ReactOS Newsletter 104 - April/May news (reactos.org)
Ars Technica | Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s (arstechnica.com)
Here are links to the website, GitHub, and Wikipedia pages....
RainbowSnakeOS (palma3000.itch.io)
A 512 byte OS and snake video game written in 16-bit x86 assembly language (FASM). It can be run from boot sector and MS DOS as .com application.
OMG! We’re at forty! (Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 40) - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Fedora 40’s Changeset...
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)
This Month in Redox - March 2024 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
Setting up Microsoft OS/2 Pre-Release 2 build 6.78 (and compiling) (www.youtube.com)
The Berkeley Software Distribution (www.abortretry.fail)
Porting Strategy - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9979951...
System-hardening pinsyscalls(2) work on OpenBSD, summarized by Theo de Raadt. "The direct-syscalls-inside-the-binary model used by go ... provided the biggest resistance against this effort." (www.undeadly.org)
TIL about KDE @ KDE Social (lemmy.kde.social)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8098358...
openSUSE's Logo Competition Results (en.opensuse.org)
How do you recall your most used commands?
For example, things you do often but not often enough to make a muscle memory? On Linux systems with Bash, I just use bash aliases. If I do it more than once, It gets an alias or a script; cause I won’t remember next time. Example of my current desktop aliases :...
Nala: a frontend for APT, so you can have prettier output, faster downloads of packages, and a history. (linuxiac.com)
Fedora Linux 39 is officially here! - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
I rebased my Silverblue install yesterday. The most notable change in my opinion is the tweaks to the UI and theming of Gnome 45....
Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.5 has many great features from the AMD P-State EPP driver default rather than ACPI CPUFreq for Zen 2 and newer supported AMD Ryzen systems, initial USB4 v2 enablement, initial MIDI 2.0 kernel driver work, more Intel hybrid CPU tuning, and a whole lot more.
If Mircosoft were to fully collaborate with the Linux/open source community what would the resulting Linux distro chimera look like and how would it affect the Linux community in general?
I am aware of the Linux subsystem and projects like Linspire and ReactOS that attempt to either better compatibility between the two OSs or replicate the other but I was wondering if Microsoft were to open source the entirety of Windows what the ramifications on the Linux community would be....
I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
Long story short, I was arrested for disorderly conduct and “resisting arrest.” The police took my phone and arrested me when I told them I was recording. They took me in a car, and we waited for about 15 minutes, then they brought my phone back. When I got out of jail, the recording only went up to a few seconds before a...
Trying to install Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 3000
Ok, I know this is outside of the norm for this page, I don’t really care....
Toy Story characters behind code names of Debian releases (blanc.pages.dev)
Debian release code names are derived from the names of characters in the movie Toy Story. This post lists Debian releases accompanied by images of their corresponding Toy Story characters.
Zorin OS 16.3 is now available and ready to make using Linux even easier (www.zdnet.com)
If you’re looking for what might well be the most polished and user-friendly Linux distribution on the market, Zorin OS has a new release for you that covers all the bases.
Systemd-Free Immutable Distro Nitrux 2.9.1 Is Out Powered by Liquorix Kernel 6.4 (9to5linux.com)
Nitrux uses OpenRC instead of systemd, unlike most mainstream distros. It also features the Liquorix kernel, described as “an enthusiast Linux kernel designed for uncompromised responsiveness in interactive systems, enabling low latency in A/V production, and reduced frame time deviations in games.”...
Any tips/tricks for cloning an existing operating system (Win10) to run in a VM?
I have a laptop with obsolete, licensed diagnostic software that I use on old equipment still in service. I’ve kept it alive longer than it should have been, but it’s only a matter time before a disk or mobo failure puts me in a bad spot....
What new OS* have you tried this year?
*or distribution...
Best Linux for tablet pc ?
I got this Chinese brand tablet pc and I’m positively surprised by it. Its a Dere T30 pro for those who are interested. I’ve been a Linux user for 20 years now so windows 11 is kinda new to me but I don’t think I like it in the long run. I’m going to try to get Linux running on my tablet. So…What os or dm is best to...