Slashdot Items Tagged "os"

Date / Time Story
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:37PM Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess
Monday April 15, 2024 @04:38PM Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:04PM VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:48PM Linux Continues To Be Above 4% On the Desktop
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:06PM Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS
Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:26AM GNOME 46 Released
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:35PM macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive'
Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:38PM Database-Based Operating System 'DBOS' Does Things Linux Can't
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:33PM Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0
Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:41PM Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:58PM Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:46PM Copilot Pane As Annoying As Clippy May Pop Up In Windows 11
Monday March 04, 2024 @05:59PM Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:37PM KDE Plasma 6 Released
Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:20PM Remembering How Plan 9 Evolved at Bell Labs
Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:15PM Google Enables OS Upgrades For Older PCs Post-Windows 10 Support Cutoff
Friday February 02, 2024 @04:23PM Amazon Confirms Fire TV Is Dropping Android
Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:23AM Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?
Friday January 19, 2024 @05:46AM Huawei Makes a Break From Android With Next Version of Harmony OS
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:53PM Wine 9.0 Released
Monday January 15, 2024 @07:50PM Google Is No Longer Bringing the Full Chrome Browser To Fuchsia
Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:21PM Biggest Linux Kernel Release Ever Welcomes bcachefs File System, Jettisons Itanium
Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:29PM Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance
Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:17AM Linux Hits Nearly 4% Desktop User Share on Statcounter
Friday December 29, 2023 @12:54AM Linux Is the Only OS To Support Diagonal PC Monitor Mode
Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:32PM Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery
Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:12PM Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android?
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:12AM FreeBSD 14 Released
Friday November 17, 2023 @11:09PM Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland
Monday October 30, 2023 @01:22PM Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales
Friday October 20, 2023 @05:17PM OpenBSD 7.4 Released
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:53PM AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code
Friday October 13, 2023 @04:41PM Lenovo Will Soon Distribute Devices Powered By the Esper Foundation OS
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:14PM Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:46PM Deta's Space OS Aims To Build the First 'Personal Cloud Computer'
Wednesday October 04, 2023 @12:39PM Android 14 Officially Releases for Pixel Phones
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:00PM Windows 11's Next Big Update Now Available With Copilot, AI-powered Paint
Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:01PM Windows 11 Gains Support for Managing Passkeys
Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:02AM Windows 11's Next Big Update Arrives on September 26th With Copilot, RAR Support
Saturday September 02, 2023 @03:12PM ArcaOS 5.1.0 (OEM OS/2 Warp Operating System) Now Available
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:25AM FreeBSD Can Now Boot in 25 Milliseconds
Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:12PM Linux 6.5 Kernel Released
Monday August 21, 2023 @11:24AM Windows 11 Has Made the 'Clean Windows Install' an Oxymoron
Friday August 11, 2023 @04:32PM Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana App On Windows 11
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:20PM ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like Linux
Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:04PM Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack
Friday July 21, 2023 @06:01PM ChromeOS 115 Rolling Out: Android App Streaming, PDF Signatures
Friday July 14, 2023 @05:05PM AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL
Monday July 10, 2023 @04:42PM Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn't Make Linux 6.5
Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:02PM The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life
Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:16PM WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App
Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:34PM Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project's Small Real-Time Operating System
Monday June 05, 2023 @06:01PM Apple Announces iOS 17 With StandBy Charging Mode, Better Autocorrect
Monday June 05, 2023 @04:56PM Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and Game Mode
Monday June 05, 2023 @04:41PM Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset
Monday June 05, 2023 @04:34PM New DirectX 12-To-Metal Translation Could Bring a World of Windows Games To macOS
Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:50PM System76's Open Firmware 'Re-Disables' Intel's Management Engine
Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:15PM Intel Mulls Cutting Ties To 16 and 32-Bit Support
Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:29PM Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation
Friday May 19, 2023 @04:43PM CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:48PM Android 14 Will Add More Customization To Your Home and Lock Screens
Monday May 01, 2023 @05:05PM Microsoft To Take On Apple Silicon With Custom ARM Chips
Friday April 28, 2023 @02:34PM Microsoft is Busy Rewriting Core Windows Code in Memory-safe Rust
Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:23PM Linux Kernel 6.3 Released
Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:41PM Windows 11 Start Menu Ads Look Set To Get Even Worse
Friday April 14, 2023 @01:29PM Biggest Linux Company of Them All Still Pushing To Become Cloud Power
Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:51PM Microsoft Is Experimenting With a Steam Deck-Friendly 'Handheld Mode' For Windows
Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:14PM Android 14's First Beta Introduces a Back Arrow That Matches Your Background
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:06PM Microsoft Set To Change Print Screen Button So It Opens Snipping Tool in Windows 11
Monday April 10, 2023 @12:32PM OpenBSD 7.3 Released
Friday March 31, 2023 @10:05PM YouTuber Tricks ChatGPT Into Generating Windows 95 Keys
Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:48PM After Two Years, Autodesk Maya and AutoCAD Become Apple Silicon-Native
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:11PM GNOME 44 Released
Monday March 20, 2023 @04:53PM Microsoft Wants Changing Default Apps In Windows To Be Less of a Mess
Sunday March 05, 2023 @10:53PM Will AMD's 'openSIL' Library Enable Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot?
