Interested in giving something back for the open source community, but don't have the necessary experience to do so? Here's how you can contribute without technical experience.
https://fosspost.org/contributing-to-open-source-for-dummies/

Use this open source store to throw away Google Play and avoid needing a Google account to install apps on your android phone.
https://fosspost.org/aurorastore-google-play-alternative/

GNOME Foundation has picked a "professional shaman" to be their executive director. It is unclear whether she has used the GNOME desktop once in her life before.
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4740497/gnome-foundation-hires-professional-shaman-as-new-executive-director

Something to add about weird life choices of GNOME...

This is an interesting combination of tools to use in order to create educational screencasts on Linux.

See how.
https://fosspost.org/flameshot-educational-screencasts-on-linux/

More updates about COSMIC: The new DE under development by System76.
https://blog.system76.com/post/locked-and-loaded-with-new-cosmic-de-updates

That's 2GB of downloads for yea. 😅

LeechBlock is an open source browser addon that can help you fight your social media addiction on Linux desktop.
https://fosspost.org/limit-social-media-time-browser-addon/

Have a nostalgia to Windows XP and 7 days? Here's how you can install their themes on your Linux desktop.
https://fosspost.org/make-linux-look-like-windows/

Did you know that there is a hidden metadata attached with every file, photo and multimedia file you share with others? Learn how to uncover them on Linux with this tool.
https://fosspost.org/view-and-remove-file-metadata-on-linux/

Geany 2.0 open source code editor has been released.
https://www.geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/

Here is a good tutorial for power users on how they can create their own system tray indicators for various purposes.

You should try it once in a lifetime at least :)
https://fosspost.org/custom-system-tray-icon-indicator-linux/

Save one cup of coffee per month, and spend it to support your favorite source of open source articles and news: https://patreon.com/fosspost

You'll get an ad-free account on our website when you do so. 😘

Firefox 119 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/119.0/releasenotes/

Many changes in this release.

This is a somehow old report we worked on regarding the cost of proprietary solutions, and how governments around the world simply spend that money to get an OS with an office suite.

One of the reasons why we support free software.
https://fosspost.org/governments-and-spending-on-software/

Are you a resident in the US and need to fill your forms for taxes? Here's a couple of open source solutions that you can go with instead of TurboTax by Intuit and other proprietary solutions.
https://fosspost.org/open-source-tax-software-filling-us-taxes/

Do you want to learn the very basics of the command line, and how to use it to do tasks? Read this detailed explanatory article on how to start.
https://fosspost.org/linux-command-line-basics-examples/

Rocky Linux, the enterprise Linux distribution which is often used in servers and in the cloud, can also be a good desktop operating system. Read more on how to tweak it for this end.
https://fosspost.org/using-rocky-linux-as-desktop-workstation/

Browse a directory of open source apps on android using F-droid store.
https://fosspost.org/fdroid-open-source-google-play-store-alternative/

Linux kernel 6.6 has been released: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZuU984NWVgP4snp8sEt4Ux5Mp_pxAN5MNV9VpcGUo+A@mail.gmail.com/

Check for the new version in your distribution' repositories.

One of the good open source applications that you can use on android to replace the official Youtube client.
https://fosspost.org/newpipe-open-source-youtube-client-alternative-android/

Discover some hidden settings in your GNOME desktop with this tool.
https://fosspost.org/dconf-gsettings-gnome/