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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Seeing all the hype surrounding AI in the Linux ecosystem, you might’ve asked yourself, What makes a Linux distro “AI-focused“? If you go looking for an answer, you will get all kinds of results depending on which project you look at. One
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There is no dearth of note taking apps for Linux. There are tools like Obsidian that are local first, tools like Joplin that are both local and cloud but not encrypted. There are also collaborative tools like Etherpad that put encrypted notes
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iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. Even its
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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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Most Linux users benefit from GNU Readline without realizing it. It is the library responsible for Bash’s interactive command-line editing, providing familiar features like cursor movement, command history, and basic tab completion. While Readline is highly configurable, Readline’s completion remains relatively simple
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