Friday March 03, 2023 @08:45PM First Look At Google Chrome's Blink Engine Running On an iPhone
Monday February 27, 2023 @01:02AM Linux 6.2: The First Mainstream Linux Kernel with Upstream Support for Apple M1 Chips Arrives
Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:38PM Microsoft Outlines Official Support For Windows 11 on Mac with Apple Silicon
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:19PM Android 14 Preview 1 is Out, Will Officially Ban Installation of Old Apps
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:04PM Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
Monday February 06, 2023 @06:11PM Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB
Monday January 30, 2023 @05:48PM PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers
Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:55PM Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework
Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:29PM Apple Gives Some Older iPhones OS Updates, Going Back To iPhone 5S
Monday January 23, 2023 @08:07PM Google's Fuchsia OS Was One of the Hardest Hit By Last Week's Layoffs
Friday January 20, 2023 @06:32PM Six Years Later, HPE and Oracle Quietly Shut Door On Solaris Lawsuit
Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:59PM Android 13 Is Running On 5.2% of All Devices Five Months After Launch
Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:16PM Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:46PM Vanilla OS 22.10: An Arch and Fedora-compatible Ubuntu
Monday December 12, 2022 @12:43PM Support for Windows 7 and 8 Fully Ends in January, Including Microsoft Edge
Monday December 05, 2022 @12:39PM Windows 11 Still Not Winning the OS Popularity Contest
Friday December 02, 2022 @08:34PM Apple Now Calling AR/VR Headset Operating System 'xrOS'
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:37AM Microsoft Offers Fix for Windows 11 Gaming Performance Issues
Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:00AM Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux
Friday November 04, 2022 @10:42PM Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:38PM Windows 11 Runs on Fewer Than 1 in 6 PCs
Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:53PM Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu
Monday October 24, 2022 @02:17PM Apple Releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16
Friday October 21, 2022 @06:30PM Apple Rumored To Be Testing macOS For M2 iPad Pro
Friday October 21, 2022 @06:09PM New Version of Windows 95 JavaScript App Runs On Basically Any Platform
Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:51PM OpenBSD 7.2 Released
Monday October 17, 2022 @06:56PM Google Announces KataOS
Friday October 14, 2022 @07:03PM Google Pixel 7 Series Only Support 64-bit Apps
Monday October 10, 2022 @04:19PM Windows 95 Went the Extra Mile To Ensure Compatibility of SimCity, Other Games
Monday October 10, 2022 @01:08PM Samsung Seeks Smart TV Growth With First Tizen OS Licensing Deals
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:05PM IceWM Reaches Version 3 After a Mere 25 Years
Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:00PM Basic Rust Support Merged For Upcoming Linux 6.1
Monday October 03, 2022 @04:34PM Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities
Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:01PM The Latest iPadOS 16 Beta Brings Stage Manager To Older iPad Pro Models
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:32PM Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 11 2022 Update
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:21PM Microsoft Commits To Updating Windows 11 Once Per Year, and Also All the Time
Tuesday September 13, 2022 @08:36PM Windows Terminal Gets Support For Creating Custom Themes
Wednesday August 31, 2022 @06:16PM Apple Releases Rare iOS 12 Update To Address Security Flaw On Older iPhones, iPads
Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:47PM Microsoft's Largest Piece of Software Weighed More Than 40 Pounds
Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:56PM Google's Fuchsia OS is Taking Over Smart Displays, Now on Its Second Device
Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:41PM Linux 6.1 Will Make It A Bit Easier To Help Spot Faulty CPUs
Tuesday August 23, 2022 @12:33PM Microsoft Finds Critical Hole In ChromeOS
Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:41PM Windows 11's Next Big Update Arrives Next Month With Start Menu Folders, New Gestures
Monday August 15, 2022 @03:10PM Linux 6.0 Arrives With Performance Improvements and More Rust Coming
Monday August 15, 2022 @01:47PM Google Releases Android 13, Rolling Out First To Pixel Phones
Friday August 12, 2022 @03:58PM NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware
Friday August 05, 2022 @05:02PM ChromeOS 104 Rolling Out With Dark Theme, Redesigned Launcher, and More
Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:43PM Can a Fork Save Cutefish OS (or Its Desktop)?
Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:02PM Google's Chrome OS Flex is Now Available for Old PCs and Macs
Monday July 11, 2022 @05:29PM Xbox Series X Can Run Windows 98, Along With Classic PC Games of The Era
Monday July 11, 2022 @02:46PM Apple's iOS 16, macOS Ventura and watchOS 9 Public Betas Are Ready To Download
Wednesday July 06, 2022 @07:48PM Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:10PM Gtk 5 Might Drop X.11 Support, Says GNOME Dev
Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:07PM Windows 10's 22H2 Update Might Not Actually Do Much of Anything
Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:48AM Linus Torvalds Is Cautiously Optimistic About Bringing Rust Into Linux Kernel's Next Release
Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:36PM RISC OS: 35-Year-Old Original ARM OS Is Alive and Well
Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:30PM Ubuntu Core 22 Brings Real-Time Linux Options To IoT
Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:18PM 'I Love the Linux Desktop, But That Doesn't Mean I Don't See Its Problems All Too Well'
Monday June 06, 2022 @08:41PM Next-Generation Apple CarPlay Will Be a Whole Car OS
Monday June 06, 2022 @03:30PM Apple Announces macOS 13 Ventura, the Next Major Software Update for the Mac
Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:53PM Older iPads May Soon Be Able To Run Linux
Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:08PM AROS One x86 v1.7 and MorphOS 3.17 PPC Released
Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:09PM Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives
Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:03PM AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux
Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:24AM Microsoft Will Support Third-Party Windows 11 Widgets Later This Year
Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:46AM Microsoft Tests Windows 11 Desktop Widgets With Web Search Bar
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:38PM FreeBSD 13.1 Released
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:39PM Software Freedom Conservancy Wins Big Step Forward For Open-Source Rights
Monday May 09, 2022 @08:09PM Microsoft Recommends People Uninstall Optional Windows 11 Update KB5012643
Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:13PM North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media
Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:01PM Microsoft Fixes Point of Sale Bug That Delayed Windows 11 Startup For 40 Minutes
Monday April 11, 2022 @05:16PM Microsoft: Moving Windows 11 Taskbar May Never Be An Option Again
Friday April 08, 2022 @04:32PM Raspberry Pi OS Ditches Longtime User Account For Security Reasons
Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:07PM Windows 3.1 Is Officially 30 Years Old
Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:49PM Fedora Plans To Drop Support For Legacy BIOS Systems
Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:16AM 'Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source'
Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:52PM Roku OS 11 Will Let You Set Your Own Photos as a Screensaver
Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:24PM Google Casually Announces Steam For Chrome OS Is Coming In Alpha For Select Chromebooks
Monday March 14, 2022 @08:07PM macOS 12.3 Arrives With Universal Control, Spatial Audio Features
Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:55PM New Windows 11 Test Build Wants Your Credit Card Info
Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:40AM FreeDOS Puts Out New Release
Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:51PM Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Replace File Systems?
Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:19PM Windows 11 Pro Now Requires Microsoft Account and Internet During Setup
Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:12PM Roku Mulls Building Its Own Smart TVs
Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:21PM Otter Browser Aims To Bring Chromium To Decades-Old OS/2 Operating System
Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:21PM Windows 11 is Getting New Touch Gestures, Start Menu Folders
Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:22PM Windows 11's First Big Update Arrives With Android Apps and Taskbar Changes
Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:41PM Raspberry Pi Bootloader Enables OS Installs With No Separate PC Required
Friday February 04, 2022 @05:26PM System76-Scheduler Is a New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness
Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:56PM Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up To 8 Hours of Online Time To Update
Saturday January 22, 2022 @01:57AM Hands-On Microsoft's Canceled Andromeda OS
Monday January 17, 2022 @04:26PM Why is Android 12 So Buggy?
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:07PM Hotel Chain Switches To Chrome OS To Recover From Ransomware Attack
Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:20PM Facebook Halts VR and AR Operating System Project
Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:10PM BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022
Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:12PM Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer?
Friday December 17, 2021 @10:31AM Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11
Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:33PM Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS
Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:48PM Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones
Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:08PM Windows 11 is Getting Some Much-needed Taskbar and Start Menu Improvements
Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:02PM Next Windows 11 Update Brings Back Clippy
Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:39PM New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin
Monday November 22, 2021 @05:37PM Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM
Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:14PM Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM
Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:00PM Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 10 With Yearly Feature Updates
Monday November 15, 2021 @09:06PM 'If Apple Keeps Letting Its Software Slip, the Next Big Thing Won't Matter'
Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:50PM Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs
Monday November 08, 2021 @08:09PM Huawei Offloads x86 Business As It Chases Self-Sufficiency
Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:02PM Microsoft Warns Windows 11 Features Are Failing Due To Its Expired Certificate
Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:25PM Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11
Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:01PM The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS
Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:31PM Microsoft Is Force Installing PC Health Check In Windows 10
Monday October 25, 2021 @05:04PM It's Windows XP's 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It
Monday October 25, 2021 @01:35PM macOS Monterey is Now Available To Download
Friday October 22, 2021 @04:08PM John Carmack Pushes Out Unlocked OS For Defunct Oculus Go Headset
Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:13PM Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones
Monday October 18, 2021 @04:36PM macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out On October 25th
Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:07PM OpenBSD 7.0 Released
Monday October 11, 2021 @06:18PM Google's Fuchsia Is Expanding To 'Additional Smart Devices and Other Form Factors'
Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:08PM Steve Jobs Tried To Convince Dell To License Mac Software
Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:42PM Microsoft Shares Windows 11 TPM Check Bypass For Unsupported PCs
Monday October 04, 2021 @06:01PM Google Releases Android 12 To AOSP, But No Pixel Launch Today
Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:34PM New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones
Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:17PM New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements
Monday September 27, 2021 @04:32PM Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say