TLP is a free open source, feature-rich and command line tool for advanced power management, which helps to optimize battery life in laptops powered by Linux. It runs on every laptop brand, and ships in […]
Need a quick google from the terminal? Yep, along with other crazy things found along the way to almost truly negate the need for a graphical desktop, Googler is the tool you want to use […]
Like some other Windows apps, their Linux equivalent say are either non existent, or run poorly due to lack of love from their authors. But that’s all slowly beginning to change, like our recent post […]
Spotify hasn’t always played too nicely with Linux, unless you’re using the web client. But thanks to a new snap package, you can get the full-fat Spotify experience that Windows and MacOS users receive. This […]
Linux Mint is a very well known desktop version of Linux that’s suitable for the everyperson as a drop-in replacement for a Windows or Mac computer. At the time of writing this article, Linux Mint […]
I met up with the team from Portainer.io in my home town of Wellington, New Zealand when they paid a visit to a Linux user group there. Their product is an awesome graphical, browser based docker […]
Here is something that as a system or database admin, you’ll do lots of – create a database, create a database user, and then assign the permission for that user to operate on that database. […]
Foxy little number This week, the web’s been ablaze, on fire even (pardon the pun) with the release of Firefox Quantum. Apparently it’s 2x faster and uses 30% less memory than Chrome. In today’s just […]
Yep, you can soon use a Samsung Mobile phone as a fully fledged Linux PC running Ubuntu. Sit it on the Samsung Dock, which is attached to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and et voila! […]
Quick howto: List all installed packages in Linux In today’s quick ‘just the examples’ howto, we show you how to find out what packages are installed on your Linux system with one simple command. Depending […]
