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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-23 at 00:41

Snowdrop OS: a homebrew operating system from scratch, in x86 assembly language

Snowdrop OS was born of my childhood curiosity around what happens when a PC is turned on, the mysteries of bootable disks, and the hidden aspects of operating systems. It is a 16-bit real mode operating system for the IBM PC architecture. I designed and developed this homebrew OS

https://www.osnews.com/story/141600/snowdrop-os-a-homebrew-operating-system-from-scratch-in-x86-assembly-language/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-23 at 00:26

NixBSD: an unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel

NixBSD is an attempt to make a reproducible and declarable BSD, based on NixOS. Although theoretically much of this work could be copied to build other BSDs, all work thus far has been focused on building a FreeBSD distribution.

↫ NixBSD GitHub page

Look, it's my job to make sure I use and am familiar with as many operating

https://www.osnews.com/story/141598/nixbsd-an-unofficial-nixos-fork-with-a-freebsd-kernel/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-23 at 00:08

SDL 3.2.0 released

SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer, has released version 3.2.0 of its development library. In case you don't know what SDL is:

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's awar

https://www.osnews.com/story/141596/sdl-3-2-0-released/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-21 at 00:22

9front “THIS TIME DEFINITELY” released

The operating system I'm not cool enough to run has pushed out a new release: 9front “THIS TIME DEFINITELY” is now available. 9front is a fork of plan9, created after plan9 languished at Bell Labs. This release enables gefs, the new file system, in the installer, "ip/ipconfig now support dhcpv6 dynamic allocations and handles prefix expirations", and it come

https://www.osnews.com/story/141590/9front-this-time-definitely-released/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-21 at 00:09

Right to root access

I believe consumers, as a right, should be able to install software of their choosing to any computing device that is owned outright.

This should apply regardless of the computer’s form factor. In addition to traditional computing devices like PCs and laptops, this right should apply to devices like mobile phones, “smart home” appliances, and even industrial equipment like tractors.

In

https://www.osnews.com/story/141588/right-to-root-access/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-20 at 23:36

How UNIX spell ran in 64kB RAM

How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can't compress this file below 85kB.

In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced this exact challenge while implementing the spell checker for Unix at AT&T. The constraints of the PDP-11 computer meant the entire dictionary needed

https://www.osnews.com/story/141586/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-20 at 21:26

Introduction to GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS (written GOS from now on) is an Android based operating system that focuses security. It is only compatible with Google Pixel devices for multiple reasons: availability of hardware security components, long term support (series 8 and 9 are supported at least 7 years after release) and the hardware has a good quality / price ratio.

The goal of GOS is to provide users a

https://www.osnews.com/story/141584/introduction-to-grapheneos/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-20 at 21:17

Linux 6.13 released

Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for benefiting multi-CCD Ryzen X3D processors, the new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors will now default to AMD P-State rather than ACPI CPUFreq for better power efficiency, the start of Intel Xe3 graphics bring-up, support for many older (pre-M1) Apple devices like numerous iPads and iPhones, NVMe 2.1 specificatio

https://www.osnews.com/story/141582/linux-6-13-released/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 21:35

MorphOS 3.19 released

It's been about 18 months, but we've got a new release for MorphOS, the Amiga-like operating system for PowerPC Macs and some other PowerPC-based machines. Going through the list of changes, it seems MorphOS 3.19 focuses heavily on fixing bugs and addressing issues, rather than major new features or earth-shattering changes. Of note are several small but important updates, like updated versio

https://www.osnews.com/story/141578/morphos-3-19-released/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 20:27

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.

In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spa

https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 19:24

Dillo 3.2.0 released

We've got a new Dillo release for you this weekend!

We added SVG support for math formulas and other simple SVG images by patching the nanosvg library. This is specially relevant for Wikipedia math articles.

We also added optional support for WebP images via libwebp. You can use the new option ignore_image_formats to ignore image formats that you may not trust (libwebp had some CVEs rec

https://www.osnews.com/story/141567/dillo-3-2-0-released/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 01:16

Hands-on graphics without X11 using NetBSD’s wscons

Now, if you have been following the development of EndBASIC, this is not surprising. The defining characteristic of the EndBASIC console is that it’s hybrid as the video shows. What’s newsworthy, however, is that the EndBASIC console can now run directly on a framebuffer exposed by the kernel. No X11 nor Wayland in the pi

https://www.osnews.com/story/141565/hands-on-graphics-without-x11-using-netbsds-wscons/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 00:59

Microsoft adds “AI” to Microsoft 364 and raises prices to pay for it

Up until now, if you were subscribed to Office 365 - I think it's called Microsoft 365 now - and you wanted the various "AI" Copilot features, you needed to pay $20 extra. Well, that's changing, as Microsoft is now adding these features to Microsoft 365 by default, while raising the prices for ev

https://www.osnews.com/story/141563/microsoft-adds-ai-to-microsoft-364-and-raises-prices-to-pay-for-it/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-18 at 00:41

Venture: cross-platform GUI tool for parsing and analyzing Windows event logs

Venture is a cross-platform viewer for Windows Event Logs (.evtx files). Built with the Tauri, it is intended as a fast, standalone tool for quickly parsing and slicing Windows Event Log files during incident response, digital forensics, and CTF competitions.

↫ Venture GitHub page

https://www.osnews.com/story/141560/venture-cross-platform-gui-tool-for-parsing-and-analyzing-windows-event-logs/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-17 at 23:41

Google announces it’s going to intentionally violate EU law

Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios.

[...]

In a letter written to Renate Nikolay, the deputy director general under the conte

https://www.osnews.com/story/141558/google-announces-its-going-to-intentionally-violate-eu-law/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-15 at 18:48

Offer: Volunteer labor for your open source project

OSNews Sponsor OS-SCi is educating the next generation FOSS engineers, and as part of their coursework, they're looking for worthy open source projects to which they can contribute their time and effort. In addition to the work they provide during their studies, these volunteers will be encouraged to continue to be involve

https://www.osnews.com/story/141556/offer-volunteer-labor-for-your-open-source-project/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-15 at 15:30

Microsoft will also stop supporting Office applications on Windows 10 after October 14

It seems we're getting a glimpse at the next stick Microsoft will be using to push people to buy new PCs (we're all rich, according to Microsoft) or upgrade to Windows 11. In a blog post extolling the virtues of a free upgrade from Windows 10 to 11, the company ann

https://www.osnews.com/story/141549/microsoft-will-also-stop-supporting-office-applications-on-windows-10-after-october-14/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-15 at 15:13

Nepenthes: a dangerous tarpit to trap LLM crawlers

If you don't want OpenAI's, Apple's, Google's, or other companies' crawlers sucking up the content on your website, there isn't much you can do. They generally don't care about the venerable robots.txt, and while people like Aaron Schwartz were legally bullied into suicide for downloading scientific articles using a guest account, whil

https://www.osnews.com/story/141545/nepenthes-a-dangerous-tarpit-to-trap-llm-crawlers/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-15 at 14:39

Microsoft releases 161 Windows security updates

Speaking of Microsoft shipping bad code, how about an absolutely humongous 'patch Tuesday'?

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond’s inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more f

https://www.osnews.com/story/141543/microsoft-releases-161-windows-security-updates/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-15 at 00:22

A Microsoft change to the Linux kernel caused major breakagem, but was caught in time

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday.

↫ Michae

https://www.osnews.com/story/141540/a-microsoft-change-to-the-linux-kernel-caused-major-breakagem-but-was-caught-in-time/

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