Latest about Operating Systems
Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions
One less bloatware on Windows 11.
Windows 8.1 emerges as the performance winner after six generations of the OS are pitted against each other
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.
Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account
Nothing like the good ol' days.
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,
Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system
Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser
Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows
The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.
52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system
The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah.
Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers
In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.
