80 stories tagged operating-systems, newest first.
21 points by TheWoollyBully | 77 comments
Personal blog essay by Joshua Morris arguing that operating systems should natively open, render, and edit Markdown files across computers, tablets, and phones.
440 points by privong | 157 comments
Official OpenBSD 8.0 release page with release date, artwork, mirror and errata links, changelog link, and signify public keys.
27 points by erikschoster | 2 comments
A post on the openbsd-misc mailing list archive at marc.info about the release of OpenBSD 8.0 on October 20, 2026.
6 points by gavinhoward | 1 comments
A blog post by Chris Siebenmann discussing how compiler bootstrapping can be affected by operating system changes and other dependencies.
39 points by vahmohh | 9 comments
GitHub repository for Veda, a GPL-3.0 hobby operating system billed as "agentic-native," which builds on Linux and runs in QEMU.
177 points by ghuntley | 89 comments
Geoffrey Huntley blog post recounting a conversation with Justin Cormack about why unikernels are becoming practical again and their security benefits.
38 points by danny00 | 18 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on CRAM, a Linux technique exposing compressed RAM via standard memory semantics instead of a block device, claiming up to 452x faster reads.
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49 points by CharlesW | 12 comments
YouTube video by Arcade Jason demonstrating VECOS, a Windows-like operating system for the Vectrex console running via the UVMC2 cartridge.
17 points by shrub900 | 3 comments
A personal essay arguing that compilers, build systems, and package managers in POSIX-like operating systems fail to share dependency and resource information, missing optimization opportunities.
189 points by romac | 74 comments
Project homepage for FTL, a new userspace-library operating system for clouds with hypervisor-like container isolation and Linux binary compatibility.
179 points by weaksauce | 111 comments
Blog post by Mat Duggan responding to Scott Jenson's talk on desktop UX, arguing for a tmux-centric, terminal-based approach to the desktop OS interface.
57 points by shellpipe | 10 comments
Blog post by Fernando Simões examining page table memory consumption, prompted by Linus Torvalds' 2003 argument for multi-level over hashed page tables.
15 points by nicoloren | 11 comments
GitHub repository for UnoDOS, a hobby operating system under active development targeting pc64 x86-64/UEFI, with Amiga and Apple II directories.
390 points by SquareOrbits | 279 comments
A personal blog post cataloguing bugs the author encountered in Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate, comparing its stability-focused pitch to Snow Leopard.
290 points by fratellobigio | 437 comments
Blog post on sockpuppet.org musing on how AI is reshaping what an operating system is, and announcing the author is leaving Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project.
341 points by metrofun | 95 comments
Haiku project news post announcing the release of Haiku R1/beta6, about two years after the previous beta, with links to release notes and downloads.
322 points by m0do1 | 65 comments
Haiku forum thread about porting the Nvidia open GPU driver for Turing and newer GPUs to Haiku, with user posts on progress including running games.
343 points by exploraz | 78 comments
GitHub repository for You're the OS, a Python/Pygame game where the player acts as an operating system managing processes, memory and I/O events.
361 points by speckx | 55 comments
MIT News article about Fractal, a research kernel built by MIT CSAIL to observe processor internals, which revealed previously unknown behavior in Apple's M1 chip.
995 points by rbanffy | 435 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a proposed amendment exempting Linux from California's upcoming OS age-verification law, by the law's original author.
912 points by andreww591 | 201 comments
The Virtual OS Museum is a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM bundling 1,700+ pre-installed historical and modern operating systems running under emulation.
356 points by bradley_taunt | 262 comments
Official OpenBSD 7.9 release page, released May 19, 2026, with mirror links, errata, changelog, release song, artwork, and signify public keys.
673 points by breve | 522 comments
Windows Central news article reporting that some Microsoft employees are pushing to drop Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirement during setup.
877 points by h0ek | 663 comments
Opinion blog post by Sam Bent criticizing Microsoft's promise to fix Windows 11 after years of adding ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware.
