skiftOS is a passion working system constructed for studying and for enjoyable concentrating on the x86 platform. It incorporates a kernel named hjert, a graphical consumer interface with a compositing window supervisor, and acquainted UNIX utilities. This seems to be remarkably superior for a “passion working system”, and may be run in each Qemu and...

The rise of OSX (bear in mind, when it got here alongside Apple had a single-digit slice of the pc market) meant that individuals ultimately obtained used to the concept of a life with no desktop personalization. These days most individuals don’t even change their wallpapers anymore. Within the previous days of Home windows 3.1,...

Google has introduced that it’s chopping off entry to the Sync and “different Google Unique” APIs from all builds besides Google Chrome. It will make the Fedora Chromium construct considerably much less purposeful (together with each different distro packaged Chromium). It’s noteworthy that Google gave the builders of distribution Chromium packages these entry rights again...

Win32 APIs present highly effective performance that allow you to get probably the most out of Home windows in your functions. Whereas these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ builders, different languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings with a view to entry these APIs. In C#, that is generally referred...

It additionally made Apple silicon moderately distinct from all different 64-bit ARM {hardware} when it comes to each CPU core and peripherals. Our Corellium virtualization platform has been offering safety researchers with unparalleled perception into how working techniques and packages work on Apple ARM processors. However within the strategy of creating our virtualization system, we...

The discharge of Apple Silicon-based Macs on the finish of final yr generated a flurry of reports protection and a few surprises on the machine’s efficiency. This put up particulars some background data on the expertise of porting Firefox to run natively on these CPUs. We’ll begin with some background on the Mac transition and...

It was bizarre to personal a Zune in 2005. It’s even weirder to personal a Zune in 2021 — not to mention 16 of them. And but, 27-year-old Conner Woods proudly reveals off his lineup on a kitchen desk. They arrive in all totally different colours, shapes, and sizes, and every could be recognized by...

Apple is again underneath the highlight over labor circumstances in its provide chain following an explosive report from The Data on Thursday that exposed new particulars in regards to the firm’s reluctance to chop ties with suppliers who violate its ethics insurance policies. In keeping with the report, Apple discovered in 2013 that Suyin Electronics,...

This quarter had various work completed, together with however actually not restricted to, in areas regarding all the pieces from a number of architectures corresponding to x86, aarch64, riscv, and ppc64 for each base and ports, over kernel modifications corresponding to vectored aio, routing lookups and multipathing, another random(4) implementation, zstd integration for kernel dumps,...

On fashionable Unix-like techniques reminiscent of FreeBSD, “swapping” refers back to the exercise of paging out the contents of reminiscence to a disk after which paging it again in on demand. The page-out exercise happens in response to a scarcity of free reminiscence within the system: the kernel tries to establish pages of reminiscence that...

Herein, we lay out our plans for evolving Genode. Progress along with this planning will very a lot depend upon the diploma of group help the challenge will obtain. The Challenges web page collects a few of our concepts to advance Genode in varied additional instructions. The street map shouldn’t be fastened. If there may...

The WhatsApp messaging service introduced on Friday that it will delay adjustments to new enterprise options after individuals all over the world criticized the brand new coverage. The Fb-owned firm stated it’s “going to do much more to clear up misinformation round how privateness and safety works on WhatsApp.” Privateness rights activists closely criticized the...