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The data is abundantly clear: the EU Digital Markets Act is working
The EU's Digital Markets Act has been in effect for a mere two years, but despite all the obstructionism, malicious compliance, and steady stream of lies from US tech companies and Apple in particular, it seems this rather basic consumer protection legislation is already bearing fruit.
In a two-year re
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The data is abundantly clear: the EU Digital Markets Act is working
The EU's Digital Markets Act has been in effect for a mere two years, but despite all the obstructionism, malicious compliance, and steady stream of lies from US tech companies and Apple in particular, it seems this rather basic consumer protection legislation is already bearing fruit.
In a two-year re
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Classic 7 combines Windows 7’s Aero Glass with Windows 10
Interest in classic user interface design is spiking, and today we've got another great example, highlighted yesterday by Micheal MJD. Classic 7 combined Windows 10 LTSC with a whole slew of themes and deep modifications to deliver Windows 10, but made to look, feel, and even act like Windows 7.
Classic 7 is a Window
https://www.osnews.com/story/144952/classic-7-combines-windows-7s-aero-glass-with-windows-10/
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EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive government data
The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments’ use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data, sources familiar with the talks told CNBC.
↫ Kai Nicol-Schwarz at CNBCThe fact that this is only just become a possible reality n
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Sculpt OS 26.04 released
Sculpt OS, the operating system based on the various components that make up Genode, has seen a new release, 26.04. A lot of the new features and changes to Genode that we've been talking about for a while now are part of this release, most notably the new human-inclined data syntax that replaces XML as the configuration language for Genode. That's not the only major improvement, though.
https://www.osnews.com/story/144913/sculpt-os-26-04-released/
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Redox gets partial window pixel updating, tmux, and more
Another month, another progress report, Redox, etc. etc., you know the drill by now. This past month Redox saw improved booting on real hardware by making sure the boot process continues even if certain drivers fail or become blocked. Thanks to some changes on the RISC-V side, running Redox on real RISC-V hardware has also im
https://www.osnews.com/story/144901/redox-gets-partial-window-pixel-updating-tmux-and-more/
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How hard is it to open a file?
Sebastian Wick has a great explanation of why opening files - programmatically - is a lot more complex and fraught with dangers than you might think it is.
It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:
very simple, just call the standard library function
extremely hard, don’t trust a
https://www.osnews.com/story/144825/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
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AI as a fascist artifact
In that reading „AI“ is a machine for the creation of epistemic injustice and the replacement of truth with what a tech elite wants it to be in order to control the population. This is a Fascist project that not so subtly aligns with Fascism’s totalitarian will to power and control as well as its reliance in replacing reasoning and debate with belief in power and the leader.
↫ Jürhttps://www.osnews.com/story/144823/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
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LXQt 2.4.0 released
LXQt, the desktop environment which is effectively to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.4.0. Quite a few changes in this release are further refinements and fixes related to LXQt's adoption of Wayland, but there are also a ton of small fixes, improvements, and small new features that have nothing to do with Wayland at all. There are also a few layout cleanups to make s
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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton’s algorithm.
↫ Kamila SzewczykI'
https://www.osnews.com/story/144797/fixing-a-20-year-old-bug-in-enlightenment-e16/
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Redox sees another months of improvements
The months keep coming, and thus, the monthly progress reports keep coming, too, for Redox, the new general purpose operating system written in Rust. This past month, there's been considerable graphics improvements, better deadlock detection in the kernel, improved Unicode support thanks to switching over to ncurses library variant with Unicode support,
https://www.osnews.com/story/144762/redox-sees-another-months-of-improvements/
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Redox gets new CPU scheduler
Another major improvement in Redox: a brand new scheduler which improves performance under load considerably.
We have replaced the legacy Round Robin scheduler with a Deficit Weighted Round Robin scheduler. Due to this, we finally have a way of assigning different priorities to our Process contexts. When running under light load, you may not notice any difference, but under
https://www.osnews.com/story/144733/redox-gets-new-cpu-scheduler/
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Capability-based security for Redox: namespace and CWD as capabilities
By reimplementing these features using capabilities, we made the kernel simpler by moving complex scheme and namespace management out of it which improved security and stability by reducing the attack surface and possible bugs. At the same time, we gained a means to support more sandboxing feature
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Redox bans code regurgitated by “AI”
Redox, the rapidly improving general purpose operating system written in Rust, has amended its contribution policy to explicitly ban code regurgitated by "AI".
