Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

Once you go out of WinRAR and try something else, you would immediately notice how dated the tool has been. This realization hit me when I switched to a modern open-source alternative that made me ...

However, in late 2025, while searching for Windows tools to automate boring tasks, I came across DropIt, an open-source ...

Enterprises are in love with open-source—a code available for possible modification and redistribution. I’ve talked with 177 enterprises this year, and each one said that open-source software is a ...

The German federal government has chosen local private cloud and open-source file-sync operator Nextcloud as its collaboration and file-sharing platform for 300,000 government users. Nextcloud arrived ...

Okay, I have a directory that consists entirely of source code, and object files( *.f90, *.o). Each object has the same name as the source file it cam e from. Basically, I want to be able to type ...

PDFs have become quite a staple in our digital lives, and it's likely that you use them more often than you realize. Perhaps you're a student doing research for multiple school projects, or possibly ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Update (1/4/2021 2:09 PM ET): We've updated the story to include some responses to questions we sent Rathinavel via email. If you have a Mac and an Android device, you know that transferring files ...