Stories by lproven

Memtest86 7: Essential for PC troubleshooting, even if you only run Windows

Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)

86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all 9 files of the oldest known MS-DOS

Beginning OLIB: An uneducated look at Psion's proprietary OOPS C

In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries

Tilde, a text editor for the Linux console that doesn't work like it's 1976

War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape

The Register looks at the first release of Fedora Asahi Remix

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121

Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition

Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update

Systemd 255 – release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – is here with improved UKI support

Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release

Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17: Irish Ubuntu metadistros release betas

A modern $400 MIPS workstation for a modern (government) era (2020)

PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop

Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before Linux 0.01

Systemd release 0b11111111 (0xFF) is here with improved UKI support

Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany – good and Electron-free – hit milestones

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