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I’ve got a feeling 2026 is finally gonna be the year of the Linux desktop, so here’s my list of recommendations, ranked from 1 being my favorite recommendation to 10 still worth checking out.
1. https://linuxmint.com
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"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

Ubuntu Touch is an important project for a freer future for mobile platforms, but current alternative operating systems are simpler to use at the moment.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-ubuntu-touch-on-a-pixel-3a-phone/

from my link log —
Parallel threads in Racket v9.0.
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/parallel-threads.html
saved 2025-11-23 https://

Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a "tinted" option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast (John Voorhees/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-releases-26-1-updates-…

Apple Releases 26.1 Updates to Its Operating Systems
Today, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial “bug fixes and feature enhancements,” but it was iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 that received the most changes that are likely to be noticed by users. Liquid Glass: Tinted Let’s start with iOS 26.1 because most of

Maintaining accurate timing in virtual machines has always been a challenge. Especially on hosts with many VMs.
Here's a clever solution, hopefully coming soon to a hypervisor or OS near you.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/vmclock/

Securing Operating Systems Through Fine-grained Kernel Access Limitation for IoT Systems
Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology), Likun Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
ht…

Securing Operating Systems Through Fine-grained Kernel Access Limitation for IoT Systems
With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), it is gaining a lot of attention. It is important to secure the embedded systems with low overhead. The Linux Seccomp is widely used by developers to secure the kernels by blocking the access of unused syscalls, which introduces less overhead. However, there are no systematic Seccomp configuration approaches for IoT applications without the help of developers. In addition, the existing Seccomp configuration approaches are coarse-grained, which c…

from my link log —
Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems.
https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
saved 2025-12-08 https://dotat.at/:/S89W…

GitHub - pguyot/Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems
NewtonOS running on other operating systems. Contribute to pguyot/Einstein development by creating an account on GitHub.

The DISTANT Design for Remote Transmission and Steering Systems for Planetary Robotics
Cristina Luna, Alba Guerra, Almudena Moreno, Manuel Esquer, Willy Roa, Mateusz Krawczak, Robert Popela, Piotr Osica, Davide Nicolis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05981

The DISTANT Design for Remote Transmission and Steering Systems for Planetary Robotics
Planetary exploration missions require robust locomotion systems capable of operating in extreme environments over extended periods. This paper presents the DISTANT (Distant Transmission and Steering Systems) design, a novel approach for relocating rover traction and steering actuators from wheel-mounted positions to a thermally protected warm box within the rover body. The design addresses critical challenges in long-distance traversal missions by protecting sensitive components from thermal c…

"Micro Live's Fred Harris considers how daunting computers can be to novice users. He chats to psychologist Professor David Canter, who notes how finding your way around a computer system can be frustrating and unintuitive. Professor Canter visits the Barbican Centre, which proves an excellent metaphor for navigating the endless corridors of unfriendly operating systems."

UK House of Lords must be abolished. It's an undemocratic institution, trying to remove the right to have an unlocked computer with an OS under user control.
They're proposing that devices for use in the UK have "tamper-proof system software" that prevents "viewing of CSAM".
It's a noble goal on the surface, but it effectively outlaws devices that don't reliably spy on everything people have on screen. It outlaws open source operating systems a…

Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #os #computing

Probabilistic Control Barrier Functions: Safety in Probability for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems
Pol Mestres, Blake Werner, Ryan K. Cosner, Aaron D. Ames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01501

Probabilistic Control Barrier Functions: Safety in Probability for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems
Control systems operating in the real world face countless sources of unpredictable uncertainties. These random disturbances can render deterministic guarantees inapplicable and cause catastrophic safety failures. To overcome this, this paper proposes a method for designing safe controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems that retain probabilistic guarantees of safety. To do this we modify the traditional notion of a control barrier function (CBF) to explicitly account for these stochastic…

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[1/1]:
- Neuralink: Fast LLM Inference on Smartphones with Neuron Co-Activation Linking
Tuowei Wang, Ruwen Fan, Minxing Huang, Zixu Hao, Kun Li, Ting Cao, Youyou Lu, Yaoxue Zhang, Ju Ren