567 points by hadrien01 | 1034 comments
A Windows Insider blog post by Pavan Davuluri at Microsoft about the company's commitment to improving Windows quality.
485 points by enz | 246 comments
A personal blog post on the IT Notes site explaining why the author loves the FreeBSD operating system.
372 points by pjmlp | 370 comments
The Redox OS CONTRIBUTING.md file on GitLab, describing contribution rules including a Certificate of Origin requirement and a ban on LLM-generated contributions.
761 points by WalterSobchak | 649 comments
PC Gamer article on a new California law requiring operating systems, including Linux, to include some form of age verification at account setup.
374 points by aktau | 194 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's LiteBox, an open-source security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution.
1633 points by bobsterlobster | 1288 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
782 points by smurda | 721 comments
Notebookcheck opinion column in which the author describes switching his main desktop from Windows 11 to Linux (Artix) and urges readers to do the same.
421 points by Curiositry | 127 comments
Homepage of Quill OS, an open-source standalone operating system for Rakuten Kobo eReaders, with download, installation, wiki and screenshot links.
401 points by rbanffy | 266 comments
A personal blog post written as a love letter to FreeBSD, praising its coherent base system, boot environments, and long-term stability.
556 points by tanelpoder | 80 comments
A web-based explorer for browsing the Linux kernel source tree from GitHub, with a file tree and a data structures view.
388 points by hexagonal-sun | 125 comments
GitHub repository for Moss, an MIT-licensed Linux-compatible operating system kernel written in Rust.
358 points by vitalnodo | 121 comments
Homepage of Ironclad, a formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel written in SPARK and Ada with POSIX compatibility and MAC.
471 points by kome | 124 comments
Homepage of Visopsys, a small open-source alternative operating system for PCs developed by a single developer since 1997.
428 points by 0xkato | 84 comments
A blog post explaining the Linux boot process step by step, from pressing the power button through firmware and bootloader to the first C code in the kernel.
473 points by josephcsible | 668 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Microsoft is closing workarounds that let users set up Windows 11 with a local account instead of a Microsoft account.
583 points by Wingy | 879 comments
Apple's official product page for macOS Tahoe, the latest version of the Mac operating system, with the tagline "Fresh faced. Timelessly Mac."
444 points by ksec | 89 comments
Homepage of SkiftOS, a hobby operating system written from scratch in C/C++ targeting ARM, x86, and RISC-V, showing its desktop and terminal.
506 points by OlympicMarmoto | 591 comments
An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.
822 points by marcodiego | 479 comments
OSTechNix news article reporting that Linux has reached 5% of the desktop operating system market share in the United States.
520 points by joexbayer | 102 comments
GitHub repository for RetrOS-32, a 32-bit x86 hobby operating system with graphics, multitasking, networking and a C compiler for i386.
432 points by tansanrao | 144 comments
A long blog post examining the history and architecture of Apple's Darwin OS and hybrid XNU kernel, from Mach and BSD roots to macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon.
322 points by adriangrigore | 81 comments
Tailscale blog post describing the effort to port the Tailscale client to the Plan 9 operating system.
343 points by ibobev | 49 comments
The Little Book About OS Development by Erik Helin and Adam Renberg, a free online book guiding readers through writing a simple x86 operating system.
508 points by angristan | 295 comments
OpenBSD project page listing software and security concepts it developed or maintains, such as IPsec, privilege separation, stack protector and W^X, in order of introduction.
942 points by ingve | 108 comments
Intro chapter of an online book that walks through building a small RISC-V operating system from scratch in about 1,000 lines of C.
632 points by JohnAtQNX | 302 comments
BlackBerry QNX Everywhere program page offering free non-commercial licenses for QNX software, tools, and training, including a Raspberry Pi quick start image.
328 points by Klasiaster | 176 comments
GitHub repository for Asterinas, a secure, fast, general-purpose OS kernel written in Rust that provides a Linux-compatible ABI.
