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What is an Open Source ERP? ERP is an abbreviation for “Enterprise resource planning”. They are software systems used to do the work that the company needs from day to day. You can think of it as the software responsible for managing the company’s activities. Business systems are very useful in allowing various units and …

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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+ …

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What’s the news? As of August 2023, the number of active Firefox users around the world has dropped to 176 million users. A far cry from the end of 2018 when it had 244 million active users. This means that the Firefox browser has roughly lost 70 million active users in the last five years. …

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There are many reasons why you might want to take a screenshot on Linux: To showcase a problem, share something on your screen with a friend, or capture something appearing on your screen for memory. In any case, you will need to use special software for this task. And in this detailed article, we will …

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PeppermintOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution that aims to offer users a minimal desktop, while shipping with what’s “enough” for most users, and nothing more. While it is not entirely stated in the project goals, the “minimal” part has led this distribution to be very suitable for old computers and other low-resource machines. It is …

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A proposal by a Red Hat engineer is causing controversy in the Fedora community, which is related to the addition of opt-out telemetry to the Fedora desktop workstation edition. The proposal describes a privacy-preserving data collection mechanism that could help the developers know more about their users and how they interact with Fedora, including various GNOME …

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3 long years have passed since the CentOS project – directed by Red Hat after being acquired by IBM – announced the shift towards CentOS Stream and ending support for its regular CentOS releases. A lot has happened since. Derivative communities emerged like Rocky Linux, Alma Linux and others. And the community’s trust in Red …

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Social media addiction is a huge problem in many parts of the world. The average internet user now spends around 2:27 hours each day on social media, and this, in turn, causes a significant number of other psychological problems to human beings. You should start your own journey to get rid of that addiction, and we …

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zRAM is a Linux kernel module that allows the creation of Swap devices on memory. But the catch is that it does not just create them there; it also compresses them so that the system can store more data in memory, which allows accessing this data much faster than a traditional swap on SSD or …

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On the 13th of March, 2023, the Kali Linux team announced the availability of a new version of their security-focused Linux distribution, named “Kali Linux Purple”. The new distribution is aimed at defensive security. “Defensive” not in the sense of simply protecting your personal computer for anonymity like Qubes OS and Tails, but in the …

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Fedora releases a new version approximately every 6 months. Each new version is supported with updates for 13 months in total. The distribution is a good place to get the latest stable software and technologies consistently. The latest stable version is currently Fedora 38, you can download it from the Fedora official website. 16 Things …

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Whenever you create a new file, whether using your office application, digital camera or video editor, a set of metadata fields are – most of the time – created as well on your new file. These metadata fields are hidden and you can’t see them in the file itself, but they might be revealing a …

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GNOME Boxes is a utility that easily allows you to create “virtual boxes” where you can run any operating system or Linux distribution virtually on your system. The utility is installed by default on many Linux distributions. If you don’t have it installed on your system, then you can run the following command (for Ubuntu) …

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Few days ago, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, celebrated its distribution’s 18th birthday by releasing Ubuntu 22.10. The same day in which Ubuntu 4.10 was released back in 2004. It means that Ubuntu is officially no longer underage! (jk). Anyway, the new release contains a lot of changes and important updates to discuss. And in …

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AI tools have exploded in our times. Repetitive tasks that used to take countless hours before and a lot of people to finish, now take few minutes to complete. Thanks to the advancement in artificial intelligence and the related fields. Today we are introducing a nice tool for Linux users, called Upscayl. It is an …

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“Burn My Windows” is a GNOME and KDE extension that allows you to play many different window effects when you close or open any window on your system. It’s quite fantastic, and brings back the memories of the good old Compiz and gnome 2.X, allowing you once again to play window effects on Linux. Here …

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Xfce 4.18 was released on December 16, 2022. The lovely desktop environment has been around for around 25 years now (since 1997!). A lot of Linux and other Unix-like systems users like Xfce for how lightweight and straightforward it is. It just doesn’t get in the way of the user like some other desktops do. It …

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Looking to the default blue light emitted by computers all the time is not recommended; as it leads to eye strain and other health issues. You will notice this the most if you try to use your computer at night, and you will get blinded by the strong bright blue light coming out of it. …

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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 …

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It’s that time of the year again, where we have to choose the best Linux distribution released so far. As a reminder, each year at FOSS Post we select the best desktop Linux distribution released according to specific criteria, such as: The distribution’s ability to work as a daily driver for the average Linux user. …

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