A Review of Software for Designing and Operating Quantum Networks
Robert J. Hayek, Joaquin Chung, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00203 https://

A Review of Software for Designing and Operating Quantum Networks
Quantum network protocol development is crucial to realizing a production-grade network that can support distributed sensing, secure communication, and utility-scale quantum computation. However, the transition from laboratory demonstration to deployable networks requires software implementations of architectures and protocols tailored to the unique constraints of quantum systems. This paper reviews the current state of software implementations for quantum networks, organized around the three-p…

@… did you know, that you were quoted by the De Programmatica Ipsum magazine?
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/return-to-innocence/

Bayesian Self-Calibration and Parametric Channel Estimation for 6G Antenna Arrays
Patrick H\"odl, Jakob M\"oderl, Erik Leitinger, Klaus Witrisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11628

Bayesian Self-Calibration and Parametric Channel Estimation for 6G Antenna Arrays
Accurate channel estimation is essential for both high-rate communication and high-precision sensing in 6G wireless systems. However, a major performance limitation arises from calibration mismatches when operating phased-array antennas under real-world conditions. To address this issue, we propose to integrate antenna element self-calibration into a variational sparse Bayesian learning (VSBL) algorithm for parametric channel estimation. We model antenna gain and phase deviations as latent vari…

Online Matching via Reinforcement Learning: An Expert Policy Orchestration Strategy
Chiara Mignacco, Matthieu Jonckheere, Gilles Stoltz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06515 https://…

Online Matching via Reinforcement Learning: An Expert Policy Orchestration Strategy
Online matching problems arise in many complex systems, from cloud services and online marketplaces to organ exchange networks, where timely, principled decisions are critical for maintaining high system performance. Traditional heuristics in these settings are simple and interpretable but typically tailored to specific operating regimes, which can lead to inefficiencies when conditions change. We propose a reinforcement learning (RL) approach that learns to orchestrate a set of such expert pol…

Shrinking the Kernel Attack Surface Through Static and Dynamic Syscall Limitation
Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0372…

Shrinking the Kernel Attack Surface Through Static and Dynamic Syscall Limitation
Linux Seccomp is widely used by the program developers and the system maintainers to secure the operating systems, which can block unused syscalls for different applications and containers to shrink the attack surface of the operating systems. However, it is difficult to configure the whitelist of a container or application without the help of program developers. Docker containers block about only 50 syscalls by default, and lots of unblocked useless syscalls introduce a big kernel attack surfa…

Out of the following mobile operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #os #mobile

Brillouin-Mandelstam Scattering-based Cooling of Traveling Acoustic Waves from Cryogenic Temperatures
Lisa Fischer, Laura Bl\'azquez Mart\'inez, Robin Chenivi\`ere, Johann Troles, Birgit Stiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12418

Brillouin-Mandelstam Scattering-based Cooling of Traveling Acoustic Waves from Cryogenic Temperatures
Thermal phonons are a major source of decoherence in quantum mechanical systems. Operating in the quantum ground state is therefore often an experimental prerequisite. Additionally to passive cooling in a cryogenic environment, active laser cooling enables the reduction of phonons at specific acoustic frequencies. Brillouin cooling has been used to show efficient reduction of the thermal phonon population in waveguides at GHz frequencies down to 74 K. In this letter, we demonstrate cooling of a…

The Command Line GUIde: Graphical Interfaces from Man Pages via AI
Saketh Ram Kasibatla, Kiran Medleri Hiremath, Raven Rothkopf, Sorin Lerner, Haijun Xia, Brian Hempel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01453 …

The Command Line GUIde: Graphical Interfaces from Man Pages via AI
Although birthed in the era of teletypes, the command line shell survived the graphical interface revolution of the 1980's and lives on in modern desktop operating systems. The command line provides access to powerful functionality not otherwise exposed on the computer, but requires users to recall textual syntax and carefully scour documentation. In contrast, graphical interfaces let users organically discover and invoke possible actions through widgets and menus. To better expose the power of…

When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- CPU-Limits kill Performance: Time to rethink Resource Control
Shetty, Chakraborty, Franke, Shwartz, Narayanaswami, Gupta, Jha

Measuring the measurement problem: controlling decoherence with measurement duration in molecular MCB junctions
C. J. Muller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01945 https://

