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Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

1 day ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding a summit with security vendors last year, Microsoft is poised to release a private preview of Windows changes that will move antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) apps out of the Windows kernel.
PNG gets its first specification update in 20 years

1 day ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress stalled for over two decades. Did you know the , Library and Archives Canada, and the National Archives of Australia recommend PNG? It is important that we keep PNG current and competitive. After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor![…]With these titans behind it, the image format is back with full momentum. Work has already begun on the next two PNG spec updates.
IceWM 3.8.0 released

3 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits. About The AuthorFollow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
Microsoft grants stay of execution for Windows 10 users: use OneDrive, and get one additional free year of security updates

3 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

For a while now I’ve been wondering if Microsoft would blink when it comes to Windows 10’s rapidly approaching end of support date. Only a few weeks ago, Microsoft at the very least twitched by extending support for Microsoft Office on Windows 10, which should’ve been an indication of what was to come. Today, Microsoft actually blinked: regular consumers wishing to keep using Windows 10 after support ends in October will now be able to sign up for an additional year of security updates.
If you want to keep using KDE and GNOME, you’re going to have to move to Wayland

4 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

With the transition from X11 to Wayland in full swing, from popular distributions removing X11 sessions altogether and the two major desktop environments planning for the removal of X11 support as well, there’s a ton of questions people are dealing with. Both the KDE and GNOME project published detailed blog posts about the matter. First, KDE’s Nathan Graham makes it very clear that KDE Plasma’s X11 sessions continues to be maintained.
Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project

4 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a “framekernel architecture”. The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by trying to get the best from both monolithic and microkernel designs.
The X Window System didn’t immediately have X terminals

4 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X’s network transparency so that only the X server had to run on the X terminal itself, with all of your terminal windows and other programs running on a server somewhere and just displaying on the X terminal.
postmarketOS v25.06 released with systemd

4 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

This is it, the one that adds systemd to postmarketOS! We have talked about the decision at length on this blog, make sure to read the initial announcement if this is the first time you are hearing about this. ↫ postmarketOS v25.06 release announcementWhile adding systemd to postmarketOS is certainly the tentpole feature of this release, it also updates the various user interfaces – GNOME’s and KDE’s mobile shells and applications – and moves to Alpine Linux 3.22 as its base.
YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

6 days ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

Over the past few months, YouTube has been trying another round of anti-adblock measures. Currently the anti-adblock stuff is being A/B tested, and one of my accounts is in the experimental group. I wrote a filter that partially avoids one of the anti-adblock measures, fake buffering, on uBlock Origin (and Brave browser, since it uses the same filter rules).
Cosmoe, BeOS/Haiku on Linux, returns from 18 year hiatus

1 week ago | osnews.com | Thom Holwerda

It’s 2025, and we’re going to talk about BeOS, AtheOS, Cosmoe, and OpenBeOS, all in one news item, right here, right now, on OSNews. In the very early 2000s, Cosmoe was a unique project that started out as a merger of the AtheOS userland with the Linux kernel. AtheOS, in turn, was one of the quintessential hobby operating systems of the golden age of the advanced hobby operating systems, the early 2000s.