Holman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:36:51 +0000

This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at operating systems; what they are, how they work, and their history, from their unlikely origins at General Motors to the source code of Windows. Read more...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix, dies

John Callaham — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:23:36 +0000

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system while he worked at Bell Labs, died over the weekend at the age of 70. Read more...

Former contractor alleges OpenBSD has FBI backdoors

Matthew Jones — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:01:58 +0000

A former US Government contractor has claimed the FBI placed a number of backdoors into the OpenBSD operating system. In an email made public on Tuesday, Gregory Perry former chief technologist at the now-defunct Network Security... Read more...

Party like it's 1234567890

Christopher Vendemio — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:25:17 +0000

This is one of those tidbits only a true geek will appreciate. For those of us who are completely out of the Unix loop, the operating system measures time by counting seconds from January 1,... Read more...

SCO guilty of lying about Unix code in Linux in Germany

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:49 +0000

In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty... Read more...

Judge Rules: SCO Does Not Own Unix

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:37:21 +0000

The SCO Group, notorious for its legal campagin against Linux users and developers, was dealt a devastating blow last week. A federal judge ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns the copyrights to Unix, effectively cutting... Read more...

SCO To Unix Developers: We Want You Back

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:23:31 +0000

The SCO Group Inc. is trying to become something other than the company that sued prominent users of Linux. "During the last 25 years, SCO has been committed to the Unix platform and continues... Read more...

LSB Goal: Save Linux From the Fate of Unix

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:17:01 +0000

Before there was Linux, before there was open source, there was (and still is) an operating system called Unix that was robust, stable and widely admired. It was also available under license to anyone... Read more...

Longhorn following Unix on security?

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:36:37 +0000

Microsoft's delayed Longhorn operating system appears to be taking a page from the Unix management book by curbing user's administration rights. Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn... Read more...

UNIX Authors Rush to Patch Telnet Flaw

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:46:01 +0000

Several high-profile distributors of the BSD version of the Telnet protocol have rolled out patches for a critical bug that could cause system-hijack attacks. The bug, which was reported by iDefense Inc., is a remotely... Read more...

IBM Says It Swamps Rivals in Key UNIX Computer Test

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:09:18 +0000

IBM said on Thursday its workhorse commercial computers have smashed the industry's most demanding tests, which analysts said creates a performance gap that could put further pressure on Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems to recalibrate their... Read more...