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If the open source Firefox web browser doesn’t start improving, then it will be headed to my ‘ Secondary Stuff‘ pile along wid Microsoft Office! It just refuses to open far too many sites, for some reason/s, and I am tired of it!?! Microsoft Edge opens those sites easily. However, most of my computers just have LibreOffice on them, and its Writer is my present ‘n future word processor. Have recently switched from Microsoft Office suites to the open source LibreOffice productivity software suite, and it is working out great! Still use Microsoft Office occasionally, since I have a lot of old docs, and it is still useful at times as a secondary word processor. It's not limited to USB either it supports pretty much any kind of removable disk.I’ve been using Open Source Tools ‘n Apps for a long time. If you want persistent storage for a Linux live image, it can do that too. You can have as many ISOs as the key will hold, and unlike a DIY solution with GRUB4DOS, there's no need to manually edit config files, add the ISO filename into a list or anything.

It will boot Linux, BSD, Windows, or any standard ISO, whatever you want, and works on both BIOS and UEFI machines. You don't need a key-writing tool at all. It's quicker than writing a file, especially with Windows tools such as Rufus. Friday FOSS fest: Franz, RamBox, Pidgin and more.

The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers.Helios-NG: An open-source cluster OS that links the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.

Open hardware smartphone PinePhone Pro starts to ship – to developers only, for now.

Ventoy generates a menu of all the ISO files on the fly and lets you pick one, then the computer boots from it. Just copy some ISO files into the big partition, shove the stick into any PC or Intel Mac, and boot from it. It partitions and formats your key with a small boot partition and a bigger empty one. Download either the Linux or Windows version, whichever's more convenient – it's only 18 meg, about a quarter of the size of BalenaEtcher, for instance – and run it. All you need is a spare USB key with enough space for a few ISOs eight gigs will work and 16 is plenty. Ventoy makes this quicker and easier than anything else we've seen, though.