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 […] Written by Simon James 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by Simon James 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 […] Written by Mehmet Özel 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh 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 […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh 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 […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh July 26, 2017December 23, 2018
Fedora 26 Officially Released With Updated Software & More After around 8 months of continues development, Fedora project has just announced the official release of Fedora 26; Newest and most solid Fedora release so far. Fedora 26 keeps coming with GNOME desktop and pure upstream components by default. Additionally, a lot of other spins with other interfaces such as Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, LXQt and […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh July 11, 2017December 23, 2018
All Debian 9 Live Images Are Broken, Developers Working On a Fix Debian 9 was just released two days ago. Most of us got excited to download the new version and see what’s new. And also to test the new images and whether a safe upgrade can be done at the moment or not. However, there seems to be a bug in all the Debian 9 live […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh June 20, 2017June 21, 2017
A New Version Of WPS Office For Linux Was Just Released WPS Office is a well known cross platform office suite which also works on Linux desktop. Its interface is very much similar to that in Microsoft Office and has similar tools as well. We thought – and a lot of other users – that the development of WPS office for Linux has stopped a long […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh June 18, 2017December 23, 2018
Debian 9 Stretch Released, Bringing A Lot Of Updates After around 2 and half years of continues development, the Debian team has finally marked the Stretch release as stable. Releasing it as the current Debian operating system. Debian 9 Stretch was announced as the upcoming development release in November, 2014. As of 17 June, 2017, the distribution was released. The following changes were most noticeable: New […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh June 17, 2017June 21, 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 Released, Not Much Changed Canonical finally announced the release of Ubuntu 17.04. Codenamed “Zesty Zapus”. In general, there doesn’t exist any new features or important updates. Just newer packages with bugs fixed and problems addressed from previous releases. So, What Was Changed In Ubuntu 17.04? PowerPC architecture support is no longer available in Ubuntu 17.04. Instead of using a […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh April 13, 2017December 23, 2018