I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

Kiwix, the desktop application for browsing offline archives of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other resources, just got an ...

Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025? There will be plenty of big new releases to ...

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

Make searching for files easier with these GUI tools. Each of these apps will work on most distributions. You can install these tools for free. In the early days of ...

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Google’s file manager for Android is working on integrating a viewer for text files. Evidence first appeared in Files by Google version 1.8436.793259964.0-release but the tool is not yet active. When ...

Open Text's recent pullback offers an attractive valuation leading into Q4 earnings despite the company's Q3 revenue miss and lowered guidance. Open Text is aggressively pursuing AI-driven cost ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...