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Show HN: An Open Source XR(AR/VR) Operating System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 05:09:43

Your World Just Got an Upgrade. Meet XenevaOS. Tired of your amazing ideas being stuck behind a flat screen? We were too! That's why we dreamed up XenevaOS, the AR-native operating system that literally brings computing into your space. Forget old-school; we built our own brain ('AURORA' Kernel) to flawlessly blend augmented reality, AI smarts, and mind-blowing spatial interactions. Unlike other operating systems that you might've seen, XenevaOS unleashes vibrant holographic interfaces and rea

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Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:55:24

Project Goals Our goal is to create a user environment designed from the ground up around the things people do with computers: create, collaborate, and learn. Without implementation details like files and operating-system processes polluting the computer's UI, Étoilé users will be able to: have revision history for all objects in the system collaborate with other people on any type of document (text, drawing, code, etc.) shape their own workflow by combining the provided Services use a sys

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? I debunked 7 Linux myths so you can switch with confidence

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-11 16:30:21

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-12 21:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 09:46:26

Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own”. I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it’s moot. “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own” When Google restricts y

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Apple Working on All-New Operating System

news.ycombinator.com Joe Rossignol 2025-11-11 03:41:47

Apple is developing an all-new operating system codenamed "Charismatic," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. This is likely Apple's long-rumored "homeOS" operating system. In a report this week, Gurman said both Apple's rumored smart home hub in 2026 and tabletop robot in 2027 will run the new operating system. He said the software platform will blend elements of tvOS and watchOS. For example, he expects there to be a hexagonal grid of apps, just like on the Apple Watch. The platform larg

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Running macOS on an iPad? Jailbreak project makes progress

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-24 17:29:34

Apple may not be merging macOS and iPadOS, but the two version 26 operating systems share a lot of similarities. Still, the quest to actually port the Mac operating system to the iPad continues. As Steve Troughton-Smith suggests Mastodon, “hackintosh” may soon refer to an iPad running macOS and not a homegrown Mac clone. “Apple may not bring macOS to iPad, but it looks like we’re getting to a point where people can hackintosh it together on a jailbroken device anyway,” he writes. In a series

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My 5 favorite Linux distros for home office desktops - and I've tried them all

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-21 17:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've worked from home for over a decade. Without Linux as my primary operating system, I'm not sure how I would be able to do the things I do with the level of simplicity and reliability that I've achieved with the open-source OS. Linux makes a lot of things possible for me that Windows and MacOS cannot handle. Also: The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed But which distributions would I recommend for people who want an oper

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China Working On Levitating Train That Could Get You From New York to Chicago in Two Hours

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-18 04:45:41

As the United States struggles to keep its major cities connected by even the most barebones rail systems, China is screaming into the future with the development of a levitating bullet train. Called "maglev," short for "magnetic levitation," the train system is designed to levitate via magnets as opposed to wheels. Maglev systems can reach higher speeds much more efficiently than their wheeled counterparts, though the infrastructure needed to run them is incredibly expensive. While there are

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[Open Thread] Google bought Android 20 years ago, did it make it better or worse?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:31:42

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been 20 years to the day since Google made what you might consider its “best deal ever” by acquiring a small, unknown startup called Android, Inc. The founders, Andy Rubin and Chris White, had first set out to build an operating system for digital cameras, but when they failed to attract investors in 2004, they pivoted to creating a mobile operating system, and went pitching their new project looking for investor support. Google’s Larry Page saw the signs

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This Linux distro combines the best parts of Windows and MacOS - and it's gorgeous

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-21 22:17:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET There are so many Linux distributions on the market, and they range from the command line only all the way to functioning works of art. The majority of distros fall somewhere in the middle, of course, and that's perfectly fine because most users prefer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. That's why the likes of Linux Mint, ZorinOS, elementaryOS, and Ubuntu are so popular. But every once in a while, a team releases an update to its distribution that reminds you that Linux

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7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-12 00:00:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

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New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-13 03:16:09

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

news.ycombinator.com .Wp_Post_Author_Widget .Wp-Post-Author-Meta .Awpa-Display-Name 2026-02-14 06:54:05

A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away called “the ’90s,” we still believed that the future of computing would be decided based on pure technical merit. What naivety! It was an era when an operating system could make you fall in love at first boot, when opening four videos simultaneously without hiccups seemed more magical than pulling a rabbit from a hat. BeOS wa

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Software 3.0 is powered by LLMs, prompts, and vibe coding - what you need know

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-02-27 08:00:04

dan/Getty Are large language models (LLMs) our new operating systems? If so, they are changing the definition of what we consider to be software. Also: 8 ways to write better ChatGPT prompts - and get the results you want faster Several analogies are used to describe the impact of fast-evolving AI technologies, such as utilities, time-sharing systems, and operating systems. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former senior director of AI at Tesla, believes that an operating system is th

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How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

news.ycombinator.com In 2026-03-08 20:57:24

# source code sandboxing Sandboxing is when a developer limits available system resources to a program from within its own source code. A classic example is calling chroot(2) to change the root file-system to an empty directory so that the program cannot scribble into the root file-system. int main(void) { /* Program has full file-system access. */ chroot("/var/empty"); chdir("/"); /* File-system root re-rooted in /var/empty. */ int fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); /* Tried to open /var/empty

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I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-14 07:22:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET There are so many Linux distributions on the market, and they range from the command line only all the way to functioning works of art. The majority of distros fall somewhere in the middle, of course, and that's perfectly fine because most users prefer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. That's why the likes of Linux Mint, ZorinOS, elementaryOS, and Ubuntu are so popular. But every once in a while, a team releases an update to its distribution that reminds you that Linux

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