Google Slows Down Firefox Users When Watching YouTube If you are using the open source Firefox web browser to browse YouTube and watch its videos, then you might have noticed that there is an artificial delay that was added recently whenever you try to watch a video. Don’t worry, it’s not an issue in your machine nor a slowdown in your Internet connection. […] November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
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
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
Survey Shows 60% Of VFX Designers Are Using Linux VES (Visual Effects Society) is an organization that represents visual effects designers, animators, studios, film makers and other related stakeholders from many different countries around the world. They have thousands of members from many different companies specialized in VFX field, some of which have made the most iconic films in the world. VES has published […] January 14, 2022January 14, 2022
Firefox Is Currently Facing A Major Bug In Connection [Fixed] Users of the open source web browser have started to report a bug on various online communities where the browser simply can’t establish a connection to any website they wish to visit. Even when they try to close the browser, it hangs and keeps running in the background. No official statement from Mozilla is released […] January 13, 2022January 14, 2022
Linux is Everywhere: 5 Places Where You Didn’t Know It’s There Have you every wondered where is Linux? What key sectors does it power and in what areas is it commonly used? Many people, to this very day, think that Linux is nothing more than a server operating system for advanced users, and nothing more. But that’s not true. Linux can be found in unusual places […] November 28, 2021November 28, 2021
FOSS Torrents Is Your Gate For Linux Distributions Torrents Torrents are very common between users downloading a Linux distribution. Typically, a Linux distribution’s ISO size varies between 1GB and 4.9GB, with 2.5GB being the average. Hence, normal HTTP connection could take a long time to finish downloading it. Torrents on the other hand are much faster, because users are downloading from their peers, who […] October 12, 2021December 14, 2021
Audacity Developers Apologize, Revise Controversial Privacy Policy 20 days ago, FOSS Post was one of the first media outlets to publish about the new privacy policy for Audacity; a popular open source audio editor. In the old privacy policy, broad and unlimited legal contexts were introduced for data-collection, which unleashed a huge backlash from the community. Later on, angry users and developers […] July 22, 2021July 22, 2021
Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021 Firefox is the default web browser installed on most Linux distributions. It is a well-known browser by Mozilla that respects user privacy by design, and currently remains the only major web browser pushing for open web standards and community interest rather than giant corporations like Google, Microsoft or Apple. The existence of Firefox is important […] July 20, 2021July 20, 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
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, millions of users migrated to it away from Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, but that migration could start to face some issues in the future. Today, Telegram’s product […] 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 there are so many details, so much information and tons of software to learn a lot about. Users wishing to dive deeper in the field may find […] December 22, 2020December 11, 2021
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 GTK 4.0 series brings tremendous changes over the GTK 3.X branch. You can read more about these changes in details from the official GTK blog post, which […] 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, rather than the stable branch. And that they are terminating CentOS 8 updates at the 31st of December, 2021. The CentOS project will now release something named […] December 9, 2020January 14, 2022