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Beyond the limits of physical VRAM
48+ min ago (546+ words) Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With that work now accepted by upstream, Vock decided to turn…...
IBM i (OS/400): the database operating system
1+ week, 6+ day ago (481+ words) Today, I wanted to show you one of the most fascinating and surprising operating systems ever created. It’s not another Unix, Linux, or Windows. It is an architecture that went its own way and proved that systems engineering design can…...
Anos: a hobby microkernel operating system written in C
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (245+ words) Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU-Linux) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines. Anos currently comprises the STAGE3 microkernel, SYSTEM user-mode supervisor, and a base set of servers implementing the base…...
Undo in Vi and its successors
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) So vi only has one level of undo, which is simply no longer fit for the times we live in now, and also wholly unnecessary given even the least powerful devices that might need to run vi probably have more…...
SvarDOS: an open-source DOS distribution
6+ mon, 22+ hour ago (397+ words) Aside from a set of regular installation images for a variety of floppy sizes, there’s also a dedicated “talking” build that uses the PROVOX screen reader and Braille ‘n Speak synthesizer at the COM1 port. It’s rare for a smaller project…...
Haiku gets accelerated NVIDIA graphics driver
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (4+ words) Monthly Archive:: January 2026 OSnews...
A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (670+ words) In 1979, VisiCalc was released for the Apple II, and to this day, many consider it the very first spreadsheet program. Considering just how important spreadsheets have become since then – Excel rules the world – the first spreadsheet program is definitely an…...
Haiku gets new Go port
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (574+ words) There’s a new Haiku monthly activity report, and this one’s a true doozy. Let’s start with the biggest news. The most notable development in November was the introduction of a port of the Go programming language, version 1.18. This is still…...
On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp VisiOn
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (797+ words) I would think most of us here at OSNews are aware of VisiOn, the graphical multitasking operating system for the IBM PC which was one of the first operating systems with a graphical user interface, predating Windows, GEM, the Mac,…...
Setting up a combined 68k/PA-RISC HP-UX 9 cluster
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (604+ words) 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 Motorola 68030 processor at 16.7 MHz. It doesn’t come with a hard drive or even…...