The Open Source Post
Welcome to the FOSS Post! The leading independent publication about Linux and open-source software.
We deliver stories, tutorials, reviews, analysis and opinion pieces about various aspects of the open-source world.
New user to the Linux and open source world? No worries, we have prepared a series of step-by-step explanatory articles that you can read to understand everything you need to know.
Are you a Linux user wishing to enhance your knowledge about privacy and security? Come read this series of detailed articles about these topics and see what practices you can apply.
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Latest Posts
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What is Open Source Software?
Before you learn what open source software is, you need to know what is source code and binary code. When someone writes a computer program, they don’t simply […]
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Your Full Guide on Migrating from Windows 7 to Linux
Windows 7 was released a decade ago in 2009. A lot of people consider it to be the best Windows version Microsoft has ever made. Sadly Microsoft announced […]
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Best Distribution of 2019 Goes to Ubuntu MATE 19.10
Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Available software Creativity & Inventing Daily Use Purposes Stability & Bugs Customizability 4 Summary The Ubuntu MATE 19.10 distribution is an extraordinary distribution that combines […]
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In the Love of Open Source Communities
We do, to some limited extent, acknowledge the efforts and contributions of open source software developers. But another aspect of that goes completely unnoticed, which is the community […]
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An Interview With Slax Creator Tomas Matejicek
Slax is a minimal Linux distribution that works from USB. It is based on Debian and aims to be as much as modular and portable as possible. Slax […]
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10 Years of Using Linux: How It Was Before, And How it Became
2020 Marks my 10 years of using Linux, a decade of my life that I also spent in supporting, promoting and developing free software both in my local […]
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18 Years Ago, Linux’s Legendary Package Manager Synaptic was Released
What is the first thing you do after you install Ubuntu or Debian? For me, and literally for almost everybody I met in the Linux world, the first […]
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What are Snaps, Flatpaks and AppImages on Linux?
When GNU/Linux was introduced in 1991, people used to compile their own software by themselves from the source code. You would simply download each component you want (or […]