We've already covered how California has a new operating system age-checking law coming into force next year - but many more US states also have plans.

If you don't need'em, skip installing'em.

Open source operating systems are wrestling with how to comply with age-checking bills.

California has new legislation, which means that any provider of an operating system must ascertain the age of the user ...

Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps.

In a slowly growing show of support for the operating system, Nvidia has launched a beta version of GeForce Now for Linux users. The app, which is available for users on Ubuntu 24.04 (and likely many ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...

Pop!_OS is a new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution from System76, flaunting the COSMIC Desktop Environment and available on either a PC of your choice or one of many US-made laptops or desktops. While ...

The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

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