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How to View and Remove File Metadata on Linux

Whenever you create a new file, whether using your office application, digital camera or video editor, a set of metadata fields are – most of the time – created as well on your new file. These metadata fields are hidden and you can’t see them in the file itself, but they might be revealing a […]
May 10, 2023May 10, 2023
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Things To Do After Installing Fedora 38

Fedora releases a new version approximately every 6 months. Each new version is supported with updates for 13 months in total. The distribution is a good place to get the latest stable software and technologies consistently. The latest stable version is currently Fedora 38, you can download it from the Fedora official website. 16 Things […]
May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
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Meet Kali Linux Purple: The Defensive Security Linux Distribution

On the 13th of March, 2023, the Kali Linux team announced the availability of a new version of their security-focused Linux distribution, named “Kali Linux Purple”. The new distribution is aimed at defensive security. “Defensive” not in the sense of simply protecting your personal computer for anonymity like Qubes OS and Tails, but in the […]
April 2, 2023April 3, 2023
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Enable Zram on Linux For Better System Performance

zRAM is a Linux kernel module that allows the creation of Swap devices on memory. But the catch is that it does not just create them there; it also compresses them so that the system can store more data in memory, which allows accessing this data much faster than a traditional swap on SSD or […]
February 24, 2023February 25, 2023
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Best Method to Limit Social Media Time on Your Browser

Social media addiction is a huge problem in many parts of the world. The average internet user now spends around 2:27 hours each day on social media, and this, in turn, causes a significant number of other psychological problems to human beings. You should start your own journey to get rid of that addiction, and we […]
February 23, 2023February 23, 2023
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Run Multiple GNOME Virtual Boxes Parallelly on Linux

GNOME Boxes is a utility that easily allows you to create “virtual boxes” where you can run any operating system or Linux distribution virtually on your system. The utility is installed by default on many Linux distributions. If you don’t have it installed on your system, then you can run the following command (for Ubuntu) […]
February 14, 2023February 14, 2023
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Bypassing Government Censorship Around NordVPN on Linux

Many governments around the world block access to VPN services so that their citizens don’t bypass their censorship. Most of the time they can’t block access entirely, but they can make it harder by blocking access to the main website of the VPN service, or the VPN servers which belong to it. In Turkiye for […]
February 4, 2023February 4, 2023
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5 Ways a Linux User Can Make Use of ChatGPT

You probably have already heard about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that took over the world faster than a Skynet apocalypse. There is no doubt that OpenAI researchers have achieved great progress in this model. However, there has been a lot of marketing hype about ChatGPT that caused it to become a buzzword in the tech […]
January 24, 2023January 24, 2023
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Best Linux Distribution of 2022 Goes to Pop!_OS 22.04

It’s that time of the year again, where we have to choose the best Linux distribution released so far. As a reminder, each year at FOSS Post we select the best desktop Linux distribution released according to specific criteria, such as: There have been many good Linux distributions released in 2022, which satisfy many of […]
January 2, 2023January 2, 2023
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Can Rocky Linux Be Used as a Desktop Workstation?

It has been two years now since Red Hat dropped the red letter for CentOS, and shifted focus towards CentOS Stream. The world has moved then to distributions like Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE and others. All of these distributions are fairly good alternatives for CentOS in the server world, and perhaps Rocky Linux is the […]
December 31, 2022December 31, 2022
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Install Redshift to Get Night Light on Linux

Looking to the default blue light emitted by computers all the time is not recommended; as it leads to eye strain and other health issues. You will notice this the most if you try to use your computer at night, and you will get blinded by the strong bright blue light coming out of it. […]
December 28, 2022December 28, 2022
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Xfce 4.18, and the Future of the Desktop

Xfce 4.18 was released on December 16, 2022. The lovely desktop environment has been around for around 25 years now (since 1997!). A lot of Linux and other Unix-like systems users like Xfce for how lightweight and straightforward it is. It just doesn’t get in the way of the user like some other desktops do. It […]
December 27, 2022December 28, 2022
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Get Jaw-dropping Window Effects on Linux with this Extension

“Burn My Windows” is a GNOME and KDE extension that allows you to play many different window effects when you close or open any window on your system. It’s quite fantastic, and brings back the memories of the good old Compiz and gnome 2.X, allowing you once again to play window effects on Linux. Here […]
December 24, 2022December 24, 2022
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Upscayl is an Open Source Linux AI Image Upscaler

AI tools have exploded in our times. Repetitive tasks that used to take countless hours before and a lot of people to finish, now take few minutes to complete. Thanks to the advancement in artificial intelligence and the related fields. Today we are introducing a nice tool for Linux users, called Upscayl. It is an […]
November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

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