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Running Windows apps on Linux is quite the norm for many Linux users, but Microsoft is flipping the table today with plans to run Linux programs on Windows.

Fair code is a new software development model which aims to replace the long-ruling open source model.

We’ll take you today in a tour on some Linux VPN providers, so that you can use them and increase your security and privacy online.

What most people don’t realize is that encryption also provides protection against data restoration, especially on SSDs.

Here’s a list of 7 privacy-preserving extensions to have if you are still going to use Chrome/Chromium browsers anyway. Or maybe you can even use them with the Ungoogled-Chromium browser, which is a better choice.

For those who don’t know, Google Chrome is built on the top of the Google Chromium browser, which is an open source browser released under BSD license having almost the same features as in Google Chrome. Don't use Chrome nor Chromium... Instead, use this fully Google-free Ungoogled-Chromium if you want to stay away from Google's eyes.

Most users sadly use Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication, and they think that it is the only solution in the market. But that’s not true.

Here's a list of 7 Firefox addons to enhance your privacy while browsing the Internet.

Today there are a lot of open source speech-to-text tools and libraries that you can use right now.

To what level did Linux users like these new app package formats? Not much, it seems.

The latest version of BunsenLabs was released just this this month, codenamed Lithium. We downloaded the latest version in order to try it and see how the distribution will perform.

A new version of Scrcpy was released few days ago, so we’ve decided to put our hands on it and see what an average android user can expect from it. We’ll review scrcpy and examine its features.

To answer that, we’ve put our hands on LibreOffice 7.0 to see what’s new in it and how well it can deal with Microsoft Office documents and presentation files.

Today, we’ll go in a walk-through of things to do after installing the newly-released openSUSE Leap 15.2 distribution.

openSUSE 15.2 is an excellent Linux distribution for power users who want to enjoy the ability of fully controlling their systems using a complete tool like YaST2. Version 15.2 of the distribution was released few weeks ago. And as usual, we’ve put our hands on it and tried it to see what’s new and what a user can expect of it. This is a full review of openSUSE 15.2.

BootHole is a newly discovered security vulnerability that affects Linux systems using UEFI Secure Boot feature. But Linux distributions patched it in the worse way possible.

Sometimes you may need to hide a file or folder from your home directory, but without modifying its name (E.g renaming example to .example) and also without removing it or moving it somewhere else. You just want to leave it in the same location, but without seeing it in your file manager view again.

The open source movement has tons of achievements it can be proud of, but one of the most remarkable one of these, which we are watching right now, is how successful the movement was in fulfilling the software demands after Coronavirus.

This is a very simple tutorial that will guide you on how to fix your hardware issues with Linux using a real life scenario, which is the unknown Bluetooth adapter in our case.

We are going to explore the new Linux Mint 20 release (Cinnamon version), and what features and enhancements does it provide.