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Solaris’ turnstiles – OSnews
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (278+ words) Although Solaris is now mostly defunct, its influence remains substantial; technologies pioneered by Solaris can still be found across a wide range of software A lot of Solaris’ inventions have been described and talked about ad nauseam (such as the…...
FreeBSD working on new service manager
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (381+ words) The BSD news will continue until morale improves. I missed this two months ago, but Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD called rcd. rcd(8) is a service manager daemon called by…...
Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (416+ words) With ever-changing devices, browsers, operating systems, form factors, specifications, personal preferences, tooling, and corporate interests, the web is in a constant state of flux. As a result, so is the HTML we write. For every line of the HTML specification…...
ReactOS 0.4.16 released
1+ week, 3+ day ago (212+ words) We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.16! After a year and a half of development, we’re excited to showcase the improvements we’ve made between a new graphical installer; a unified bootcd and livecd image; video, audio, networking, and…...
Genode OS Framework 26.08 released
2+ week, 5+ day ago (200+ words) Right on schedule – as always – there’s a new Genode OS Framework release, version 26.08. The highlights of Genode 26.08 are VirtualBox 7, improved PC performance of our custom microkernel, the new ability to transparently reconfigure virtual file systems, revised timing and timeout handling,…...
An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists
2+ week, 6+ day ago (797+ words) Motif is great, I love how it looks and feels, and I want it to be actively maintained. I want a healthy ecosystem of Motif applications and even window managers and desktop environments, so I can run a real Motif…...
Beyond the limits of physical VRAM
3+ week, 6+ day ago (546+ words) Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With that work now accepted by upstream, Vock decided to turn…...
Pascal for small machines
3+ week, 6+ day ago (343+ words) We talked about the latest release of Delphi a few days ago, and that brought me to Hans Otten’s website. This site is about my experience with the Wirth school of languages, based on the ideas and implementations of Prof…...
Linux 7.2 released – OSnews
3+ week, 6+ day ago (99+ words) Version 7.2 of the Linux kernel has been released. Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf()vsystem call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem, further swap subsystem improvements, improvements…...
Super Mario derivations
3+ week, 6+ day ago (203+ words) One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes much of Nixpkgs possible, and its complexity. I decided to…...