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, 2021October 12, 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, 2020December 23, 2020
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 22, 2020
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, 2020December 11, 2020
Microsoft is Planning to Run Linux Programs on Windows You may have heard about a software named “Wine”, which is a program designed to run Windows applications & games on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Wine is quite marvelous because it helps Linux users run their Windows programs which they couldn’t find good alternatives to on Linux. It has been there for more […] September 27, 2020September 27, 2020
Linux Distros Used BootHole Vulnerability Patches.. To Destroy the Boot BootHole is a newly discovered security vulnerability that affects Linux systems using UEFI Secure Boot feature. The vulnerability allows full root access once exploited in the host system. Patches across many different Linux distributions were shipped before the weekend to fix the security issue. However, after applying the patches and rebooting their systems, many users […] August 1, 2020August 1, 2020
18 Years Ago, Linux’s Legendary Package Manager Synaptic was Released What is the first thing you do after you install Ubuntu or Debian? For me, and literally for almost everybody I met in the Linux world, the first thing is to install Synaptic. In November 13, Synaptic became 18 years old, and we are here to honor this good piece of software that served us […] November 24, 2019February 16, 2020
Ubuntu 17.10 Released: Most Exciting Ubuntu In Years Canonical finally announced the release of Ubuntu 17.10, the latest and most modern Ubuntu release so far. However, unlike many other releases, the Artful Aardvark can fairly be considered to be one of the most exciting Ubuntu releases ever. Following Canonical’s announcement few months ago about dropping Unity, Mir, Ubuntu Touch and focusing more on […] October 19, 2017October 21, 2017
openSUSE 42.3 Released, Here’s What’s New After 8 months of continues development. The openSUSE team has just announced openSUSE 42.3. Which is considered to be the latest release of the stable openSUSE branch (called Leap). openSUSE continues to be an enterprise-ready distribution. Since it started to be built again on SUSE Linux base (since 42.1). The new version is based on […] July 26, 2017December 23, 2018
