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This Tiny Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1767+ words) A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit,…...
MAKERphone 2.0 Lets You Build a 4G Phone and Vibe-Code Its Apps
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (982+ words) 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....
5 Linux Distros Bringing AI to Your Desktop
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1054+ words) 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…...
Broadcom Kills Public VDDK Access to Tighten its Grip on VMware
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (576+ words) 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…...
FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (551+ words) 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…...
Bottles Brings Hope for Windows-only Software on ARM Devices
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (562+ words) 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....
Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (494+ words) Ikey Doherty is out of retirement, and Omarchy's funding is why. Omarchy's Omacom Foundation has already crossed $13 million in pledges since its August launch, when eight tech executives, including Michael Dell, put in a million each. The run has drawn…...
Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (566+ words) 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 proof-of-concept and…...
This Dev Spent 8 Years on Intel's Clear Linux, Now He's Undoing Its Biggest Mistake
1+ week, 5+ day ago (581+ words) Auke Kok spent eight years working on Clear Linux OS at Intel. Now he thinks he knows exactly what broke it, and he's trying to fix that by himself. In a LinkedIn post this week, Auke, now a Linux Distribution…...
Vanilla OS 3 Comes in Hot, Packing ARM64 Support After a Long Wait
1+ week, 5+ day ago (701+ words) My history with Vanilla OS goes back to 2022, when I covered its debut stable release, just a month after I landed this gig at It's FOSS (yapping about open source and Linux). Since then, my focus has moved to other…...