The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Lernstick 12News: openSUSE updating its branding, openSUSE 15.4 nears its end of life, FreeBSD 12.x reaches its end of life, Debian pauses update…
Read MorePreload is an intelligent tool that can significantly speed up application launch times in Ubuntu. This guide covers the basics of installing preload, configuring it to suit your usage patterns, and understanding how it works to pre-fetch and cache you…
Read MoreIntel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to plagiarise myself, the reaction to it has been off the charts (in a good way). The app is…
Read More Good evening! This evening, a note on high-dynamic-range (HDR)
histograms.problemHow should one record garbage collector pause times?A few options present themselves: you could just record the total pause
time. Or, also record the total number of c…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Linux Mint team have announced the release of a new development snapshot, Linux Mint 21.3 Beta. The new beta release introduces some changes to the way the distribution boots, in par…
Read MoreKernel tuning with sysctl in Ubuntu can significantly boost system performance. This guide explains how to use sysctl for optimizing kernel parameters, covering key settings for network performance, memory management, and system stability, tailored for…
Read MoreEager to get your hands on the next Linux Mint release? You can, as a beta build is now available to download. Linux Mint 21.3 beta isn’t production ready (it’s a beta) so in theory you shouldn’t be installing this as your main OS. Ho…
Read MoreThis is beginner’s guide shows how to install and setup Waydroid to run full Android system as well as Android applications in Ubuntu. I’ve written about this by using Anbox, which is however no longer in active development. This is a re-write with free and open-source ‘Waydroid’, which is a container-based approach to run […]
Read MoreThis guide covers the essentials of customizing and disabling system logging in Ubuntu. Discover how to adjust log levels, create custom log files, and selectively disable logging using the rsyslog service, ensuring an optimal balance between system pe…
Read MoreInstalling and using Jami to give you a walkthrough of how it works, and what you can expect from it.
Read MoreVirtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop-sharing protocol allowing you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this guide, I’ll show you step-by-step how to install VNC Server on the Debian 12 server.
Read MoreShare your expectations regarding open source jobs.
Read MoreThe first point release to GNOME Shell 45 only hit Ubuntu 23.10 at the end of last month, and now a second one is already on its way! GNOME Shell 45.2 was released upstream at the start of December, now Ubuntu’s developers have packaged it up and…
Read MoreNetdata is an open-source, extensible, and real-time monitoring system for servers, containers, and applications. Follow our guide to install Netdata with Nginx as a reverse proxy on the AlmaLinux 9 server.
Read More Today, a followup to yesterday’s note with some more details on V8’s new
young-generation implementation, minor mark-sweep or MinorMS.A
caveat again: these observations are just from reading the code; I
haven’t run these past the MinorMS authors yet,…
Syncthing is a secure and open-source file synchronization program for multiple platforms, such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Solaris, Darwin and BSD. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Syncthing on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.
Read MoreTransmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent client, announced a new bug-fix 4.0.5 release a day ago. The release fixed the following bugs: the IP address field in UDP announces were not encoded in network byte order. json string serializer improperly escaping characters decreased download speeds for people who set a low upload bandwidth limit. magnet data invalidates […]
Read MoreTo apply font smoothing on Tailwind elements, the “antialiased” and “subpixel-antialiased” classes are used for fixing the rough edges of the text characters.
Read MoreYou can add HDMI Input to Raspberry Pi using HDMI Capture Card and then use terminal or third-party application like OBS to view other system displays.
Read MoreTo zoom in and out on Mac, pinch in and out. However, to use the Zoom accessibility feature on Mac there are various approaches.
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