Real, dated releases and announcements - verified against official sources, not speculation.
Announced by Torvalds in September 2024 and landing in kernel 6.12, PREEMPT_RT ended two decades as an out-of-tree patchset needing a custom kernel build.
Canonical's September 2021 decision to extend Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS support to a full decade, and what it signaled about its long-term LTS commitment.
Why Boot Camp stayed Intel-only on Apple Silicon, what native Windows would require, and how Microsoft now supports licensed Windows 11 Arm virtual machines.
How Apple spent a decade signaling the end of 32-bit app support before removing it in October 2019, making the transition smoother than it could have been.
Released September 25, 2017, High Sierra converted flash-storage Macs to Apple File System automatically - the biggest Mac filesystem shift in decades.
Released September 13, 2000 for $29.95, the 'Kodiak' public beta gave Mac users their first hands-on look at Aqua, preemptive multitasking, and protected memory.
The T2, introduced in the 2017 iMac Pro and rolled out through 2018, took boot security, storage encryption, and other sensitive functions off the main CPU.
An operational account of Catalina's zsh default: which accounts changed, what stayed on Bash, and how administrators could migrate without breaking scripts.
Why Dolphin's planned 2023 Steam release stopped after Valve consulted Nintendo, what the DMCA dispute did not decide, and how platforms govern access.
Tony Cannon's 2019 MIT release opened GGPO's rollback SDK for study and commercial reuse, while leaving deterministic game integration to developers.