Operating Systems

The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.

Legendary Windows developer Dave Plummer has been busy finessing his revamped Task Manager, now dubbed TMOG.

Xinuos plans to petition for a full‑bench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBM’s lawyers.

The software interferes with core system files.

It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.

China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.

VLC developers say a Windows 11 issue involving Microsoft Defender can interfere with the media player's plugin cache and cause unusually long playback delays.

5x more memory consumption than macOS.

But there's a (small) downside.

Microsoft wants you to forget that it ever suggested 32GB of RAM, as its base-model laptops only come with 8GB of RAM.