Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what’s actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill. The Croatian
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Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles, has got Microsoft 365 running on Linux. His posts on X showcase an installation that completes on a Windows 10 or 11 Wine prefix, signs in with his existing license, and launches at least one editor.
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A few days ago, thirteen patches were sent to the kernel mailing lists that are looking to delete some of the 32-bit Arm platform code that the upcoming Linux 7.3 release cycle has marked as deprecated. While none of them have been
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Broadcom has taken down the public download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The pages for VDDK 8 and 9, along with the landing page, now return a generic error message. So far, there has been no formal announcement
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It’s been a while since I last wrote about Bottles. For anyone new to it, Bottles runs Windows software on Linux by hiding most of Wine’s configuration work behind a straightforward interface. Its feature list has been growing consistently too. You can
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PhoneBuff is a company that built its name by offering lab-tested, standardized reviews for smartphones run by robotic hands. Their YouTube channel showcases a range of assessments that cover speed tests, drop tests, and battery tests. When viewers started poking them about
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Ikey Doherty is out of retirement, and Omarchy’s funding is why. In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney,
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Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X posts without signing up for an account, is not going anywhere yet. Weeks after X Corp’s lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown, the project’s GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode with
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Switzerland’s federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That’s about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027. This move follows a successful
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Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and now crossing $13 million with the most recent pledge. What’s drawn my
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