Measuring the measurement problem: controlling decoherence with measurement duration in molecular MCB junctions
We investigate the influence of the measurement duration on quantum coherence in molecular mechanically controlled break junctions operating in a tetrahydrofuran (THF) partially wet phase. These systems represent a distinct class of enclosed open quantum systems with unusually long decoherence times at ambient conditions, on the order of 1-20 ms. By tuning the integration time of the current measurement in current-voltage (IV) characteristics, relative to the decoherence time, we observe a tran…

Boundaries Program Deformation in Isolated Active Networks
Zixiang Lin, Shichen Liu, Shahriar Shadkhoo, Jialong Jiang, Heun Jin Lee, David Larios, Chunhe Li, Hongyi Bian, Anqi Li, Rob Phillips, Matt Thomson, Zijie Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01713

Boundaries Program Deformation in Isolated Active Networks
Cellular structures must organize themselves within strict physical constraints, operating with finite resources and well-defined boundaries. Classical systems demonstrate only passive responses to boundaries, from surface energy minimization in soap films to strain distributions in elastic networks. Active matter fundamentally alters this paradigm - internally generated stresses create a bidirectional coupling between boundary geometry and mass conservation that enables dynamic control over ne…

System Password Security: Attack and Defense Mechanisms
Chaofang Shi, Zhongwen Li, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10…

System Password Security: Attack and Defense Mechanisms
System passwords serve as critical credentials for user authentication and access control when logging into operating systems or applications. Upon entering a valid password, users pass verification to access system resources and execute corresponding operations. In recent years, frequent password cracking attacks targeting system passwords have posed a severe threat to information system security. To address this challenge, in-depth research into password cracking attack methods and defensive …

General model and modulation strategies for Sagnac-based encoders
Federico Berra, Mat\'ias Rub\'en Bola\~nos, Alberto De Toni, Kannan Vijayadharan, Costantino Agnesi, Marco Avesani, Andrea Stanco, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11873

General model and modulation strategies for Sagnac-based encoders
In recent decades, there has been an increasing demand for faster modulation schemes. Electro-optic modulators are essential components in modern photonic systems, enabling high-speed control of light for applications ranging from telecommunications to quantum communication. Conventional inline and Mach-Zehnder modulators, while widely adopted, are limited by bias drift, high operating voltages, and polarization-mode dispersion. Sagnac loop-based modulators have recently emerged as a promising …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- SwitchFS: Asynchronous Metadata Updates for Distributed Filesystems with In-Network Coordination
Jingwei Xu, Mingkai Dong, Qiulin Tian, Ziyi Tian, Tong Xin, Haibo Chen

Modern iOS Security Features -- A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves
Moritz Steffin, Jiska Classen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09272 https://arxiv.org/p…

Modern iOS Security Features -- A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves
The XNU kernel is the basis of Apple's operating systems. Although labeled as a hybrid kernel, it is found to generally operate in a monolithic manner by defining a single privileged trust zone in which all system functionality resides. This has security implications, as a kernel compromise has immediate and significant effects on the entire system. Over the past few years, Apple has taken steps towards a more compartmentalized kernel architecture and a more microkernel-like design. To date, th…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- Rethinking Provenance Completeness with a Learning-Based Linux Scheduler
Jinsong Mao, Benjamin E. Ujcich, Shiqing Ma

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Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
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- Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Memory Allocation
Arisrei Lim, Abhiram Maddukuri

Universally Composable Termination Analysis of Tendermint
Zhixin Dong, Xian Xu, Yuhang Zeng, Mingchao Wan, Chunmiao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01097 https://

Universally Composable Termination Analysis of Tendermint
Modern blockchain systems operating in adversarial environments require robust consensus protocols that guarantee both safety and termination under network delay attacks. Tendermint, a widely adopted consensus protocol in consortium blockchains, achieves high throughput and finality. However, previous analysis of the safety and termination has been done in a standalone fashion, with no consideration of the composition with other protocols interacting with it in a concurrent manner. Moreover, th…

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- Retrofitting XoM for Stripped Binaries without Embedded Data Relocation
Chenke Luo, Jiang Ming, Mengfei Xie, Guojun Peng, Jianming Fu

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