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Tag: Desktops Reviews

  • How to Play IPTV Livestreams on Linux with Open TV

    The world is modernizing and the old TV broadcasting ways are starting to disappear in the face of new technologies. IPTV is one of these technologies that are changing how people access TV livestreams in our times. As a Linux user, though, you may need a good IPTV program to facilitate your access to these…

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  • Mozilla has been suspiciously silent about Google and Manifest V3

    Opinion: Last week, Google announced that it is going to remove extensions using Manifest V2 from its Chrome extensions store at a very near time, and that extension developers should move into Manifest V3 if they want to keep their extensions working for users. Manifest V3 has limited support for functionality related to blocking ads…

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  • Top 7 Open Source CCTV/IP/Camera Monitoring Software

    Open source IP or CCTV camera monitoring software are special software that allow you to manage, connect and monitor your remote cameras over a network connection for video surveillance. These cameras could be anything from cams that are set up to protect your home security, or dashcams to record what’s happening around your vehicle, or…

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  • 20 GNOME Extensions To Perfectly Balance GNOME

    GNOME is one of the most controversial Linux desktops out there, but luckily, you can remove a bit of that controversy by adding GNOME extensions to your desktop for extra functionalities. These extensions serve as “addons” that you can easily install and tweak according to your needs. The GNOME extensions that you install need to…

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  • Top +5 Open Source Reference Managers & Mendeley Alternatives

    Reference management software are a specialized category of software for managing academic references to research papers and other scientific materials. Researchers heavily use these software for building and managing their knowledge bases for every academic topic they are interested in. One can have multiple “libraries” for each research topic he or she is interested in.…

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  • Top 7 Open Source Remote Desktop Software

    Remote desktop access is an amazing feature that allows you, as its name implies, to connect to a remote operating system via a network connection so that you can control it from your current location. It’s a great feature because it has a lot of applications. Such as helping your mom in fixing her broken…

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  • Top 15 Open Source Speech Recognition/TTS/STT/ Systems

    A speech-to-text (STT) system, or sometimes called automatic speech recognition (ASR) is as its name implies: A way of transforming spoken words via sound into textual data that can be used later for any purpose. A text-to-speech (TTS) system, on the contrary, is a method to generate audio from textual data and files. You basically…

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  • What’s Come of Lubuntu as of its 24.04 Release?

    Lubuntu 24.04 was released along with the other Ubuntu flavored back in April 2024. The distribution builds on core Ubuntu packages and libraries to deliver a more lightweight experience that is suitable for older computers and those with limited hardware resources, featuring the LXQt desktop (the continuation of LXDE desktop). We have reviewed multiple Lubuntu…

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  • Linux Mint 22 Could Be One of the Best Distributions in 2024

    Linux Mint 22 was just released yesterday with some interesting changes and new features. The distribution is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and will be supported with updates until 2029. Key changes in Linux Mint 22 include: Linux Mint 22 Review You will read a review for Linux Mint 22 and why it could be…

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  • Would Linux Have Helped to Avoid the CrowdStrike Catastrophe?

    Opinion: Millions of critical computers and servers around the world went down because CrowdStrike, a major cybersecurity firm that offers enterprise services, pushed a faulty Windows update to its customers’ machines. Airports, banks, public transportation infrastructure, enterprises work computers and servers… Every PC or server that received the faulty update went down for a varying…

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  • Top 7 Open Source CAD Software & AutoCAD Alternatives

    Computer-aided design (CAD) software are industry-oriented software that help engineers and designers with their work to design objects and shapes. It is one of the most important software categories out there, with a value estimated to be around $19 billion. Classically, proprietary solutions like AutoCAD, SolidWorks and TurboCAD have dominated this industry for many decades. But…

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  • Top 5 Open Source WAFs (Web Application Firewalls)

    WAF or Web Application Firewall is a software that provides additional protection to the working web application or web server from possible attacks when it becomes connected to the Internet. Just as you can guess from its name, it is similar to how a system firewall works, with the exception that it only protects the…

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  • Top 7 Maintained Open Source RAT Tools

    RAT or Remote Administration Tool is a piece of software that allows a user on one computer or smartphone to access another one and manage it remotely. Historically, RAT was also an acronym for “Remote Administration Trojan“, indicating that the controlling software on the host is minimal, hidden and sometimes used by hackers to control…

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  • What’s Come of openSUSE As of Its Leap 15.6 Release?

    The openSUSE Project announced the release of their Leap 15.6 distribution on June 12th, 2024. openSUSE has been a quite special Linux distribution in the Linux distributions family ever since it was born. Mainly, its YaST2 system management tool and Zypper package manager differentiate it from other Linux distributions, besides many interesting features that we…

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