Snaps Are Quite Fantastic, For Some Use Cases 75% of users are still depending on traditional package mangers (APT, DNF… etc) instead of using Snaps or Flatpaks, but this is gradually starting to change, as larger organizations and development communities start to use the latter instead of the former. Some people like Snaps, some people hate them, which is fine, just like most […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh January 31, 2021January 31, 2021
Top 8 Open Source ERP Systems ERP is an abbreviation for “Enterprise resource planning”. They are software systems used to do the work that the company needs from day to day. You can think of it as the software responsible for managing the companies activities. It is very useful to allow various units and sectors in companies and organizations do their […] Written by Simon James January 19, 2021March 25, 2021
Best Linux Distribution of 2020: Linux Mint 20 Each year, the FOSS Post team does an extensive research on choosing the best Linux desktop distribution of the year. There’s of course no “universal best”, as the criteria is different from one person to another. For our selection, we search for distributions which may be suitable for the dominant majority of Linux desktop users, […] Written by FOSS Post Team January 2, 2021January 9, 2021
Telegram to Start Putting Ads in Public Channels in 2021 Telegram has been known for its good user experience that it provides for users wishing to have a WhatsApp alternative. With its many user-friendly features and being ad-free, millions of users migrated to it away from Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, but that migration could start to face some issues in the future. Today, Telegram’s product […] Written by Simon James December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
Announcing FOSS Quiz: Quiz Platform For Open Source At FOSS Post, we are very happy today to release our newest project: FOSS Quiz. When any new user enters the open source world, he/she will discover that there are so many details, so much information and tons of software to learn a lot about. Users wishing to dive deeper in the field may find […] Written by FOSS Post Team December 22, 2020December 22, 2020
Contributing to Open Source For Dummies Many users of open source software may feel the need of giving something back to the community that gave them all of these benefits they are enjoying, but my face an obstacle of being unexperienced. Average users may not know how to code or design, and hence, may just give up on contributing anything back […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
GTK 4.0 Released, One Month After GIMP Finally Switched to GTK 3.X The GTK development team has just announced GTK 4.0; The latest stable version of the popular graphical user interfaces development toolkit. After 4 years of continuous work, the GTK 4.0 series brings tremendous changes over the GTK 3.X branch. You can read more about these changes in details from the official GTK blog post, which […] Written by Simon James December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide In shocking news the CentOS project announced today that they are shifting their Linux distribution to be based on the beta (non-stable) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rather than the stable branch. And that they are terminating CentOS 8 updates at the 31st of December, 2021. The CentOS project will now release something named […] Written by Mehmet Özel December 9, 2020December 11, 2020
OpenOffice Still Gets +1.5 Million Downloads Per Month, Despite Being Discontinued OpenOffice started as the open source version of “StarOffice” by Sun Microsystems in 1999. It continued to be a the mainstream Microsoft Office alternative through the 2000s and kept improving over time, until a community fork happened in 2011 after Oracle acquired Sun. The community feared that Oracle would shut down the project due to […] Written by FOSS Post Team November 29, 2020November 29, 2020
Open Source/Linux Communities To Join and Enjoy Looking for user communities and online forums is one of the very first things any new open source user would normally do after making the switch. These communities can be useful either to provide technical help or just general discussion about various topics in the open source world. People simply like to share their thoughts […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh November 26, 2020November 26, 2020
Interesting Linux Distributions To Enlighten Your 3rd Quarantine The 3rd wave of Coronavirus is here, and hence many countries around the world are starting to impose new lockdowns in order to limit the spread of the virus. So what to do in this long time of quarantine? A Linux user answer to that question would be simply trying a bunch of interesting Linux […] Written by Mehmet Özel November 18, 2020November 18, 2020
Why Companies Can Benefit From Open Source Many people think that open source software are just beneficial for end-users, and that there isn’t any much benefit for corporations or enterprises in using them. But that is absolutely not right. In fact, companies can be one of the most benefiting entities from open source, due to many reasons and factors which we’ll be […] Written by Simon James November 17, 2020November 17, 2020
How Many Users Can Open Source Zoom Alternatives Handle? Zoom has been a boom since Coronavirus started, it seemed to be one of the very few software in the world capable of handling the planet’s digital transfer of most face-to-face communication since people were forced to stay in their homes during the quarantine. Governments, schools, universities, hospitals, companies, enterprises… All of them went to […] Written by FOSS Post Team November 13, 2020November 14, 2020
Never Go For AMD Gaming on Linux Without CoreCtrl AMD is starting to become the mainstream option for gamers nowadays with their CPUs & GPUs, allowing on-budget gamers to enjoy great performance for mostly half the price of the other vendors in the market like Intel and NVIDIA. Sadly AMD does not provide its AMD Radeon software for Linux (The controlling program responsible of […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh November 13, 2020November 13, 2020
