LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from ...

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Pick the best Raspberry Pi desktop OS for 2026, including Pi 5 and Pi 4 support, plus a 170MB Diet Pi base install.

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...