Tag: operating systems

Google and Qualcomm are prepping ‘desktop’ Android to enable ‘mobile and PC’ in one device, but should Windows and x86 be afraid?

Google and Qualcomm are…

So, Google and Qualcomm are bigging up what’s basically a desktop version of the former’s Android OS for smartphones…
Microsoft exec

Microsoft exec. confirms Windows…

You know those clunky old dialogue boxes that get exposed if you click a few too many layers deep…
‘A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017’: Time to update your kernel

‘A single 732-byte Python…

Gaming on Linux has never been better—but that doesn’t mean your distros are free from security threats. Case in…
Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros

Linux century marches on…

If you hang around with cool enough people, you might have heard it’s the year of Linux on the…
6 months after Windows 10 was put to pasture, over a quarter of Steam users are still on the dying OS

6 months after Windows…

The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Windows with a commanding 93.47% share of users on the platform, but below…
This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

This historic OS was…

I’m dating myself here, but the operating systems I remember most clearly banging my head against in my youth…
If Microsoft wins this UK court case it might spell the end of second-hand Windows licenses

If Microsoft wins this…

Microsoft and the software reseller ValueLicensing have been going at each other for a while now, but the outcome…
Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run ‘at like, 5,000 frames per second’ on Windows NT

Former MS engineer Dave…

I’m not sure why I played so much Pinball on my Windows machine as a child. Nor am I…
Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates’ first-ever operating system

Microsoft has blown the…

In recent years, software giant Microsoft has been releasing the source code for some of its oldest operating systems…
A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix

A Valve developer has…

Natalie Vock, a Linux developer for Valve, has recently taken to their GitHub with a simple fix allowing rigs…