Can Rocky Linux Be Used as a Desktop Workstation? It has been two years now since Red Hat dropped the red letter for CentOS, and shifted focus towards CentOS Stream. The world has moved then to distributions like Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE and others. All of these distributions are fairly good alternatives for CentOS in the server world, and perhaps Rocky Linux is the […] December 31, 2022December 31, 2022
People Should Really Be Thankful For Open Source Software Developers Users don’t usually realize the value of open source software they get for free. Things like Linux, LibreOffice, Firefox and basically every programming library may be essential in the daily life of each of us. However, we may not actually feel “pleasure” for those software developers who provided us with all of this. They may […] December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
Should GitHub Be Sued For Training Copilot on GPL Code? Just yesterday, GitHub announced that it is working on a new feature for its platform called “Copliot“; which is an artificial coding assistant that predicts the next chunks of code that a programmer may want to write while developing software, and offers to insert it just in the right time and place. The technology, a […] June 30, 2021January 18, 2023
If Coronavirus Happened in ’90s, Proprietary Software Would’ve Been a Disaster She starts the day by opening her Ubuntu-powered laptop, she had an assignment to finish last night, which she did using LibreOffice. Today, there’s a virtual classroom with the teacher, where everyone will be able to easily communicate together using Jitsi, just inside their Firefox web browser. Some educational materials are needed, of course, which […] July 26, 2020October 22, 2021
If You Are a Linux User, Make Your Next PC Powered By AMD While I was searching for a new on-budget laptop to buy, especially after my Lenovo Thinkpad x260 almost died, I did a lot of research specifically about what CPU & GPU vendors to choose, mainly because I use Linux only and I was worried about some rumors of compatibility and other issues. At the end […] July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Linux Distributions Should Enhance how Sudo Asks for Passwords sudo is probably the most famous command in the Linux world. It allows ordinary users to run other commands or programs using the superuser privileges, which will allow them to do system-wide changes or modifications that they weren’t able to do with their ordinary user privileges. The Current Situation By default on all Linux distributions, […] April 22, 2019September 19, 2019
What Ubuntu Needs To Consider To Remain Remarkable Ubuntu is probably the most famous Linux distribution worldwide on the desktop. Since its start in 2004, the distribution was downloaded millions of times. The Ubuntu community has grown up largely as well. Today, there are tons of other Linux distributions which are based on Ubuntu. They definitely made a success in creating this huge userbase. […] April 3, 2017December 23, 2018
Are GTK+ developers destroying Linux desktop with their plans? About GTK+ GTK+ is a graphical user interface toolkit that is used to build applications, developers can use GTK+ to create applications’ interfaces to provide the ease of use to end users. GTK+ is developed by the GNU team which is also leading the development for many other components of the GNOME project since 1999. GTK+ […] July 8, 2016December 23, 2018
