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Wayback 0.3 released – OSnews
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (203+ words) Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, released a new version just before the Christmas. Wayback 0.3 overhauls its custom command line option parser to allow for more X.org options to…...
Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (714+ words) Since I was but a wee university student in the late 2000s living in a small apartment, I did not have the financial means nor the space to really test this hypothesis. Now, though, Sun's products from that era are decidedly…...
Wayback 0.2 released – OSnews
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (131+ words) Wayback has been barely announced, and the first version 0.1 has barely left git, but it's already time for version 0.2. It won't surprise you to find out this isn't some massive release, and you'd be right. It really only addresses a…...
Wayback 0.1 released – OSnews
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (400+ words) Wayback, the recently announced tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, has just announced its first release, version 0.1. As the version number implies, there be dragons here, but the developers state some…...
Does showing seconds in the Windows System Tray actually use more power?
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (367+ words) On Windows, there's an option to show the seconds on the taskbar clock, but it comes with a warning that it might reduce battery life if you switch it on. LTT Labs decided to look into this to see just…...
Linux kernel driver plugs rotary phone dial into the kernel
7+ mon, 17+ hour ago (75+ words) A Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into an evdev input device. " Stefan Wiehler The year of Linux on the desktop is finally here. Thanks to Oleksandr Natalenko for pointing this gem out. A Linux kernel driver…...
Musk’s Tesla warns Trump’s tariffs and trade wars will harm Tesla
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (432+ words) Elon Musk's Tesla is waving a red flag, warning that Donald Trump's trade war risks dooming US electric vehicle makers, triggering job losses, and hurting the economy. In an unsigned letter to the US Trade Representative (USTR), Tesla cautioned that…...