Kick Google Play Outside Your Smartphone With AuroraStore More than 90% of all smartphones around the world are powered by android, which comes with the Google Play store by default for downloading various apps and programs. While Google Play is great and all, it is still a proprietary software, and requires a Google account with an active login to use it. Moreover, all […] Written by FOSS Post Team November 3, 2020November 3, 2020
EndeavourOS is a Wholesome Arch-Based Distribution Most readers may probably remember the Antergos Linux distribution which was discontinued in 2019. It was an Arch-based Linux distribution that aimed to be beginner-friendly, easy to install and easy to use. Making the average life quite possible with Arch Linux as a base. It featured a graphical installer with multiple options to install various […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh October 28, 2020October 28, 2020
Perhaps Mozilla Should Unfck Itself Before “Unfcking The Internet” The recent layoffs in August of more than 250 Mozilla employees, a quarter of its workforce, left the company shaking and the community worried about the future of the Firefox maker. The entire Servo team (A new browser engine in development since 2012), many developers working on MDN (Mozilla’s web development documentation portal) beside people […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
7 Best Open Source CAD Programs & AutoCAD Alternatives Looking for an open source CAD program or AutoCAD alternative? You would be surprised that the market is so full of them in fact. The open source ecosystem is quite large and reaches many aspects of the modern daily life. From engineering to science and medical sectors… Open source is no longer just Linux and […] Written by Simon James October 11, 2020January 19, 2021
Encrypt Cloud Storage With Open Source Cryptomator Most users are probably using one of the famous cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox to store their files & data and sync it between devices. But did you know that you could also encrypt your cloud stroage folders for more security? Encrypting your files and folders is a good idea because: […] Written by FOSS Post Team October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
Easily Split PDFs to Smaller Chunks With Linux Command Line The Linux command line is quite magical in that it can do wonders in few lines of writing. Work which used to take hundreds of hours can be done easily using a one-line command or a Bash shell script. We would like to deal with PDFs today; As they are the default format for sharing […] Written by FOSS Post Team October 5, 2020October 5, 2020
Microsoft is Planning to Run Linux Programs on Windows You may have heard about a software named “Wine”, which is a program designed to run Windows applications & games on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Wine is quite marvelous because it helps Linux users run their Windows programs which they couldn’t find good alternatives to on Linux. It has been there for more […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 27, 2020September 27, 2020
Fair Code vs Open Source, Which Wins The Future? Fair code is a new software development model which aims to replace the long-ruling open source model. Fair code authors argue that open source software lack a critical point in terms of commercial usage of the software, and hence, introduced their initiative to fix it. Table of Contents What is Fair Code?Fair Code LicensesAnalysis on […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
5 Linux VPN Providers To Secure your Connections With VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a communication tunnel between your devices and remote connection servers to bypass your local ISP censorship and local network monitoring. The working concept is that you redirect all your Internet traffic via these tunnels to access the Internet rather than directly using your ISP, and in this way, ISPs ability […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 13, 2020September 16, 2020
Use Encryption on Linux To Harden Your Data Security Encryption is one of the most amazing technologies to secure data. It prevents any 3rd-party from accessing it without having the key that unlocks the encrypted data, and hence everybody can secure their files simply via encrypting it with good methods. Encryption is used everywhere; in HTTPS protocol to transfer secure data between your browser […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
7 Important Privacy-Preserving Extensions for Chromium-Based Browsers According to StatCounter, 70% of all desktop users worldwide use Google Chrome as their default Internet browser. A sad fact, as Chrome is a proprietary web browser that does not respect the user privacy by default. Chromium however, is %100 open source and licensed under the BSD license. Chrome extensions do work on Chromium. Still, […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Break Free from Google’s Tracking With Ungoogled-Chromium For those who don’t know, Google Chrome is built on the top of the Google Chromium browser, which is an open source browser released under BSD license having almost the same features as in Google Chrome. Google’s approach is to add new features and tests to Chromium gradually before they land in the closed-source Google […] Written by FOSS Post Team August 30, 2020September 7, 2020
Secure Your Online Accounts With 2FA And Open Source Two-Factor Authentication or Multiple Factor Authentication, is the process of using two or more ways of proving identity to online services rather than just using the password alone (password = 1 factor, password + mobile code = 2 factors… And so on). It is a security measure designed to prevent attackers from gaining access to […] Written by FOSS Post Team August 29, 2020August 29, 2020
7 Privacy-Preserving Addons for Firefox You Should Have Firefox is such a great web browser to save privacy by default; It blocks trackers, 3rd-party cookies, fingerprint trackers and cryptomining scripts by default. But even with this, the browser is still in need of few extra addons to enhance users’ privacy. We’ll show them for you in less than 2 minutes to get you […] Written by FOSS Post Team August 28, 2020August 29, 2020
