makedeb, mpm and makedeb-db is a set of tools that allows you to convert Arch Linux PKGBUILD files to DEB packages and install them using APT on Debia | Continue reading
Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) now officially supports Widevine, allowing its users to stream content from popular websites such as Netflix, Amaz | Continue reading
croc is a free and open source command line tool for secure file transfers between computers. | Continue reading
Official Evernote Application For Linux Available For Download (Beta) | Continue reading
22120 is a tool to save your browser history as an offline archive, available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS. | Continue reading
s-tui monitors the CPU frequency, utilization, temperature, fan speeds and power using colored graphs, while also showing performance dips caused by thermal throttling. The tool also has built-in options for stress testing the CPU. | Continue reading
This article explains how to view available WiFi networks, list their channels, link quality, security, signal strength, and more on Linux using the command line. | Continue reading
chkservice is a simplistic systemd unit manager that uses ncurses for its terminal interface. Using it you can enable or disable, and start or stop a systemd unit. It also shows the units status (enabled, disabled, static or masked). | Continue reading
How to completely disable Tracker, so it no longer indexes any files, and stop having any Tracker process running in the background? | Continue reading
Starship is a cross-shell prompt that's minimal but also highly customizable, fast (written in Rust). | Continue reading
Rclone, a free and open source command line cloud storage hub, was updated to version 1.49 with major additions like 4 new backends, including for the much requested Google Photos, and a new experimental web UI. | Continue reading
The latest NVIDIA 435.17 Linux beta driver has added Vulkan and OpenGL+GLX support for PRIME render offload. | Continue reading
Dropbox has partially reverted the change of only supporting Ext4 filesystems on Linux. A Dropbox client update brings back support for ZFS and XFS on 64-bit Linux systems, and eCryptFS and Btrfs on all Linux systems. | Continue reading
Material Shell is a new tiling shell replacement for Gnome Shell that's currently in beta. It's tagline mentions that this extension proposes "a performant and simple opinionated mouse/keyboard workflow to increase daily productivity and comfort", while also following the Materia … | Continue reading
The news that Ubuntu will drop support for the 32-bit x86 architecture was discussed recently by the Wine developers, on the Wine-devel mailing list. The Wine developers are concerned with this news because many 64-bit applications still use a 32-bit installer, or some 32-bit com … | Continue reading
Ubuntu will soon offer Chromium browser as a snap package instead of a regular deb package. This is not only for the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine, but also for the already released Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), and for LTS releases, like Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). | Continue reading
Searching for a way to show a script output on the Gnome Shell panel (top bar), I came across Argos. This Gnome Shell extension does only one thing: it adds a new item with a dropdown menu to the panel, showing the output from a script and exposing functionality. | Continue reading
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) will be released today. Read on if you want to see what new features and improvements are included with this new Ubuntu release. | Continue reading
TLP is a command line advanced Linux power management tool that helps save laptop battery power. It's designed to install and forget about it, TLP taking care of everything automatically. | Continue reading
Users dual booting Windows 10 or 8 and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE and so on, will sometimes noticed that the Windows partition is mounted as read only. | Continue reading
In this article you'll find a very easy to apply fix that will allow installing and running applications that depend on libpng12-0 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Linux Mint 19. | Continue reading
Beginning November 7, 2018, the Dropbox client will only support the Ext4 filesystem on Linux. The news, coming from the Dropbox forums, mentions that the only supported filesystems will be Ext4 for Linux, NTFS for Windows, and HFS+ or APFS for Mac. | Continue reading
On July 7, an AUR package was modified with some malicious code, reminding Arch Linux users (and Linux users in general) that all user-generated packages should be checked (when possible) before installation. | Continue reading
Winepak is a Flatpak repository for Microsoft Windows applications bundled with Wine. Its aim is to "make installing and running [Windows / Wine] applications Just Work", by including the runtimes required to run the software / game under Linux (Wine, etc.). | Continue reading
According to haveibeenpwned.com, the LinuxForums.org website was hacked on the 1st of May 2018, resulting in the disclosure of around 276k unique email addresses. | Continue reading
Nautilus (or Files), the Gnome file manager, received a Git update which removes its ability to launch binaries or programs in general. That means you won't be able to double click binaries, scripts, or desktop files to run them - this includes the ask dialog which lets you choos … | Continue reading