2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (921+ words) On the Windows side of the age verification question, Microsoft is obviously following trends among lawmakers the world over. To address this, Windows is introducing a new platform capability: the Windows Age API. This API brings age awareness beyond the…...

4+ day, 16+ 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…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (193+ words) Yesterday we had the final maintenance release for the NetBSD 9.x series, and today we have FreeBSD 14.5 entering the scene. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (166+ words) Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step? In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (213+ words) Speaking of NetBSD, the fifth and final 9x release has been released. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.4 in April 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. This also…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (345+ words) AROS, the open source Amiga OS-compatible operating system, now has images available for the Raspberry Pi 3 (although some people state it also works on the Pi 4), in both 32bit and 64bit versions. According to the AROS team, they are quite stable, but…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (392+ words) A great and concise history of the run-up to MS-DOS 2.0. Yet, there was a nagging feeling that a single-tasking CP/M clone was inadequate for the new generation of personal computers. Digital Research released multi-user, multitasking MP/M-86 in September 1981 and…...

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…...