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What is OpenOffice?
Office software affects your workflow, whether you’re creating a document, crafting a presentation, or managing complex spreadsheets. Microsoft Office has long held the spotlight, but one good competitor is Apache OpenOffice. It’s a productivity suite fit for anyone seeking budget-friendly options without giving up important features. Readers like you help support Android Police. When you Read more
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Install GitLab Runner
GitLab Runner runs the CI/CD jobs that are defined in GitLab. You can install GitLab Runner on your infrastructure, inside a Docker container, or deployed to a Kubernetes cluster. GitLab Runner is open-source and written in Go. It can run as a single binary and has no language-specific requirements. GitLab Runner can be installed and Read more
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Driver hack after Windows BSODs, no reboot needed
Normally, a blue screen of death crash (BSOD) in Windows would cause your PC to automatically restart, but programmer NSG650 (via NTDEV) has created a driver that instead makes your PC boot up a Linux emulator. While this driver is more of a novelty than it is actually useful, it’s an ingenious showcase of how Read more
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$50 10Gbps Mesh Network Uses USB4
You want to build a cluster of computers, but you need a high-speed network fabric that can connect anything to anything. Big bucks, right? [Fang-Pen] developed a 10 Gbps full-mesh network using USB4 that cost him under $50. The first part of the post is about selecting a low-power mini PC, but if you skip Read more
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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive In 2024
Haiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it being an open source version and continuation of the Be Operating System (BeOS). Despite its strong feature set in the 1990s, BeOS never got much Read more
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Linux Mint 21.3 is here – and it’s outstanding
The latest Linux Mint update is an excellent Linux desktop for many reasons. The Linux Mint community has once again released a top-tier Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. I’ve used more Linux distributions than most people, and Mint is my favorite desktop distro. My bias starts with Mint’s Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Read more
