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Fediverse: The Future of Open-Source Social Media Platforms

Social media used to be the place where people with similar interests used to interact and post about news/gossip or some thoughts that they want to share. Platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram have dominated the social media landscape with their diverse topics, groups, pages, and Subreddits. Many third-party websites and Linux distributions […]

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Lemoa – A Native Lemmy Client for Linux

Reddit had been one of the best forums on the Internet discussing various topics such as memes, games, and other forms of Internet media as well as technology and even support forums. However, because of the recent API changes announced by Reddit, they will be essentially killing all the third party applications. Most of them

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SSL Certificate Verification Using Shell Scripts

Shell scripting is a powerful tool in the Linux ecosystem. It can help automate repetitive tasks, manipulate data, interact with system APIs, and more. One of the many applications of shell scripting is SSL certificate verification. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that encrypts data sent between a web server and a browser, so

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Cider: A Superior Apple Music Experience on Linux

Apple Music is known to always have the highest quality of music available in terms of bit rate. However, they do not have any native Linux client and their Web UI is also not that great. Cider is an open-source, cross-platform Apple Music client that boasts more features and customizability than the official macOS Music

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GameOutlet – Compare Game Prices on Different Stores

For Windows and Linux gamers alike, Steam is often the preferred destination for purchasing digital games. For Linux gamers, Steam becomes an indisputable choice due to its myriad of Linux-friendly features, courtesy of Valve, the company behind Steam, has added many features which enhances the game downloading and playing experience much easier for any Linux

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Reviving Classics with XEMU: Play Your Favourite Xbox Games on Linux

XEMU is a completely open source Xbox emulator, which you can use to install and play your old collection of Xbox games on the Linux desktop as well as Windows and macOS devices. It also supports a wide variety of controllers, and you can even play Xbox games using Dual sense controllers because of this

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Working with hidden files in Linux

Hidden files in Linux are the files that are not listed when the user runs the ls command. The name of a hidden file starts with a. dot(.) In Linux, not only files, but directories can be hidden as well. Files are hidden in Linux for many reasons. One of them is to make sure

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Netcat Command in Linux – A Complete Guide

Nc or the Netcat command, is a networking command-line tool in Linux. It works like a port scanning tool, a security tool, a network troubleshooting tool, or a network monitoring tool. It is an important utility for system administrators to be aware of and is often referred to as the Swiss army knife of networking

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Navigating the Linux Landscape: Picking the Right Distribution

Because of the open-source nature of the Linux kernel, many companies, and collaborators have created their own Linux distribution, and all of them have unique and great features. But this fragmentation naturally leads to confusion for a new user who just wants to migrate from either macOS or Windows desktop. There is no ‘best’ Linux

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Torrhunt – A simple Torrent search Engine & Browser

Torrents and peer-to-peer file sharing have been one of the major hallmarks of open source initiative. The BitTorrent protocol allows you to share files with strangers on the Internet, as well as privately with your friends. Despite the numerous torrent downloader applications such as qBittorrent and Transmission available on the Linux desktop, users often have

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