A new initiative highlights which laptops can run FreeBSD without issues, indicating broader hardware support than many might expect.
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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.5 is now available with several improvements, including support for window tiling across multiple monitors.
KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 is now available for download, bringing fixes across components such as KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more.
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.
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.
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.
Debian maintainers have proactively started implementing fixes for the Y2K38 problem, rather than scrambling at the last minute like in Y2K.
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.
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.
The official image writer tool for KDE, ISO Image Writer, is finally getting a design update, along with several fixes.
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.
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.
The second bug fix release for KDE Plasma 6.4 is now live, addressing issues in components like Discover, Spectacle, and more.
KDE Plasma 6.4 has finally arrived, bringing improvements to tools like KRunner, Spectacle, better window management, and more.
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now out, bringing OCI images to Docker Hub and GitHub, along with various bug fixes.
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.
FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 has just dropped, and it brings support for the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment and fixes several issues.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Samsung is shutting down yet another app used by millions
Windows 11 KB5094126 BSODing, freezing, forcing BitLocker lockout, breaks OneDrive, and more
Microsoft hides these secret Windows 11 performance boost settings available on every PC
