There are many factors that can affect the speed of a website, and one of them is the server performance – how fast the server can render the web page and serve it to the browser. While there are many ways to improve the speed of a WordPress site, there are also server tools that … Read more
Bumblebee is a software tool for Linux with the aim to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions. Optimus is a hybrid display technology where the integrated GPU renders the display while the dedicated GPU (in this case, an nVidia graphic card) does all the processing and sends the output to the integrated … Read more
There are easy ways to connect to your VPN from Ubuntu. A lot of VPNs provide excellent Linux clients. Even if they don’t, you can use the Network Manager applet to set up a VPN connection. However, if you want to connect without a GUI or you want your connection to run automatically as a … Read more
Netdata is a tool used for health monitoring and distributed real time performance of machines. It gives insights on anything that happens to a system through web dashboards. Apart from its major function, Netdata has a number of advantages. It is very lightweight, meaning that it uses little CPU cycles and memory. Netdata comes with … Read more
Malware is a malicious software whose goal is to disrupt the smooth and normal operation of a computer system or server, collect private information or just gain unauthorized access to the system/server. Linux systems are known to have few malicious software compared to Windows, but that doesn’t mean Linux users should be at ease. Most … Read more
Color pickers are tools that help you identify and pick colors from your desktop. This is very useful when doing image editing, web development work or other creative endeavors. There are several ways to pick colors on the Linux desktop, but we will show you three specific tools that will get the job done for … Read more
Are you worried that your Linux computer may be infected with malware? Have you ever checked? While Linux systems tend to be less susceptible to malware than Windows, they can still be infected. Many times they’re less obviously compromised, too. There are a handful of excellent open-source tools to help you check if your Linux … Read more
A major part of securing a Linux system is locking down unused ports to stop them from being accessed and ultimately hijacked by attackers. Linux systems are built to be servers, so attackers would attempt to use a compromised system that way, even if that system was set up to be a desktop. Through the … Read more
For a long time people have been trying to get Android apps running on Linux. After all, it makes a whole lot of sense. Android does use the Linux kernel. So why has it been so hard then? Aside from the Linux kernel, Linux and Android are radically different systems. Linux uses the GNU user … Read more
Playing music from the command line isn’t the right option for everyone. MPD is a command-line option for music playback that requires manual configuration. Some people will love that. It’ll drive others insane. It all depends on how you prefer to use your Linux PC. MPD and NCMPCPP are a lightweight super combo for playing … Read more