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VMS/XDE: an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and Windows/WSL
VMS/XDE is an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and WIndows (via WSL). It provides a familiar user experience for OpenVMS developers working in Linux and Windows yet offers 100%...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Plasma Mobile 6.5 keeps improving
As part of the KDE Plasma 6.5 release, we also got a new release of Plasma Mobile. As there's a lot of changes, improvements, and new features in Plasma Mobile...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Tribblix m38 released
Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has released a new version. Milestone 38 isn't the most consequential release of all time, but it does...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Setting up a combined 68k/PA-RISC HP-UX 9 cluster
Jonathan Pallant got lucky and managed to score a massive haul of '90s UNIX workstations, one of which was an HP 9000 Model 340, a HP-UX workstation built around a...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Ironclad 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 released, adds RISC-V support
We've talked about Ironclad a few times, but there's been two new releases since the 0.6.0 release we covered last, so let's see what the project's been up to. As...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Mac OS 7.6 and 8 for CHRP releases discovered
For those of us unaware - unlikely on OSNews, but still - for a hot minute in the second half of the '90s, Apple licensed its Mac OS to OEMs,...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege. We have implemented support for all source release builds to use...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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LXQt 2.3.0 released
LXQt, the other Qt desktop environment, released version 2.3.0. This new version comes roughly six months after 2.2.0, and continues the project's adoption of Wayland. The enhancement of Wayland support...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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WINE gaming in FreeBSD Jails with Bastille
FreeBSD offers a whole bunch of technologies and tools to make gaming on the platform a lot more capable than you'd think, and this article by Pertho dives into the...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Tape containing UNIX v4 found
A unique and very important find at the University of Utah: while cleaning out some storage rooms, the staff at the university discovered a tape containing a copy of UNIX...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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There is no such thing as a 3.5 inch floppy disc
Wait, what? The term 3.5 inch floppy disc is in fact a misnomer. Whilst the specification for 5.25 inch floppy discs employs Imperial units, the later specification for the smaller floppy discs...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Servo ported to Redox
Redox keeps improving every month, and this past one is certainly a banger. The big news this past month is that Servo, the browser engine written in Rust, has been...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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MacOS 26’s new icons are a step backwards
On the new MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple has mandated that all application icons fit into their prescribed squircle. No longer can icons have distinct shapes, nor even any fun frame-breaking accessories. Should...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A lost IBM PC/AT model? Analyzing a newfound old BIOS
Some people not only have a very particular set of skills, but also a very particular set of interests that happen to align with those skills perfectly. When several unidentified...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: getting two processors to share the same memory
We talked about the Z80 SoftCard, Microsoft's first hardware product, back in 2023, but thanks to Raymond Chen and Nicole Branagan, we've got some more insights. The Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard was a...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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bluetui and restterm: two beautiful TUI applications
There's something incredibly enticing and retrofuturistic about a well-designed TUI, or text-based user interface. There's an endless list number of these, but two crossed my path these past few days,...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Sculpt OS 25.10 released
In the light of this year's roadmap focus on "rigidity, clarity, performance", Sculpt OS 25.10 looks the same as the version 25.04 but might feel different as it includes countless under-the-hood improvements...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Debian to add hard Rust dependency to APT
It seems like a number of Debian ports are going to face difficult times over the coming months. Debian developer Julian Andres Klode has sent a message to the Debian...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Microsoft breaks Task Manager in Windows 11, hard
Let's take a look at how things are going at Microsoft, whose CEO claimed a few months ago that 30% of their code was generated by "AI". After installing Windows...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Configuring cwm on OpenBSD
For those unfamiliar, cwm is the Calm Window Manager. It’s part of the OpenBSD base distribution as one of the native window managers, along with an old version of fvwm...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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V7 pwd, converted to modern POSIX systems
This is a conversion of the original V7 pwd program for use on POSIX systems (tested primarily on Linux). This is mostly of historical interest -- modern systems have a...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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AMD to enter ARM market with new "Sound Wave" APU
AMD is expanding its processor portfolio beyond the x86 architecture with its first ARM-based APU, internally known as “Sound Wave.” The chip’s existence was uncovered through customs import records, confirming...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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How to Resolve 'PST File is not an Outlook Data File' Issue?
Many Outlook users encounter the error message - “PST file is not an Outlook data file”, while trying to open or import a PST file into the application on another...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Removing obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition
Gaming isn't something we talk about very often here on OSNews, but I think this piece of news is actually a rare piece of good, welcome news from this industry....
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October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
After the release of Windows 95, with its brand new and incredibly influential graphical user interface, it was only a matter of time before this new taskbar, Start menu, and...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM