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Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro
Article URL: https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673264 Points: 83 Comments: 83...
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What is Plan 9?
Article URL: https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html0.1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667675 Points: 36 Comments: 4...
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El pequeño gigante: Cómo un sistema operativo cambió mi forma de ver la informática
Recuerdo perfectamente la primera vez que tuve una Raspberry Pi en mis manos. Parecía más un juguete o un componente suelto que un ordenador real. Mi primera re...
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Google VP says existing Chromebooks may upgrade to Android ‘stack,’ ChromeOS support will continue
The future of ChromeOS is a bit messy at the moment, with Google’s exact plans for the future of Chromebooks and a new Android base being somewhat of a mystery....
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I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my...
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macOS 26 windows are hard to resize because they aren’t really rounded
One of the things I noticed after upgrading to macOS 26 was that I would sometimes fail when trying to resize windows – I’d tried to grab the corner, but nothin...
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The Care and Feeding of Interrupt Handlers
The Care and Feeding of Interrupt Handlers Dear diary Today I decided to give my embryonic operating system a voice. Not literally—that would be terrifying—but...
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Separate Stack for separate Thread.
Threads & Processes Core Concept Each thread needs its own stack, but threads within a process share code, data, and the heap. The OS kernel orchestrates every...
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Pipes - Most minimal form of inter process communication
Introduction When you need to transfer data between two processes, direct access is not allowed by the operating system. This isolation protects one process fr...
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Linux File System Architecture: A Deep Dive into VFS, Inodes, and Storage
Introduction “In Linux, everything is a file.” We hear this quote often, but do we truly understand what it means? This concept is the core design philosophy o...
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Windows vs Linux - Which Operating System Should You Choose?
What Is Windows? Why people like Windows - Easy to learn and use - Supports almost all popular software - Best platform for gaming - Strong hardware compatibil...