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FOSS Post is a high-quality online magazine about Linux and open source software. This channel posts daily news from all over the web too.

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Large publishing houses have controlled the scientific society for decades, they impose fees to access articles and publish them with little value added in return.

Open Access, however, is changing all of that for good.
https://fosspost.org/open-access-publications-journals/
Unlike other tech publishers we have opted to provide all our content for free, so that everyone has equal access to the open source/Linux related knowledge.

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We have completed the transfer of FOSS Quiz into our main website!

Come now and challenge your friends into taking many quizzes related to Linux and open source software, and see who scores more!

https://fosspost.org/quizzes/
nano 6.0 released: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-12/msg00005.html

One of the best command line editors, and which users can easily exit! 😁
People Should Really Be Thankful For Open Source Software Developers

https://fosspost.org/be-thankful-for-open-source-developers/
TikTok offical streaming software was found to be nothing but an illegal fork of OBS (Open Broadcaster Suite): https://twitter.com/Naaackers/status/1471494415306788870

OBS is licensed under GPL, so TikTok should release the source code as well, but they didn't.
ReactOS 0.4.14 released.
https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0414-released/

It is an open source OS compatible with Windows standards, ensuring the same apps can run on it.
Enlightment 0.25 released: https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2021-12-26-enlightenment-0.25.0

It is an open source lightweight desktop.
Yes you may like the Apple hardware, but have you considered installing Linux on it regardless?

https://fosspost.org/linux-vs-macos-os-x/
HP Japan branch removed 77TB of data (One and half days of customer data) because of an issue using the "find" command.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734021

See how important it is to master the Linux command line? 🙊