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GitHub Copilot is a new feature underway from GitHub to suggest possible code snippets for programmers while coding. But is it ethical?

Just today morning, freenode pulled the trigger on their servers and removed all channels, all users, all settings… Everything. And they say that they have restarted the network and will move to a new “fork”.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota secretly tried to add security vulnerabilities to Linux kernel, but they were caught and banned.

in today’s article we’ll see some good use cases of Snaps and how they are easing the life of users and developers across many fields in the open source world.

An open source ERP is a software system that is available under one of the open source licenses, such as GPL or MIT. It allows you to host your own instance of that software, and modify it and use it however you like, according to the terms of that license.

Linux Mint 20 is the winner of our award for best Linux distribution in 2020. Come see why we've chosen Linux Mint.

Today, Telegram’s product manager and Co-founder Pavel Durov announced that the platform is approaching 500 million active users, and that they no longer can keep it ad-free. Starting from 2021, they will serve ads that are “user-friendly, respects privacy and allows us to cover the costs of servers and traffic”.

FOSS Quiz is a central platform for taking various quizzes about open source software, so that interested users can try to answer these quizzes and learn much more about the respective project/software in the process, in a fun and interactive way.

Today we’ll see some ways in which the average users of open source software can contribute to these projects, even if they have no experience at all.

GTK 4.0 is finally here with many updates and features, but some challenges are arising for the projects which just switched to GTK 3.X.

In shocking news the CentOS project announced today that 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, 2020.

Editor's Note: The actual date CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will be terminating CentOS 8 updates is on the 31st of December, 2021.

Despite being an unmaintained software that didn’t get any similar quality features that its rival LibreOffice was receiving over the period of 10 years, OpenOffice is still being downloaded more than 1.5 million times per month, as shown on the project’s page on SourceForge. Which is mind-boggling.

Looking for user communities and online forums is one of the very first things any new open source user would normally do after making the switch. These communities can be useful either to provide technical help or just general discussion about various topics in the open source world. Let us together explore some possible online open source communities to join.

So what to do in this long time of quarantine? A Linux user answer to that question would be simply trying a bunch of interesting Linux distributions in order to enjoy the time passing by.

In fact, companies can be one of the most benefiting entities from open source, due to many reasons and factors which we’ll be explaining today.

Open source Zoom alternatives are many, but can they compete in terms of concurrent number of users? We find out.

CoreCtrl is a free and open source program to enhance gaming experience for Linux users on AMD CPUs & GPUs.

We’ll go today in a review of EndeavourOS 2020.09.20 and what to expect of it. TL;DR: It is a good distribution for anyone who wants an easy, minimal Arch installation.

So instead of paying huge $$$ for proprietary CAD software such as AutoCAD and others, you may would like to give these open source solutions a shot.

We’ll show you how you can divide a large PDF file (say 500 pages) into much smaller PDF files (E.g 100 PDF files where each one of them is 5 pages long).