Open Source ERP: Top 10 Software What is an Open Source ERP Software? 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 company’s activities. Business systems are very useful in allowing various units […] September 25, 2023January 21, 2024
Firefox Has Lost around 70M Users in Last 5 Years What’s the news? As of August 2023, the number of active Firefox users around the world has dropped to 176 million users. A far cry from the end of 2018 when it had 244 million active users. This means that the Firefox browser has roughly lost 70 million active users in the last five years. […] August 26, 2023August 26, 2023
How to Take a Screenshot on Linux Like a Pro There are many reasons why you might want to take a screenshot on Linux: To showcase a problem, share something on your screen with a friend, or capture something appearing on your screen for memory. In any case, you will need to use special software for this task. And in this detailed article, we will […] August 22, 2023September 19, 2023
PeppermintOS 12 Review: Debian But Better PeppermintOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution that aims to offer users a minimal desktop, while shipping with what’s “enough” for most users, and nothing more. While it is not entirely stated in the project goals, the “minimal” part has led this distribution to be very suitable for old computers and other low-resource machines. It is […] July 22, 2023July 22, 2023
Fedora Wants to Add Telemetry To its Linux Distribution A proposal by a Red Hat engineer is causing controversy in the Fedora community, which is related to the addition of opt-out telemetry to the Fedora desktop workstation edition. The proposal describes a privacy-preserving data collection mechanism that could help the developers know more about their users and how they interact with Fedora, including various GNOME […] July 7, 2023July 7, 2023
Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again 3 long years have passed since the CentOS project – directed by Red Hat after being acquired by IBM – announced the shift towards CentOS Stream and ending support for its regular CentOS releases. A lot has happened since. Derivative communities emerged like Rocky Linux, Alma Linux and others. And the community’s trust in Red […] June 23, 2023June 23, 2023
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
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
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 23, 2024
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
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
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
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
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