Freenode, The Mainstream IRC Network, Is Collapsing IRC is a well-known protocol designed to serve communication and messaging purposes between users. It is built using a client-server architecture, where many “networks” exist to provide the […] May 26, 2021May 26, 2021
Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned Researchers from the University of Minnesota secretly tried to add security vulnerabilities to Linux kernel, but they were caught and banned. April 21, 2021July 4, 2021
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 […] January 31, 2021January 31, 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 […] 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, […] December 23, 2020March 15, 2022
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 […] December 22, 2020December 11, 2021
7 Ways to Contribute to Open Source Software Many users of open source software may feel the need to give something back to the community that gave them all of these benefits they are enjoying, but […] December 18, 2020October 17, 2023
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 […] 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, […] December 9, 2020January 14, 2022
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 […] November 29, 2020November 29, 2020
Top 5 Open Source 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 […] November 26, 2020February 22, 2024
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 […] November 18, 2020August 16, 2023
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 […] 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 […] November 13, 2020June 14, 2022