Redox OS does not accept contributions generated by LLMs (Large Language Models), sometimes also referred to as "AI". This policy is not open to discussion, any content submitted that is clearly labe
https://www.osnews.com/story/144574/redox-bans-code-regurgitated-by-ai/
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ArcaOS 5.1.2 released
While IBM's OS/2 technically did die, its development was picked up again much later, first through eComStation, and later, after money issues at its parent company Mensys, through ArcaOS. eComStation development stalled because of the money issues and has been dead for years; ArcaOS picked up where it left off and has been making steady progress since its first release in 2017. Regardless, the d
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Redox gets NodeJS, COSMIC’s compositor, and much more
February has been a busy month for Redox, the general purpose operating system written in Rust. For instance, the COSMIC compositor can now run on Redox as a winit window, the first step towards fully porting the compositor from COSMIC to Redox. Similarly, COSMIC Settings now also runs on Redox, albeit with only a very small numbe
https://www.osnews.com/story/144554/redox-gets-nodejs-cosmics-compositor-and-much-more/
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Genode OS Framework 26.02 released
The Genode OS Framework 26.02 has been released, and its tentpole improvement is the completion of moving configuration from XML to the new human-inclined data syntax, as we talked about a few months ago. The project has been working on this for years, and now that the tooling, documentation, and so on have been added this release cycle, they're ready to make the swit
https://www.osnews.com/story/144494/genode-os-framework-26-02-released/
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The original Secure Boot certificates are about to expire, but you probably won’t notice
With the original release of Windows 8, Microsoft also enforced Secure Boot. It's been 15 years since that release, and that means the original 2011 Secure Boot certificates are about to expire. If these certificates are not replaced with new ones, Secu
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Redox gets working rustc and Cargo
Another month, another Redox progress report. January turned out to be a big month for the Rust-based general purpose operating system, as they've cargo and rustc working on Redox.
Cargo and rustc are now working on Redox! Thanks to Anhad Singh and his southern-hemisphere Redox Summer of Code project, we are now able to compile your favorite Rust CLI and TUI prog
https://www.osnews.com/story/144379/redox-gets-working-rustc-and-cargo/
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Microsoft gave FBI BitLocker keys to unlock encrypted data, because of course they did
Encrypting the data stored locally on your hard drives is generally a good idea, specifically if you have use a laptop and take it with you a lot and thieves might get a hold of it. This issue becomes even more pressing if you carry sensitive data as a dissi
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Budgie 10.10 released
Budgie has fallen a bit by the wayside in recent years, but it's still in development and making steady progress. The project's just released Budgie 10.10, the final release in the 10.x series which also marks the end of the transition to Wayland.
Budgie 10.10 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, marking our first release to migrate Budgie from X11 to Wayland. Thi
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Redox gets basic Linux DRM support
Since we moved to a new year, we also moved to a new month, and that means a new monthly report from Redox, the general purpose operating system written in Rust. The report obviously touches on the news we covered a few weeks ago that Redox now has the first tidbits of a modesetting driver for Intel hardware, but in addition to that, the project has also taken the fi
https://www.osnews.com/story/144138/redox-gets-basic-linux-drm-support/
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IceWM 4.0.0 brings alt+tab improvements
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released a new version, bumping the version number to 4.0.0. This release brings a big update to the alt+tab feature.
The Alt+Tab window switcher can now handle large numbers of application windows in both horizontal and in vertical mode. Type the first letter of an application class name in Alt+Ta
https://www.osnews.com/story/144105/icewm-4-0-0-brings-alttab-improvements/
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@osnews HP-UX (some Domain/OS) are what cut my teeth as a sysadmin at #unido (now #tudortmund) in the 90s. It had its quirks but I remember it - and the nice PA-RISC Hardware - fondly. And I remember updating tons of machines because #y2k was about to happen. And I remember #10base2. Cheers to HP-UX!
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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill has published a very interesting blog post about the shortcomings of both sudo and doas, and offers a potential different way of achieving the same goals as those tools.
Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely on ambient authority: policy is centralized and errors in the policy con
https://www.osnews.com/story/144017/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities/