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Latest Posts
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How to Enable Steam Play on Linux to Run Windows Games
Today, Valve released a new beta version of Steam Play which includes a technology called “Proton”. Proton is a modified distribution of Wine that enables you to run […]
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Understanding Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub and its effect on the FOSS Community
Around one month ago, Microsoft was confirmed to be willing to buy the giant software development platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. News which made the open source community […]
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Lengthy Review of Linux Mint 19: A Distro for Everyone
Linux Mint 19 Available software Creativity & Inventing Daily Use Purposes Stability & Bugs Customizability 4 Summary Linux Mint is the typical Linux distribution which is capable of […]
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Fedora 28: Another Release for Power Users
Fedora 28 Available software Creativity & Inventing Daily Use Purposes Stability & Bugs Customizability 2 Summary Fedora 28 comes with updated software and some good new features for […]
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Overview on Android x86 Project & Call to Help
If you have ever used a smartphone then you probably know about the android OS, and that it is an operating system made mainly for smartphones and other […]
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Ubuntu 18.04 Review: An Interesting LTS Release
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Available software Creativity & Inventing Daily Use Purposes Stability & Bugs Customizability 4 Summary This LTS came out just as expected. It is the first […]
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A Privacy & Security Concern Regarding GNOME Software
GNOME Software is the default application in the GNOME desktop environment to manage software. It also allows you to receive firmware updates through an underlaying daemon called “fwupd“, […]
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Hands on Corebird: A GTK+ Twitter Client
Corebird Creativity & Inventing Fit to Purpose Availability Stability & Bugs Continues Development 2 Summary Corebird offers a beautiful native GTK+ user interface. There’s a lot of work […]
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Where’s Xfce 4.14? Current Development, Roadmap & Future
Xfce is one of the most common desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like systems. it’s fast, lightweight and gets the job done. However, Xfce developers announced their […]