OSNews fundrasier progress

⁂ A little progress bar to keep track of our fundraiser! ⁂

➡️ Donate through Ko-Fi ➡️ Donate through SEPA transfer ➡️ Why a fundraiser?

Note that I have to update it manually, and that it includes both Ko-Fi donations, as well as direct bank transfers. Yes, if your country is part of SEPA (EU, more or less), you can now do a safe direct bank transfer using IBAN to a dedic

https://www.osnews.com/story/145011/osnews-fundrasier-progress/

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The Virtual OS Museum

This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.

A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to quickly revert broken installations back to a working state. Hypervisor ins

https://www.osnews.com/story/145006/the-virtual-os-museum/

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The 21 years and 20000 posts OSNews fundraiser: a euro for every post

To celebrate my 21 years and 20000 posts as OSNews' managing editor, it's time for a massive fundraiser: a euro for every story I've posted over the past 21 years. Because OSNews is ad-free and independent, I rely entirely on your donations and support for my income and OSNews' continued survival. Yo

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

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21 years and 20000 posts later

Almost exactly 21 years ago, in June 2005, at a mere 20 years old, I took over the managing editor role at OSNews from Eugenia. I had already published a few articles in the years prior, and had given Eugenia enough confidence to suggest me as her replacement. It was, and is, a great honour.

In those 21 years and more than 20000 posts, I've seen a lot of beautiful things.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144962/21-years-and-20000-posts-later/

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#Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule, but They Run #NetBSD So They Can't

#osnews #tech #technews #bsd #macos #news

https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-they-cant/

Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system

From 2024, but still accurate and interesting:

Plan 9 is unique in this sense that everything the system needs is covered by the base install. This includes the compilers, graphical environment, window manager, text editors, ssh client, torrent client, web server, and the list goes on. Nearly everything a user can do with the system is avai

https://www.osnews.com/story/144752/plan-9-is-a-uniquely-complete-operating-system/

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Anos: a hobby microkernel operating system written in C

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 of the operating system. There is a (WIP) too

https://www.osnews.com/story/144750/anos-a-hobby-microkernel-operating-system-written-in-c/

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TinyOS: ultra-lightweight RTOS for IoT devices

An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained IoT and embedded devices. Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling.
↫ TinyOS GitHub page

Written in C, open source, and supports ARM and RISC-V.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144735/tinyos-ultra-lightweight-rtos-for-iot-devices/

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Just try Plan 9 already

I will not pass up an opportunity to make you talk about Plan 9, so let's focus on Acme.

Acme is remarkable for what it represents: a class of application that leverages a simple, text-based GUI to create a compelling model of interacting with all of the tools available in the Unix (or Plan 9) environment. Cox calls it an “integrating development environment,” distinguishing it from th

https://www.osnews.com/story/144590/just-try-plan-9-already/

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