Improve your privacy with these ways of reducing spying and snooping on your daily life. This article is part of the Linux for Starters series.
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Author: Steve Emms
Excellent Utilities: Deskreen – live streaming desktop to a web browser
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Yammer
Yammer is a social-networking platform designed for communication and collaboration within organizations. Here’s the best open source alternatives.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Gaming – Part 17
There is a wide and ever growing range of native Linux games available, but given the range, there are a number of locations where you pick up games.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Try Different Desktops – Part 16
We explore different desktop environments you can try without installing a different flavour of Ubuntu. There’s KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Budgie.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – August 2021 Updates
August 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Managing Users – Part 15
We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.
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Conditional formatting, WOPI support, new scaling options, and other improvements in ONLYOFFICE Docs 6.4
ONLYOFFICE has released version 6.4 of the ONLYOFFICE Docs.
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Excellent Utilities: broot – next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher
broot is a utility that gives an overview of a directory, and much much more.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft GitHub
This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft. We launch the series with GitHub.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Maintain your System – Part 14
This article explains ways to keep your system running in tip-top condition.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft’s Products and Services
This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.
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Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command
lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.
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Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Mastodon Clients
Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Manipulating Files – Part 13
This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.
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lfs – list your filesystems
lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Understanding the File System – Part 12
Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security.
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