{
  "id": 14697481,
  "title": "The Costa GUI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/the-costa-gui",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-15T12:06:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://costa.jacobpalm.dk/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Costa is a compact and lightweight application designed to run on MS-DOS or compatible operating systems. Instead of a traditional DOS prompt, Costa offers a clean and user-friendly graphical interface, a feature it shares with other similar applications known as GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). Created by Danish IT-professional and hobby developer Jacob Palm, Costa made its debut in 2004 and has since undergone numerous updates. As of 2025, Costa continues to be regularly updated. The application is offered free of charge and its source code is openly available for anyone interested in reviewing it. To view opinions and feedback from others about Costa, visit the Costa on the Web blog. The most recent version of Costa can be downloaded at no cost. To begin using the software, users simply need to unzip the downloaded archive and run Costa. Comprehensive documentation is included in the download package. Since September 2017, the complete source code has been accessible under the MIT license, allowing free usage. Interested parties can access the source code on Codeberg and clone it for personal use. Those seeking earlier versions can check the archive, which also provides a detailed log of modifications made in each release.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}