Free software replaced my paid tools—and I barely miss the subscriptions.

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...

I can spend my money on something else!

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

In the face of growing risks from open-source software dependencies, Google Cloud is releasing its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service for Java and Python ecosystems at no cost. Image: ...

It's natural to assume that paid apps offer more features and polished interfaces compared to free ones. Here are five apps ...

In the world of software, free doesn’t always mean limited. Several free applications now outperform paid alternatives, ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

While many proprietary project management tools are available on the market, open-source project management software provides an alternative for those who prefer to use free, customizable and ...