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Ventoy turns any disk into a multi-boot OS installer • The Register
Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder.
Even if you're not a distro-hopping FOSS fundie, having a few bootable USB keys around is handy. You can often revive a sickly PC by just booting Windows and running CHKDSK /F on it, or boot Linux to retrieve some files off a computer if a PEBCAK error occurred and someone's forgotten their password.
If you have a few PCs knocking around, it's quicker to mount the latest Windows 10 disk image and run setup.exe than it is to let Windows Upgrade chug through the download on each one.
Ventoy isn't unique or unprecedented. There are some gadgets for this – for example, if you can find one, Zalman has made a few external hard disk enclosures which let you pick an ISO file with physical buttons, then the box emulates a USB CD drive with that disk inserted. There are also tools such as DriveDroid to make an Android phone do it too. But why carry a cable around?
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Open source advent calendar: the public transport timetable information [Ed: Automated/machine translation]
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Open source advent calendar: the password manager KeePass [Ed: Automated/machine translation]
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Open source advent calendar: the messenger Telegram [Ed: Automated/machine translation]
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Open-Source-Adventskalender: Die Browser-Engine Chromium [Ed: Automated/machine translation]
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Open source advent calendar: the media player VLC [Ed: Automated/machine translation]
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Firefox 95 for Windows and Mac introduces RLBox, a new sandboxing tech | Ars Technica
Firefox 95 follows the November 2 release of Firefox 94, which, among other things, added new color themes, introduced Site Isolation (which is now on by default for all users in Firefox 95), made changes to the way updates were delivered, and made several OS-specific optimizations like improved WebGL performance under Linux.
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