The Reg FOSS desk is very fond of Haiku, as he was of BeOS itself – as his BeOS 5 review from 2000 shows. Almost exactly ...

Another interesting aspect is that Ghostty is mainly implemented in the Zig programming language. Zig is one of several 21st ...

An unexpected announcement came along at the start of 2025: the addition of another new language to the GCC suite. Well, we ...

Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft's lead architect on the OS/2 project, has been rediscovered. To modern eyes, it ...

OS/2 flopped because the company paying for the work, IBM, designed it for machines that it had already sold. It did not want ...

Review HMD's Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back, allowing some nifty peripherals, including gaming controls, ...

Microsoft, of course, built its business on BASIC. It supplied the original MITS Altair 8800's BASIC, and indeed The Register interviewed that version's co-author Monte Davidoff in 2001. Microsoft ...

New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.… Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is the latest version of Fedora for Macs ...

The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update Comment The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works ...

With its recent switch to a different kernel, SvarDOS moves from being a distro of FreeDOS to greater independence.… Until recently, the the SvarDOS project was essentially a distribution of FreeDOS.

A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel A fresh release of the minimalist and very lightweight Alpine Linux is here, with support for Chinese LoongArch64 CPUs.… As usual for Alpine ...

Two months after Liam Payne died at his Argentina hotel, one of the five people charged in connection with his death has been ...