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The newly released Linux Mint 20 doesn’t have Snap support enabled by default. Sooner or later, you may encounter a situation where an application version is only available as Snap package and then you need to enable Snap support. If you go about enabling Snap in Mint 20 like you do in other Linux distributions, […]

Brief: RecApp is a simple open-source screen recorder tool. It doesn’t boast of huge features but gives you enough to record your screen with a simple user interface. We have plenty of screen recorders available for Linux. Abhishek prefers to use Kazam while I like using SimpleScreenrecorder. Neither of us use the GNOME’s built-in screen […]

Removing the background is one of the most used graphic design procedures. There could be many reasons why you would want to do that. For example, you don’t like the background, you want to add the image to another background, or you simply want to make the image transparent. When you make the image background […]

Purism is well-known for its privacy and security focused hardware and software while utilizing open-source technologies. Not to forget the latest Purism Librem Mini. After a good success with Librem 15 and 13 series laptops, Purism has unveiled Librem 14. Librem 14 looks like a perfect laptop for an open-source enthusiast who’s concerned about the […]

openSUSE Leap 15.2 has finally landed with some useful changes and improvements. Also, considering the exciting announcement of Closing the Leap Gap, the release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 brings us one step closer to SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) binaries being integrated to openSUSE Leap 15.3 next. Let’s take a look at what has changed and […]

Brief: In this LibreOffice tip, you’ll learn to create the famous Pareto chart in Calc. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 Rule, The Law of the Vital Few and The Principle of Factor Sparsity, illustrates that 80% of effects arise from 20% of the causes – or in layman’s terms – 20% of […]

Ikey Doherty, the developer who once created the independent Linux distribution Solus has announced his new project: Serpent OS. Serpent OS is a Linux distribution that DOES NOT want to be categorized as “lightweight, user-friendly, privacy-focused Linux desktop distribution”. Instead, Serpent OS has “different goals from the mainstream offering”. How? Read on. Serpent OS: The […]

Linux Mint is easily one of the best Linux distributions out there and especially considering the features of Linux Mint 20, I’m sure you will agree with that. In case you missed our coverage, Linux Mint 20 is finally available to download. Of course, if you’ve been using Linux Mint for a while, you probably […]

If you have been following It’s FOSS for some time, you might have noticed that I publish news articles like Ubuntu XYZ version has reached end of life (EoL). This end of life is one of those essential concepts that every Ubuntu user should be aware of. This is why I decided to write this […]

There are many reasons you may want to crop an image in GIMP. You may want to remove useless borders or information to improve your image, or you may want the focus of the final image to be a specific detail for example. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to cut out an image […]