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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-31 at 23:19

This Sculpt OS video walkthrough explains how to use Sculpt OS

We talk about the Genode project and Sculpt OS quite regularly on OSNews, but every time I've tried using Sculpt OS, I've always found it so different and so unique compared to everything else that I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I assume this stems from nothing but my own shortcomings, because the Genode

https://www.osnews.com/story/141663/this-sculpt-os-video-walkthrough-explains-how-to-use-sculpt-os/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-31 at 22:37

Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch

If you have type 1 diabetes, you need to keep track of and manage your blood glucose levels closely, as if these levels dip too low, it can quickly spiral into a medical emergency. Andrew Childs' 9 year old son has type 1 diabetes, and Childs was unhappy with any of the current offerings on the market for children to keep track of their blood glucose level

https://www.osnews.com/story/141661/building-a-t1d-smartwatch-from-scratch/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-31 at 19:18

Let’s Encrypt ends support for expiration notification emails

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025.

↫ Josh Aas on the Let's Encrypt website

They're ending the expiration notification service because it's costly, ad

https://www.osnews.com/story/141659/lets-encrypt-ends-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-31 at 11:15

The Heirloom Project

The Heirloom Project provides traditional implementations of standard Unix utilities. In many cases, they have been derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun.

Interfaces follow traditional practice; they remain generally compatible with System V, although extensions that have become common use over the course of time are sometimes provided. Most utilities ar

https://www.osnews.com/story/141653/the-heirloom-project/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-31 at 11:04

Android 16’s Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course we ran Doom

Regardless, the fact that Android’s Linux Terminal can run graphical apps like Doom now is good news. Hopefully we’ll be able to run more complex desktop-class Linux programs in the future. I tried running GIMP, for example, but it didn’t work. Eventually,

https://www.osnews.com/story/141651/android-16s-linux-terminal-will-soon-let-you-run-graphical-apps-so-of-course-we-ran-doom/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-29 at 22:34

Apple’s macOS UNIX certification is a lie

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a someone mentioning macOS is a UNIX approaches 1. In fact, it was only late last year that The Open Group announced that macOS 15.0 was, once again, certified as UNIX, continuing Apple's long-standing tradition of certifying macOS releases as "real" UNIX®. What does any of this actually, mean, thou

https://www.osnews.com/story/141633/apples-macos-unix-certification-is-a-lie/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-29 at 22:33

Linux 6.14 with Rust: “We are almost at the ‘write a real driver in Rust’ stage now”

With the Linux 6.13 kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman described the level of Rust support as a "tipping point" for Rust drivers with more of the Rust infrastructure having been merged. Now for the Linux 6.14 kernel, Greg describes the state of the Rust driver possibilities a

https://www.osnews.com/story/141643/linux-6-14-with-rust-we-are-almost-at-the-write-a-real-driver-in-rust-stage-now/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-29 at 22:25

OpenAI doesn’t like it when you use “their” generated slop without permission

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

↫ Cristina Criddle and Eleanor Olcott fo

https://www.osnews.com/story/141641/openai-doesnt-like-it-when-you-use-their-generated-slop-without-permission/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-28 at 20:27

Google Maps is run by cowards

Google, on its Google Maps naming policy, back in 2008:

By saying "common", we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the n

https://www.osnews.com/story/141627/google-maps-is-run-by-cowards/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-28 at 14:35

Reviving a dead audio format: the return of ZZM

Long-time readers will know that my first video game love was the text-mode video game slash creation studio ZZT. One feature of this game is the ability to play simple music through the PC speaker, and back in the day, I remember that the format “ZZM” existed, so you could enjoy the square wave tunes outside of the games. But imagine my surpri

https://www.osnews.com/story/141625/reviving-a-dead-audio-format-the-return-of-zzm/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-28 at 14:23

The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

A bug in the ROM for the Macintosh II was recently discovered that causes a crash when booting in 32-bit mode. Doug Brown discovered and documented the bug while playing with the MAME debugger. Why did it never show up before? It seems a quirk

https://www.osnews.com/story/141616/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-27 at 23:50

PebbleOS becomes open source, new Pebble device announced

Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and create a brand new smartwatch.

PebbleOS took

https://www.osnews.com/story/141621/pebbleos-becomes-open-source-new-pebble-device-announced/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-27 at 23:38

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out

Speaking of "AI", the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the "AI" bubble, and it's been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new "AI" models, which s

https://www.osnews.com/story/141619/chinese-researchers-just-built-an-open-source-rival-to-chatgpt-in-2-months-and-silicon-valley-is-freaked-out/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-27 at 22:51

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others

Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond.

The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times,

https://www.osnews.com/story/141617/ai-bots-paralyze-linux-news-site-and-others/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-25 at 11:30

When a sole maintainer steps down, Linux drivers become orphans

The Linux kernel has become such an integral, core part of pretty much all aspects of the technology world, and corporate contributions to the kernel make up such a huge chunk of the kernel's ongoing development, it's easy to forget that some parts of the kernel are still maintained by some lone person in Jackson

https://www.osnews.com/story/141613/when-a-sole-maintainer-steps-down-linux-drivers-become-orphans/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-25 at 11:03

Android 16 Beta 1 has started rolling out for Pixel devices

Google has released the first beta for Android 16, arriving more than two months after Android 15's official release. As expected, the beta is rolling out to Pixel devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program. It introduces new features and improvements that may make it to the final release of Android 16 later this ye

https://www.osnews.com/story/141611/android-16-beta-1-has-started-rolling-out-for-pixel-devices/

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Written by OSNews on 2025-01-24 at 22:04

We seem to be having some downtime issues. The People™ have been informed, and work is underway to get it fixed.

Apologies! In the meantime, go out, have some fun, tell your loved ones how important they are, play some games, port Firefox-current/esr to HPUX 11.11/PA-RISC, you know, the small things in life.

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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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