394 points by udev4096 | 140 comments
Homepage of Linux From Scratch, a project offering step-by-step instructions for building a custom Linux system from source, with its subprojects listed.
550 points by linkdd | 138 comments
GitHub organization page for Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions, a parody group building software such as an operating system in the Brainfuck esoteric language.
383 points by udev4096 | 40 comments
GitHub repository for phil-opp's blog_os, the source code and posts of the "Writing an OS in Rust" tutorial blog series.
564 points by LorenDB | 488 comments
Julio Merino's Blog System/5 post comparing the design of Windows NT with Unix and asking what made NT advanced and whether that still holds.
466 points by return_0e | 197 comments
Haiku OS forum thread page tracking progress on porting the Firefox browser to HaikuOS.
375 points by conanxin | 229 comments
Plain-text copy of Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay on operating systems, graphical interfaces, and the command line, hosted on a Stanford course site.
350 points by wrycoder | 35 comments
Online edition of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide, a free book on writing Linux kernel modules, with GitHub and PDF links.
320 points by michaelsbradley | 96 comments
GitHub repository for Fusion, a hobby operating system written in the Nim programming language.
486 points by redbell | 248 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Microsoft removed its documentation on switching to a local account in Windows 11, though most workarounds still function.
325 points by JacobAldridge | 73 comments
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam news article announcing that Andrew S. Tanenbaum received the ACM Software System Award.
526 points by doctorshady | 478 comments
How-To Geek opinion article arguing that Windows, with its ads and imposed features, no longer feels like the user's own computer.
344 points by todsacerdoti | 56 comments
Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.
379 points by rickcarlino | 120 comments
GitHub repository for PumpkinOS, a GPL-3.0 licensed open-source re-implementation of the PalmOS operating system.
342 points by ingve | 103 comments
Blog post by Cliff Biffle recounting how two features in the Hubris embedded Rust OS interacted to crash a network switch, and how the bug was found.
402 points by eduction | 225 comments
GitHub repository for Helios, Oxide Computer's illumos-based operating system distribution that powers the Oxide Rack.
680 points by Uriopass | 294 comments
Blog post introducing Maestro, a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust.
428 points by luismedel | 152 comments
Project homepage for Essence, a from-scratch desktop operating system with its own tabbed window manager and applications, linking to GitLab, Patreon and Discord.
394 points by mfiguiere | 561 comments
Apple Newsroom announcement from September 26, 2023 that macOS Sonoma is now available as a free software update for Mac.
366 points by mr_o47 | 25 comments
An interactive, zoomable SVG map of the Linux kernel showing its subsystems, layers, and functions with links to source code.
347 points by sbt567 | 115 comments
GitHub repository for Fomos, an experimental operating system written in Rust with apps like a console, cursor, and C app support.
567 points by drfreckles | 103 comments
Blog post by Pier-Luc Brault introducing a game where the player acts as an operating system, scheduling processes and managing memory pages.
458 points by ingve | 112 comments
A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.
1098 points by archmaster | 275 comments
GitHub repository for "Putting the You in CPU," a technical explainer by @kognise on how computers run programs from start to finish, published at cpu.land.
480 points by cglong | 408 comments
Linuxiac article reporting that, per StatCounter data, Linux reached a 3% desktop market share by June 2023.
559 points by dceddia | 509 comments
Tweet by Julio Merino showing a video of a ~2000-era 600MHz PC running Windows NT 3.51 and opening apps very quickly.
698 points by JoelMcCracken | 112 comments
A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.
376 points by LinuxBender | 166 comments
The Register article on Microsoft testing ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu and seeking user feedback, with mixed reactions from users.
514 points by Amorymeltzer | 398 comments
Blog post on birchtree.me about Windows 11 design and annoyances; the page failed to load with a Cloudflare 522 connection timeout error.
918 points by alexzeitler | 710 comments
Personal blog post by Thomas Bandt recounting his history with Windows and why setting it up as his son's first computer didn't work out.