Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Linux Mint plans full Wayland support and security updates Linux Mint’s next release will offer fully supported Wayland in Cinnamon, moving past its experimental status and addressing multiple stability issues. Security updates for CVE-2026-59159 in mintup...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net LineageOS introduces web flashing tools, revamped stats page, Android 17 plans, and more LineageOS has launched multiple updates aimed at enhancing both user experience and developer processes of this Android-based operating system. The stats page has been completely rewritten, now fea...
Jul 09, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.28: Microslop Moment, Rustification, Brave New features, KDE Plasma Tips and Meme Distro and More K in KDE stands for Kustomization.
Jul 09, 2026 from Rock and Null The age of deterministic software engineering is over Software engineering has entered a probabilistic era. As LLMs replace deterministic workflows with uncertainty, the challenge is no longer eliminating variability; it's building systems that delive...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenProject 17.6 brings XWiki integration and new agile planning features for backlogs OpenProject 17.6 is now available as the latest release of this open source project management platform. This update delivers a first milestone integration with XWiki, allowing users to link and re...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from It's FOSS Avoiding Vendor Lock-in By Using KDE Plasma As Personal Knowledge Base Exploring a rudimentary style of notes management with Markdown and KDE Dolphin. Sometimes, simplicity is the best solution.
Jul 09, 2026 from It's FOSS Another German State Just Kicked Out Microsoft ...Kind Of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has replaced Microsoft SharePoint with Nextcloud for over 5,000 government employees.
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net postmarketOS introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, better USB gadget handling, and Waydroid updates postmarketOS has released a new update that introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, bringing the latest version of this desktop and mobile environment to mobile Linux devices. This release arrives soon after KD...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday Die Casting Comes Home You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches new GPT-Live Voice models that enable simultaneous listening and speaking OpenAI has launched a major upgrade to ChatGPT Voice Mode powered by GPT-Live, a new generation of real-time voice models that replaces earlier speech architectures. The update introduces a full du...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube Video Ads automatically on desktop and phones DuckDuckGo’s Browser now offers automatic blocking of most video ads on YouTube, including ads displayed before and during playback. The feature is enabled by default on iPhone, Windows, and Mac wh...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Windscribe VPN adds IPv6 Egress support for WireGuard Pro locations Windscribe VPN now supports IPv6 egress, allowing users to route IPv6 traffic through the VPN tunnel on compatible Pro locations. This changes the previous approach, where IPv6 traffic was blocked ...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996 Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Red Hat EX467 exam Last Friday, I renewed my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform (EX467) certification. As I’m already a Red Hat Certified Architect and have passed th...
Jul 08, 2026 from Hackaday An Analog Synth For The Modern World We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more
Jul 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Deepin 25.2 upgrades Treeland Wayland compositor, adds image content search & improves DDE Deepin 25.2 arrives with a major focus on upgrading the Treeland Wayland compositor. Over 20 issues affecting stability and high-frequency user interactions have been fixed. Treeland now integrates...
Jul 08, 2026 from Hackaday Pi 5 Becomes ALSA-Compatible TOSLINK Sound Card This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do …read more
