Interesting. I remember this fiasco well.
"A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate"
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-20-bytes-of-code-that-fixed-antennagate/
How old is your main computer's operating system?
Paste your `ls -lrt /`!
Or whatever else is relevant.
Mine's #Fedora installed in 2013. Same laptop.
$ ls -lrt /
total 86
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Jun 27 2013 lost+found
Microsoft fixes Windows 11’s broken "Update and Shut Down" option.
A long-standing bug where "update and shut down" would restart instead of powering off is finally addressed in the latest Dev & Beta builds. 
The fix should roll out to all users soon—ending two years of user frustration. 
Ich bin bei #Windows schon so viel am #troubleshooting. Wie soll das dann erst mit #Linux werden…? #OS #operatingsystem #Betriebssystem
The first “official” version of #Linux was released to the public. 
<(^) <(") ('v')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
#34YearsofLinux #CakeDay #Distro #FLOSS #GNUplusLinux #Kernel #LinusTorvalds #Linux1991 #OnThisDay #OS #RMS #TuxTurns34
@philcowans 
Time Reshared, mentioned in the previous toot, is a rare retrocomputing gem: a new blog that explores time-sharing operating systems.
@eruwero @restorante @Zenie @weavejester Right, that’s the analogy I was pointing at — a #shell is an interpreter, processes are its “functions.”
The key difference is that in the #Unix model, the #OS enforces the separation: each process is isolated, communicates through defined streams, and can be swapped out independently. In #Emacs, #Lisp functions share one runtime. Both are composable, but the guarantees differ.
@eruwero
I get that view — #Emacs can feel like a universal interface to the system, and its #Lisp functions are composable in their own right.
Where I see the #Unix philosophy diverge is in the boundary: tools designed as separate executables, with contracts enforced by the #OS, versus composition inside a single runtime. Both routes achieve interoperability, but one leans on external guarantees, the other on internal extensibility.
Google confirms plans to merge Android & ChromeOS under “Project Aluminium” 
Goal: unify mobile & PC platforms with a shared OS, powered by Qualcomm chips and Gemini AI 
Aimed at creating a seamless ecosystem across phones, tablets, and laptops 
Android PCs are on the horizon — more competition for Windows & macOS 
FreeBSD Project isn't ready to let AI commit Code just yet.
The FreeBSD Project's Status Report for the second quarter of 2025 contains updates from various sub-teams that are working on improving the FreeBSD OS, including separate sub-projects such as enabling FreeBSD apps to run on Linux, support for Solaris-style Extended Attributes and for Apple's legacy HFS+ file system….
24 Plan 9 Boot Camp participants are at it this morning knocking out the first challenge
Is this going to be Microsoft's first vibe update?
Microsoft's Windows 11 2025 update starts rolling out today (but don't expect anything new)
An old #tutorial on #OSDev that is still interesting:
“How To Create An OS From Scratch”, Carlos Fenollosa (https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420173
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/cmlr35/how_create_os_from_scratch
Amazon Launches Vegas OS, Its Android Replacement For Fire TV With No Sideloading - Amazon is replacing Android on new Fire TV hardware with its own Vega OS, debuting... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/30/2225237/amazon-launches-vegas-os-its-android-replacement-for-fire-tv-with-no-sideloading?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #os
“LLMは次世代のOS” アリババクラウドが描く「人工超知能（ASI）構想」とは
Do you have a favourite Linux distribution?
I currently run CachyOS on my main computer, Linux mint in my surface pro 3 and Ubuntu on the servers.
A new version of the #VOA #CLI and #library is out! 
https://crates.io/crates/voa/0.2.0
In this version we add the `voa list` and `voa verify` subcommands for listing of verifiers and verification of #OS #artifacts.
With it, we introduced experimental #OpenPGP support.
A new version of the #OpenPGP backend for #VOA is out.
https://crates.io/crates/voa-openpgp/0.2.0
In version 0.2.0 we have added the first experimental support for the verification of #OS artifacts.
