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Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services. Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Office. What are the best open source alternatives to Office 365?

We will walk you through setting up a virtual machine running openSUSE. The words host and guest distinguish the software running on the machine from the software that runs on the virtual machine. For the purpose of this article, the host machine is running Ubuntu, the guest machine is openSUSE.

KeenWrite is a Java-based desktop text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and formulas.

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Though primarily an email client, Outlook also includes such functions as calendaring, task managing, contact managing, note-taking, journal logging, and web browsing. Here's our recommended free and open source alternatives.

FLB Music is billed as a ‘beautiful cross platform music player’. It’s written in TypeScript and uses Vue.js,

Let’s say you simply wish to trim a piece of footage, you might want to consider Video Trimmer. It’s software written in Rust and uses FFmpeg for performing the trimming. The software’s video preview relies on GStreamer.

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) is a file hosting service and synchronization service operated by Microsoft as part of its web version of Office. Users can upload Microsoft Office documents to OneDrive. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives to OneDrive.

This article looks at a common activity; accessing a Windows PC desktop from your new Linux machine over a local home network.

Komikku is a GTK-based manga reader for GNOME. The application is is written in Python.

There are lots of alternatives to Bing. We only recommend the best free alternatives to Bing in this article.

Improve your privacy with these ways of reducing spying and snooping on your daily life. This article is part of the Linux for Starters series.

Deskreen is free and open source software that lets you use any device with a web browser as a secondary screen. This device can be a wide range of hardware such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, or a notebook. And you can connect as many devices as required.

Yammer is a social-networking platform designed for communication and collaboration within organizations. Here’s the best open source alternatives.

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. The stated goal of the project is to provide secure yet easily accessible communication.

In the eyes of many computer users, Linux is perceived as largely functional, mostly restricted to running servers, office tasks and web browsing. However, a wide and ever growing range of native Linux games are available, but given the range, there are a number of locations where you pick them up. Whatever type of game you like, there’s lots to choose from including the latest games as well as classics and remastered titles.

Cozy is different to the music players we’ve covered. While it plays music the software is geared to playing audio books. Cozy is free and open source software. It’s written in Python.

Microsoft Project is project management software product sold as a subscription service. Fortunately there are excellent free and open source alternatives.

We explore different desktop environments you can try without installing a different flavour of Ubuntu. There’s KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Budgie.

Emulation is the practice of using a program (called an emulator) on a PC to mimic the behaviour of a home computer or a video game console, in order to play (usually retro) games on a computer. The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers based on the Motorola 0.89 MHz 6809E processor and 32 and 64 KB of RAM respectively.

Microsoft OneNote is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.