The best Christmas gifts for Linux and FOSS geeks
Oh, my love, we've had our share of tears Oh, my friend, we've had our hopes and fears Oh, my friends, it's been a long hard year But now it's Christmas Yes, it's Christmas Thank God it's Christmas
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Top Best 5 Linux Small Form Factor / NUCS PCs with low TDP for IOT, NAS and Multimedia Servers
Is mini PC still relevant? Short answer - yes, but it all depends on your tasks. Mostly because size matters and using full towers as a silver bullet isn't effective. The power consumption of mini PC's is actually better, so they are more suitable for 24/7
Escaping The Duopoly: Top Best 5 Linux Smartphones Without Performance and Security Excuses
On November 8, 2018, Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire and owner of Amazon, received a message that changed his life: an uncovered affair, a divorce with over $20 billion in exit fees, and a lost reputation. What a significant loss! But we're not judging or even protecting Jeff
Hardware
Top 5 Best OpenWrt Routers for VPN in 2023
OpenWrt - Wireless Freedom. Why it matters?
Hosting
Intel Developer Cloud Review - Cloud with AI & FPGA Superpowers and Tons of Empty Pages
Nowadays the clouds are very popular as an easy & fast way to make money for big companies. Customers don't need to play with Linux shell from the start, because good cloud provides heavy lifting - want a database, load balancer or monitoring? No problem, go get all of it in few clicks.
Kubernetes For The Real Housewives - How To Easily Host Photoprism Photo/Video Gallery on OpenShift
This post is about opportunity: invest small amount of time and get new skills with real application instance that can do some useful tasks for you or your friends: blog, photo gallery, game server etc.
Transforming Connectivity: The Evolution of Iran's Internet Landscape in the Post-Islamic Revolution Era
Introduction The advent of the Internet in Iran has been shaped by significant political developments. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran had made remarkable progress in various sectors, including substantial investments in the industrial field. However, following the revolution, Iran, along with the entire Middle East, experienced significant
Linux
SoftMaker Office 2024: European Office Suite for GNU Linux that gives Microsoft Office a run for its money
All of us have used Microsoft Office, regardless of our ideologies and beliefs about software licensing. Whether at work, school or on a home computer that came pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Those Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations are everyone's nostalgia. I am sure that
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9 Neat Tips to Manage Files on a Computer
How does it feel to spend a couple of hours searching for one single file? What if you realize that you have deleted some of the files accidentally, as they were stored in the wrong folder? Experiencing such situations is tragic, but you can avoid them with little effort. Organizing
Is Viber a Trojan horse? The mass bans of Ukrainian accounts
Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news...
How to prevent IPv6 leak with an OpenVPN client on GNU Linux?
You might want to use a VPN, so that you can browse the Internet from another location, but your ISP provides an IPv6 network which could route traffic differently than an ISP with only IPv4 connectivity.
How to setup a VPN kill switch on Linux for OpenVPN and WireGuard?
This guide will show you how to set up a manual kill switch for OpenVPN in GNU/Linux, with all details, explained. A VPN firewall (or kill switch) kills network connections that are active when there is no active connection on a given system through the use of IPTables, UFW or Firewalld.