Category: Linux and Open Source

In this post, we will look at a few tools that will help us monitor and determine which processes consume most resources on your Linux machine. Three terminal based tools – atop, htop, and top For the experienced hands, a terminal and “*top” command may be familiar. For those who…

I use the XFCE edition of Manjaro on RPi4. In this post, I will share my thoughts and experiences on using an external drive to boot up Raspberry Pi4. Also find results from benchmarks I have run on this setup.

Upgrading PopOs to Cosmic Desktop Last week, I upgraded my standby laptop to PopOs Cosmic Desktop. PopOs from System76 is a customized Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Their latest version is based around the Cosmic desktop, which promises better UI and performance.  

This post was updated on 2018-08-14

Edit: This post was originally published in 2017 March, and was accompanied with a video. I do recall that the developer of Ubuntu Budgie (David Mohammed) had written to me asking why I thought the distribution was not upto the mark. Since I am unable to find that post anymore,…

In my experience, using, you know, host. I learned about you know host when I was researching for my blog post on different server management panels. You know host was mentioned by a couple of members on low ed. gov, and low in spirit respectively. Today I decided to give…

Terminal Based Programs I am catching up on plans and To Do lists from previous years, The below list I had drawn upu in January 2018. Some of them I use regularly : Focus Writer, and audacity, for example,. Recently I used ffmpeg for converting a big batch of mp3…