Best of 2016

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2016. 173 posts.

Systems & Performance
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FreeBSD Q2 2016 Status Report

This quarter brings several exciting improvements over previous models. We have enhancements from different teams, new features like robust mutexes and support for full disk encryption with GELI. You'll find expanded graphics support, both at the chipset and window manager levels, and ongoing development in many…

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Qubes OS 3.2 has been released

I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing Qubes OS 3.2! This is an incremental improvement over the 3.1 version that we released earlier this year. A lot of work went into making this release more polished, more stable and easier to use than our previous releases. One major featu...