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Although this blog has its focus on Linux operating systems, we don't want to exclude other excellent operating systems. NetBSD 9.0 has been released a few days ago , on Valentine's Day. The NetBSD project ("Of course it runs NetBSD") dates back to 1993 . Founded by Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt (going his own ways with OpenBSD later), Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum, the NetBSD project has released 17 major versions of their operating system. NetBSD 9.0 includes: + support for AArch64 machines + enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A + upgraded GPU drivers on x86 (Linux 4.4 DRM/KMS) + new GPU drivers for Arm + support for hardware-accelerated virtualization via the NVMM hypervisor + loads of other improvements (see release notes) Installing NetBSD 9.0 is relatively easy and I found a short video that illustrates the process of installing NetBSD 9.0. NetBSD 9.1 was released in October, 2020.

MX Linux 19.1 is available now and, according to the release notes , is packed with useful software updates and loads of bugfixes. If you're already running MX Linux 19, there is no need to wipe your HD and start fresh. You should be able to update normally. The MX Linux 19.1 release contains all the goodies from both the Debian 10.3 (Buster) repositories and the MX repos. MX Linux 19.1 comes with: Xfce 4.14 Mesa 18.3.6 Kernel 4.19 The standard applications coming with the default MX installation: - GIMP 2.10.12 - Firefox 73.0 - VLC 3.0.8 - Clementine 1.3.1 - Thunderbird 68.4.0 - LibreOffice 6.1.5 (+ security fixes!) Not many users know this, but MX Linux provides not only 32-bit and 64-bit ISOs, but also the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) ISO which ships with bleeding-edge software, including the 5.4 Kernel and Mesa 19.2.1. Read about AHS here . Get MX Linux here and have fun.

Firefox 73.0 was released yesterday as the new stable Firefox browser version used by millions of people around the globe. Whether it's to avoid yet another Google spyware product (like Chrome) or just because Firefox offers so much more flexibility through extensions, Firefox is still going strong. With the new update, Mozilla introduces several useful things that users might have missed before. One feature seems to be extremely useful for web developers: the console has become smarter, according to the Firefox devs. Console output can be styled pretty easily via options added to the console.log() function. The following is the example from the Mozilla blog: console.log('There has been a problem with your fetch operation: %c' + e.message, 'color: red; padding: 2px 2px 2px 20px; background: yellow 3px no-repeat url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAwAAAAMCAYAAABWdVznAAAACXBIWXMAAA 7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAApUlEQVQoz5WSwQ3DIBAE50wEEkWkABdBT+bhNqwoldBHJ