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
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
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, 2022January 7, 2024
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
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
Ubuntu 22.10 Review: Very Modern But Nothing’s Perfect Few days ago, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, celebrated its distribution’s 18th birthday by releasing Ubuntu 22.10. The same day in which Ubuntu 4.10 was released back in 2004. It means that Ubuntu is officially no longer underage! (jk). Anyway, the new release contains a lot of changes and important updates to discuss. And in […] October 25, 2022October 25, 2022
How to Install WebApps on Linux WebApps are a special type of applications. They are not fully-fledged programs on the desktop like your image editor or multimedia player, but instead, they are just websites contained in a window. Many websites like WhatsApp, Messenger or Office 365 are usually opened by users all the day. They want to access them quickly at […] October 17, 2022October 19, 2022
Linux Mint 21 Review: A Considerable Upgrade Linux Mint 21, which is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, has been released less than a month ago with a number of considerable changes. The main changes can be summarized in the following list (Cinnamon edition): Linux Mint 21 Review In this article we will be conducting a detailed review for Linux Mint 21, and […] August 29, 2022January 7, 2024
Czkawka is Your Swiss Knife For Cleaning Files on Linux After using your Linux system for a couple of months or years, you will find that a lot of dust will start building up on different parts of your OS. This is especially true regarding your own data and files. You will have many duplicate files, large files that you no longer use or need, […] August 1, 2022August 10, 2022
Watch The World as it Collapses From Your Linux Desktop We are happy to introduce our first in-house developed program to the world: FOSS Post Collapse Monitor. There are many indicators for a possible collapse in human civilization, motivated by climate change and other elements. Many people started carefully monitoring these elements in order remain alerted as much as possible, and make sure they are prepared […] July 27, 2022July 28, 2022
Be Wary Of “Fake” Open Source Software Open source software have become more important today than in the past. The benefits brought by using open source software for governments, organizations and commercial businesses can not be emphasized enough. This is why you’ll probably see an open source software running in every corner of the modern IT infrastructure. This, however, made the term […] July 4, 2022July 4, 2022
Easily Get 3rd-Party Software on Ubuntu With Deb-Get Sometimes you may want to install software applications which are not in the the official package repositories of your Ubuntu installation. And if you want to install these software, then you have to: Head to their official website. Add their repository to your system manually (If they provide one). If they don’t provide a Deb […] June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
Turkish Municipality Saves $1M By Migrating to Pardus Linux There are many reasons why governments and other societal entities may elect to use Linux and other open source software instead of the proprietary alternatives, but arguably, minimizing software licensing costs is one of the most important reasons for this. Today we’ll be showing the story of Eyupsultan municipality, which is located at the European […] May 31, 2022May 31, 2022
Fix Bluetooth rtl8761b Problem on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) Linux has sadly many problems when it comes to Bluetooth, or at least, some specific distributions of it. We have seen a case before where many Bluetooth devices were actually supported by the kernel, but an issue in USB power management caused these devices to not work for a very, very long time on various […] May 4, 2022August 29, 2023