In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

What if sharing and managing files didn’t have to involve bloated software, subscription fees, or convoluted setups? Imagine a tool that’s lightweight, open source, and powerful enough to handle ...

In addition to being free and open-source, LibreOffice offers other benefits, like more document privacy than Microsoft 365 ...

The age-old debate over Android and iOS may never reach a fruitful conclusion. However, one way Android has always been superior to iOS is in its ease of installing applications. Android applications ...

There was a time when I felt it was my divine right to access any computer I wanted, to crack any DRM, to break through any encryption, and to make the walls of digital walled gardens fall at my feet.

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

File conversion is the silent killer of productivity. We have all been there: needing to turn a .webp into a .png, a .flac into an .mp3, or a document into a simple markdown file, only to be met with ...