Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot).
You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them.
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen…)

50 Free and Open Source Projects Selected for NGI Zero grants

Some projects from 50 Free and Open Source Projects Selected for NGI Zero grants that caught my attention for a variety of reasons:

  • Reticulum Network Stack — Networking stack for building local and wide-area networks even with extremely low bandwidth
  • librice — Pure Rust implementation of IETFs real-time communication standard ICE (RFC8445) Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols
  • Aiohttp Asynchronous HTTP Client/Server for asyncio and Python.
  • WeasyPrint — Print rendering engine for HTML and CSS

FUSS – The GNU/Linux Distribution for a Digitally Sustainable School

FUSS


The GNU/Linux Distribution for a Digitally Sustainable School

FUSS is a complete GNU/Linux solution (server, client and desktop/standalone) based on Debian for managing an educational network.

It is at the same time also a digital sustainability project that since 2005 allows students and teachers to use at home the same IT tools installed at school, freely and at no cost.

Download installation images from https://fuss.bz.it/page/download

Farewell buggy software! Welcome KOReader & Plato!

Since the native software of my Kobo aura is so buggy that always crash with certain EPUBs, after reaching a specific page I finally decided to follow the One-Click Install Packages for KOReader & Plato. I installed both KOReader and Plato.

I started trying KOReader. Needless to say it works like a breeze, and as far as I can tell it is quite faster that the native, buggy, crashing KOBO Reader

Migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea

In questo articolo vediamo quali sono le migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea disponibili al momento. Per ognuna di esse darò una valutazione soggettiva e personale in 3 categorie con …

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In sintesi, “vincono” SimpleX e Briar

Per una comparazione più approfondita consultare https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

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TOTP on Windows

Recently I had to suggest a 2 factor authentication applicative for Windows. Of course I searched on alternativeto.net for a free-as-in-freedom program running on Windows founding this:

2fast (acronym for two factor authenticator supporting TOTP) is a free, open source, two factor authenticator for Windows and other platforms. 2fast has the ability to store the encrypted data at a place of your choice instead of a 3rd party cloud location.

They tried it and I can say it is well designed

Let’s hope that their IT departement will never enable TOTP for log in their desktops, otherwise they may be locked out. I suggested to save the QR-Code seed elsewhere.

SpaceFM

Many years ago I tried PCManFM the grand-father of SpaceFM. I think I will try it.

sudo apt install spacefm and sudo apt -t testing install spacefm and sudo apt -t unstable install spacefm keep telling me that

159 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 773 to remove and 887 not upgraded.
Need to get 597 MB/597 MB of archives.
After this operation, 6382 MB disk space will be freed.

Also installing from source would break many other things as the dependency libffmpegthumbnailer-dev that seems to be unanavoidable is broken on my system. Well, I’ll wait