OnlyOffice 8.0 and the Dream of a Microsoft Office Alternative OnlyOffice is an open source office suite licensed under the AGPL 3.0 license, and works on Windows and Linux systems. It features editor programs for documents, spreadsheets and […] February 24, 2024February 24, 2024
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 […] July 4, 2022July 4, 2022
5 Years Later, Unity Desktop Is Forming an Accidental Renaissance It has been 4 and half years since Canonical announced their decisions to drop Unity desktop for GNOME, drop the convergence experience and shift focus towards the cloud […] November 20, 2021November 20, 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
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
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 […] September 20, 2020June 24, 2024
Despite Efforts, Traditional Package Managers Still Dominate Linux Desktop Many app packages were introduced in the last few years to the Linux desktop, such as Snap and Flatpak. These app packages aimed to solved different issues; From […] August 22, 2020August 22, 2020
Distrowatch is NOT a Measure for Distributions Popularity Distrowatch is one of the most famous websites about Linux distributions (and other Unix-like operating systems) that has been in service since 2001. It covers the new releases […] January 26, 2020January 26, 2020
The Status of Fractional Scaling (HiDPI) Between Windows & Linux There’s a special type of displays commonly called “HiDPI“, which means that the number of pixels in the screen is doubled (vertically and horizontally), making everything drawn on […] July 21, 2019January 7, 2024
Governments Are Spending Billions on Software They Can Get with Freedom How a Software is Owned In the proprietary software world, when software is released, and when users buy that software, they don’t usually buy the entire software, but […] February 14, 2019October 25, 2023
Dark Days are Waiting the Open Internet There’s no argument that the Internet is one of the backbones of the modern world today. Yet, it seems that we are heading toward the end of the […] December 10, 2018April 16, 2019
Understanding Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub and its effect on the FOSS Community Around one month ago, Microsoft was confirmed to be willing to buy the giant software development platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. News which made the open source community […] July 8, 2018May 30, 2020
A Privacy & Security Concern Regarding GNOME Software GNOME Software is the default application in the GNOME desktop environment to manage software. It also allows you to receive firmware updates through an underlaying daemon called “fwupd“, […] April 13, 2018April 16, 2019
Where’s Xfce 4.14? Current Development, Roadmap & Future Xfce is one of the most common desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like systems. it’s fast, lightweight and gets the job done. However, Xfce developers announced their […] February 26, 2018December 23, 2018
