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What are the best open-source fonts (sources & families)?

As a content creator, I need to choose fonts carefully, especially concerning licenses, and this is why I mainly resort to using fonts with open-source licenses that allow me to publish my modest designs without fear of legal prosecution.

myTUXEDO, a Nextcloud based storage offered with TUXEDO devices

TUXEDOComputers delivers plenty of free services and products with their Linux hardware, including but not limited to TUXEDO OS, TUXEDO Control Center, and myTUXEDO cloud storage. myTUXEDO is an open-source Nextcloud-based cloud storage service developed by TUXEDOComputers. It has a dozen of productivity and security features...

How to optimize your laptop battery life on Linux?

Commonly, you get shorter battery life (run time on a full charge) on GNU Linux compared to other operating systems, as your favorite distribution is probably not optimized for laptops, and your laptops are not Linux-optimized. However, as a Linux user, you still can get a better laptop battery life thanks to TLP.

Top 5 open-source virtualization software

The Linux ocean is rich in distributions. Therefore we need technologies that help us dive into it and discover its different distributions before installing them physically. Among the technologies that facilitate such a process is virtualization software.

How to compare images & videos on Linux?

As a content creator (I think I am), I often need to compare images after compressing them or changing their format to ensure their quality before uploading them to this humble blog. Manual comparison of images and videos is annoying, so we need a tool that makes such a process easy, and here comes the Identity app into play.

Linux Apps Tour: Flameshot, an open-source screenshot software with a built-in editor

Flameshot is a free, open-source, cross-platform tool for taking and annotating screenshots. It comes with a feature-rich built-in editor to immediately customize your screenshots.

Mozilla released Firefox 111 with various vulnerability patches, improved Relay, and more!

Firefox is a free, open-source, cross-platform web browser developed by the Mozilla foundation with security and privacy in mind. Firefox browser receives updates and improvements constantly, and this time Mozilla could not wait more than a month from the release of version 110 to announce the release of Firefox 111.

The best open-source 2FA apps for Linux & Android

As it is known, not all apps, including two-factor authentication apps, are open source and support Linux. To put you at ease, I present to you my list of the best open-source two-factor authentication apps for Linux & Android.

TUXEDO OS 2 is out of the incubator with more features than promised!

In previous articles, I reviewed the first version of TUXEDO OS and highlighted the promises made by TUXEDOComputers regarding the second version. At the end of the last week, TUXEDOComputers announced the release of TUXEDO OS 2, after three continuous months of development, with improvements and updates that exceeded promises.

Linux Foundation offers up to 50% off on Linux certifications & bootcamps

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to supporting the growth and promotion of Linux, free software, and open-source technologies and is the official sponsor of the Linux creator Linus Torvalds. The Foundation provides the Linux and open-source communities with many high-quality services, most notably the online training and certification program provided by Linux community leaders and senior developers from open-source communities. As a promotion strategy and to expand the community of Linux experts, the Linux Foundation periodically offers massive discounts on this program.

Plasma 5.27 is released, marking the end of Plasma 5's reign. It's time to hand over the throne!

KDE plasma is one of the top Linux desktop environments. For me, it is the top. Plasma is free, open source, feature-rich, and highly customizable DE. The KDE team develops Plasma extensively and thoughtfully to offer us a fresh and stable desktop experience. On February 14, the efforts of dozens of KDE developers and contributors in the past months culminated in Plasma 5.27 release.

COSMO JrTrack, a kid smartwatch that helps parents keep their kids safe

In a world of technology full of risks that threaten children's mental and physical health, no two sane people disagree on the need to protect children without depriving them of discovering the bright side of the world of technology. In addition, children are at risk of being lost or kidnapped. While we know this danger, we are also aware of the psychological effects of keeping kids indoors and ignoring their desire to move and explore. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative solutions that provides peace of mind to parents without depriving their kids of key technology advantages. COSMO's JrTrack is one such innovative solution.

The king of open-source office suites gets a new set of app icons, new features, and plenty of bug fixes

With every update, LibreOffice becomes the best alternative to Microsoft Office and the first choice for Linux users. After six months of continuous development and efforts of 144 contributors (Thank you!), the Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 7.5, which brought many notable improvements.

Linux Apps Tour: Ventoy, a feature-rich utility to create bootable USB

Ventoy is a free, open-source, cross-platform utility for creating bootable USB drives for Linux and Windows. It is feature-rich and supports most system images and computer architectures. This article highlights Ventoy's best features and teaches you how to configure and use this Rufus alternative.

HandBrake 1.6.0, a major release that brings AV1 video encoding

Handbrake is one of the best (for me, it is the best) video transcoder (converter) tools out there. It is free, open-source, and natively supports Linux. In the past few days, the HandBrake team announced the release of HandBrake 1.6.0 with numerous new features and improvements.

Linux Apps Tour: TUXEDO Control Center, a tool to easily control TUXEDO computers!

This article is the beginning of a new promising series through which I aim to shed light on Linux applications that offer distinctive and unique additions and features to Linux users. The start will be with the TUXEDO Control Center application (TCC), which provides many control options on TUXEDO computers, one of which we reviewed in the past few weeks. So what is TUXEDO Control Center? What are the options and features that it provides?

My comprehensive guide to the best Black Friday & Cyber Monday Linux deals

Deals season is here, and it's an opportunity for Linux users (I'm certainly one of them) to power up their Linux experience by purchasing new Linux hardware or services at discounted prices. What I am trying to do in this article is to build a comprehensive guide to the best Linux deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

TUXEDO OS 2 is in the incubator, and it's being fed updates and improvements

Not a month had passed since I wrote about the first version of the TUXEDO OS until the company announced the availability of the TUXEDO OS 2 preview version, which comes with several updates. So what are these updates? And what will we get in the final version?

Tuxedo OS, is it just another Ubuntu-based distro?

TUXEDOComputers has announced the first version of its new Ubuntu-based operating system that comes pre-installed on their Linux devices under the name Tuxedo OS 1. Of course, the new distro is an addition to the Linux community, but what makes Tuxedo OS different from Vanilla Ubuntu or other popular distros? Is it the perfect expected distro?

StarFighter Linux Laptop comes with tons of new and unique features! Available to pre-order in the next few days.

If you are a fan of the Linux OS, you must be happy as I am with the news of the releases of Linux devices. Today's article is one of that news. StarLabs, the British company whose laptops we've reviewed in several articles on this humble blog, has announced a bunch of brief detail about their upcoming laptop, the StarFighter, which will be available to pre-order in the next few days.

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