I love Windows XP, especially for creativity without distractions*. I'm currently learning how to use InDesign for yet another project (I can't stop project-ing (not to be confused with projecting!)).
I quite like this Socket FM2 PC too. It may not be the quickest XP build, but it's still performant and its iGPU is decent. Better yet, it's different! 
Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support
Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready
'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed — asserts that 'everything' was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s
Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat
🚀 ReactOS: Misja budowy wolnego systemu operacyjnego trwa!
Czy wiedzieliście, że istnieje projekt, który od zera buduje system operacyjny w 100% kompatybilny z architekturą NT (Windows), ale bez ani jednej linii kodu od Microsoftu? To ReactOS!
🕰️ Jak to się zaczęło? (Geneza)
Wszystko ruszyło w 1996 roku jako projekt „FreeWin95”
👉 Sprawdź szczegóły: reactos.org
Pobierz: https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/files/
#ReactOS #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #TechHistory #OperatingSystems #WindowsAlternative
Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11 — fixes broken March preview update rollout from last week
Latest Windows 11 update is broken, refuses to install — Microsoft pulls latest update over missing files error
DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
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