If you are looking for an EMR software for your hospital or medical clinic, then we have some good news for you.
https://fosspost.org/open-source-emr/
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Top contributors to GTK 4
https://puri.sm/posts/proud-to-be-top-contributor-to-gtk4/
https://puri.sm/posts/proud-to-be-top-contributor-to-gtk4/
Purism
Proud to Be Top Contributor to GTK4 – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
This is a little bit of an old news, but FYI ProtonVPN has a new VPN client for Linux: https://protonvpn.com/blog/protonvpn-linux-app
You can check some other Linux VPN providers we covered in this post: https://fosspost.org/linux-vpn-clients-providers/
You can check some other Linux VPN providers we covered in this post: https://fosspost.org/linux-vpn-clients-providers/
Proton VPN
Proton VPN now offers the most advanced free Linux VPN app
ProtonVPN has a new official Linux app with a stylish and fully featured graphical user interface.
Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021
https://fosspost.org/firefox-may-have-lost-12-percent-of-users/
https://fosspost.org/firefox-may-have-lost-12-percent-of-users/
FOSS Post
Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021
Firefox is the default web browser installed on most Linux distributions. It is a well-known browser by Mozilla that respects user privacy by design, and
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The same company which bought Audacity and tried to secretly insert telemetry, is now threatening a software developer over copyright issues with a tool he developed to download music scores from MuseScore.com: https://musescore.com/theotherjthistle/removing-all-of-my-scores-from-musescore
See the (edited) discussion at: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335
See the (edited) discussion at: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335
Audacity Developers Apologize, Revise Controversial Privacy Policy
https://fosspost.org/audacity-developers-apologize-revise-controversial-privacy-policy/
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FOSS Post
Audacity Developers Apologize, Revise Controversial Privacy Policy
20 days ago, FOSS Post was one of the first media outlets to publish about the new privacy policy for Audacity; a popular open source audio editor. In the old
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix
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Element raises $30M to boost Matrix | Matrix.org
Open source project management tools, for freelancers, companies or organizations.
https://fosspost.org/open-source-project-management/
https://fosspost.org/open-source-project-management/
FOSS Post
Top Open Source Project Management Software
Several open source project management tools have matured enough to be able to compete with proprietary software. Here we list some of them.
This is a little bit outside our scope, but did you know that your printer prints tracking dots to everything you print? Check this out if you are interested in your privacy.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
Bbc
Why printers add secret tracking dots
They’re almost invisible but contain a hidden code – and now their presence on a leaked document has sparked speculation about their usefulness to FBI investigators.
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A security vulnerability was discovered in Ubuntu's Snapcraft: https://blog.ret2.io/2021/08/04/snapcraft-injection/
RET2 Systems Blog
Snapcraft Packages Come With Extra Baggage
Several months ago I found an issue (now CVE-2020-27348) with Ubuntu’s new package management system, Snapcraft. This bug introduced a classic pattern of ins...
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html?
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF
Lessons learned of 15 years writing SumatraPDF, a great, open source, PDF, ebook, comic book reader for Windows