4+ day, 7+ 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…...

4+ day, 23+ 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…...

6+ day, 3+ 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…...

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…...

2+ week, 4+ 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,…...

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…...

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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1295+ words) Ah, Japan’s TRON project – every few years someone discovers it anew and it bubbles back up the surface, and deservedly so, as it’s an incredibly interesting operating system project that, like so many others, deserved a better fate. There’s a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (324+ words) So that is the whole pipeline exercised end-to-end. GrandSlam authenticates the Apple Account and obtains the IDS delegate. authenticateDS and id-register turn the Linux process into a registered Apple messaging identity. The Friends sequence attaches that identity to the existing…...

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…...