If you are a gamer, use your setup for video editing, or otherwise rely on heavy GPU usage, you might be interested in how well your Graphics Processing Unit would perform under extreme stress. The creators of the Unigine gaming engine has made a set of beautiful tools for the purpose. The basic version is … Read more
There is a common myth that Linux disks never need defragmentation at all. In most cases, this is true, due mostly to the excellent journaling filesystems Linux uses (ext2, 3, 4, btrfs, etc.) to handle the filesystem. However, in some specific cases, fragmentation might still occur. If that happens to you, the solution is fortunately … Read more
There was a time when the majority of people used a dial-up connection to access the Internet, and the speed was slow. This was when download manager applications were at the peak of their popularity, primarily because they accelerated downloads, not to mention the ability to resume downloads in case of a connection hiccup. However, … Read more
You may have experienced system lags, heavy swap usage, or low memory issues in your Linux system. A usual advice is to “decrease the swappiness value”, reduce the swap usage. but what is swappiness? And is it really good to tweak it? Note: we won’t go into detail about the swap partition. You can read … Read more
Libreoffice 5.0 was finally released last week with a host of improvements and bug fixes which makes it the best ever iteration of the software and certainly the best free Office Suite out there. New Features and Improvements Some of the new features and under-the-hood fixes contained in this release of LibreOffice include: Improvements to … Read more
Linux offers great educational software and many excellent tools to aid students of all grades and ages in learning and practicing a variety of topics, often interactively. The “Learn with Linux” series of articles offers an introduction to a variety of educational apps and software. Physics is an interesting subject, and arguably the most enjoyable … Read more
If you like continuing your work from where you left off the last time, such as when using multiple workspaces or regularly using the same applications to perform the same tasks arranged in a similar fashion, you would probably like your computer to remember how everything was arranged when you switched it off. Of course, … Read more
There are times when you’re working on multiple tasks in parallel. For example, I have been recently working on reviewing lightweight web browsers for Linux and researching on Smart Credit Cards besides doing my regular work. Although I use different workspaces for different tasks, the problem that I usually face is that the app icons … Read more
Linux offers great educational software and many excellent tools to aid students of all grades and ages in learning and practicing a variety of topics, often interactively. The “Learn with Linux” series of articles offers an introduction to a variety of educational apps and software. Typing is taken for granted by many people; today being … Read more
Antergos is an Arch Linux-based distribution featuring a live environment and a user-friendly graphical installer. It aims to provide a pre-configured Arch environment “for everyone” with sane defaults which is easy to install and use, yet retains the flexibility and features of Arch Linux. According to Wikipedia, “The Galician word Antergos (meaning: ancestors) was chosen … Read more