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  • 5 Systems To Use For Data Backup, Recovery and Erasure

    5 Systems To Use For Data Backup, Recovery and Erasure

    Drives of all types fail sometimes. That’s why it’s important to have regular backups and data snapshots so that recovery remains possible. In case you are looking for a way to restore your lost data on disk drives, or if you are looking for a tool that enables disk cloning for your entire disk collection…

  • OnlyOffice 8.0 and the Dream of a Microsoft Office Alternative

    OnlyOffice 8.0 and the Dream of a Microsoft Office Alternative

    OnlyOffice is an open source office suite licensed under the AGPL 3.0 license, and works on Windows and Linux systems. It features editor programs for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Version 8.0 of the software was released just a few weeks ago, and it is said that many improvements were brought program. It has been a…

  • We Now Have a Forum

    We Now Have a Forum

    I started FOSS Post around 8 years ago in the hope of creating an independent online publication that covers untouched aspects of the open source world. Today, with millions of pageviews since its establishment and thousands of followers, I am very pleased to welcome all of you to our forums: outpost.fosspost.org Kindly read the detailed…

  • How To Install & Use QEMU To Virtually Set up Operating Systems

    How To Install & Use QEMU To Virtually Set up Operating Systems

    QEMU is a virtualization technology emulator that allows you to run operating systems and Linux distributions easily on your current system. It is like VMware or VirtualBox, but it is also free and open source, and uses open technologies to make virtualization possible. You can use it to emulate running any operating system you want…

  • 7 Methods to Get Linux Apps and Software

    7 Methods to Get Linux Apps and Software

    The Linux ecosystem is more grown and mature today than ever before. We have tons of Linux apps which are useful for users in all different categories and for all use cases. However, the ways to download and install these Linux apps are not the same. Each software application may have its own method of…

  • How to Install Firefox as a DEB Package on Ubuntu and Debian

    How to Install Firefox as a DEB Package on Ubuntu and Debian

    The most notable change you’ll notice in Ubuntu 22.04+ is that the Firefox browser is no longer installed on the system as a traditional DEB package. Instead, it is now being installed as a Snap package. From developers point of view, this eases the update process and ensures that all Ubuntu users are using the…

  • Top 10 Open Source Digital Twin Platforms

    Top 10 Open Source Digital Twin Platforms

    Digital twin platforms are specialized software that allow the digitalization of a specific area or object in the real world. In other words, they create a simulation for the physical object. This digitalization process later on allows performing various study, analysis and manipulation tasks on the properties of the data which was not possible of…

  • The Best Linux Distribution of 2023 was… The Linux Desktop

    The Best Linux Distribution of 2023 was… The Linux Desktop

    We are here today to reflect on what Linux distributions released in 2023 were the finest as a Linux desktop driver for the average Joe. Previously, we have nominated the following Linux distributions to fill this position: Today, we are happy to announce that the 2023 winner of that title, according to our humble view,…