So, you are having issues with battery life on linux. Then head over to tlp project. […] TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every …

Tracer finds outdated running applications in your system. Home page : Tracer Home page. To install : sudo dnf install tracer Once you have done that, after every dns update/upgrade you would see a …

ionice is utility provided by the package util-linux. Description of util-linux: […] […] With the help of this utility, you can set the scheduler priority for your IO scheduling upto …

So, the other day, I wanted to have squid store its pid in the regular ‘var/run’ directory. Good simple enough – just add the following to “/etc/squid/squid.conf” : […] pid_filename …

In the recent versions of Fedora/Ubuntu, I found that if the DHCP server assigns a reserved address, the address is not applied to the system. Finally I found that adding the below in …

To test your speed you can use speetest-cli. Here is the description: […] Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net […] and to install and test: sudo yum …

CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog, and more. For installation sudo yum install ccze and …

To install: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install nomacs </div> </td> </tr> nomacs is a very light weight viewer for images with some …

If you are concerned about the battery life on your Linux laptop, then you should consider using tlp. tlp customizes your Linux distribution for maximum battery life and thus helps improving battery …

However much you stress on the importance of backupm people will forget about keeping it. So, if you do need a completely automated and simple backup then consider using “Back In Time“. Description: …

If you are accessing you Linux machine from VNC then you can try x2go. Pretty straight forward installation, with packages available for both Ubuntu and Fedora and most other common distros as well. …

Recently there was a utility released called unar, a open source replacement for unar. Description:: […] The command-line utilities lsar and unar are capable of listing and extracting files …