#operating system

A Tiny OS for a Tiny Board

As microntrollers have become ever more powerful, we have started to see an increasing number of operating systems written to take advantage of this extra power. Usually they’re aimed at …read more

Hackaday · EN

The early history of the UNIX “more” command

Dan Halbert, writing on danhalbert.org, tells how he came to write the Unix more command in 1978 as a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley. The piece first ran on comp.society.folklore in 1994 and then in The ANALYTICAL ENGINE. Berkeley already had a small program called cr3 that printed 24 lines and rang the terminal […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

GNUstep Desktop: a NeXT user interface for modern Linux

GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is a Linux desktop environment that gives you a NeXT/OpenStep-like experience. It runs on the GNUstep framework, which is an open implementation of the OpenStep API in Objective-C, and pulls together apps and utilities the GNUstep community has written over the years. The code is compact enough that one person can follow […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Developing retro-GUIs for Win3.11 and OS/2

Chris, writing at chrisdevblog.com, built GUI apps for Windows 3.11 and OS/2 Warp 3 to control his microcontroller projects on real period hardware. He started with Borland Delphi 1 from 1995, the first and last Delphi that made 16-bit Windows programs. That worked right away, so he switched to Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 from 1993, […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Windows 95 is still being used to sort eggs in Germany

PC Gamer reports on a chicken farm in Germany that still runs its egg-counting machine on Windows 95. The farm, near Duddeldorf, has a 40 by 40 metre sorting setup driven by software written for an operating system that turned 30 last month. Microsoft’s extended support for Windows 95 ended in 2001. The reason is […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is bringing this classic feature back

Abhishek Prakash writes at It’s FOSS that Linux Mint is bringing hibernation back. The Mint team previewed a new Sleep Modes page in its System Administration tool, planned for Mint 27 in December. It turns hibernation on and sets it up without hand-editing config files. Suspend keeps your open apps and windows in RAM and […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

The Linux 7.4 merge window is easily the largest in kernel history

Michael Larabel, writing at Phoronix, reports that the Linux 7.4 merge window is the biggest one the kernel has ever had. The merge window is the two week stretch at the start of each kernel cycle when maintainers send in their changes for the next release. After it closes, the work moves to release candidates […]

Adafruit Blog · EN