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While PowerTOP was immensely helpful when the Intel open-source project started out in 2007 for reporting untuned kernel parameters and noting what's keeping the CPU from reaching its deeper sleep states, over the past decade Linux has greatly improved when it comes to power management and better behavior out-of-the-box.

As an Android user who runs Linux on their desktop, you have several options for transferring files between your Android phone and Linux computer. Using a USB cable or Bluetooth are two such methods.

The first Android 13 developer preview may have felt a bit underwhelming, but there’s a hidden gem with full virtualization possible on hardware such as the Google Pixel 6 smartphone. What that means is that it is now possible to run virtually any operating system including Windows 11, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Arch Linux Arm on the Google Tensor-powered phone, and do so at near-native speed.

There are plenty of web browsers available for Linux. A lot of them are based on Chromium but we also have a list of browsers that are not based on Chromium. Recently, a reader asked for a lightweight web browsers recommendation and hence I took the responsibility of doing some quick experimentation. Here’s what I found.

The latest Linux kernel 5.16 update brings scheduling and hybrid handling improvements that give Linux a significant advantage over Windows 11 in Alder Lake systems. The current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS uses the 5.15 kernel and suffers from performance regressions on Alder Lake as a result.

FriendlyElec launched a $48 “NanoPi R2C Plus” router, an case-only variant of the RK3328-based NanoPi R2C SBC that adds 8GB eMMC, among other minor changes. Meanwhile, there is now a $9 metal case for the similar Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS SBC.

If you try to pipe the output from one Linux command into another, you may run into errors where the command fails because its argument list is too long. Fortunately, there's a command on Linux systems that properly formats arguments to commands. It's called xargs and here's how to use it.

Learn how the different components of Kubernetes architecture fit together so you can be better equipped to diagnose problems, maintain a healthy cluster, and optimize your own workflow.

In a market with so many proprietary devices and one-function machines, it can be a big help to have something versatile like a Raspberry Pi on hand. No one knows that better than Gary Croft who’s using a Raspberry Pi 4 with a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera to capture impressive footage from his trinocular microscope.

TShark is designed as a CLI or command-line interface of Wireshark for capturing and analyzing packets right from the CLI. In this tutorial, we will explain to you about TShark and present you with some basic use cases. Let’s dive in with TShark.

The Linux Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a shell and command language that is known to most Linux users, since it's the default shell in most Linux distributions. A beginner Linux user may find the Linux terminal usage a bit hard to grasp, especially because it relies heavily on using your arrow keys to move around. Additionally, constantly re-typing the commands, each with a slight variation, can be annoying.

I have used Linux for about 25 years and Unix for a few years before that. During that time, I have developed preferences for some tools that I use daily. One of the most important tools I use is the Vim editor.

Passwords are one of the most important aspects of computing. They keep our bank accounts, user profiles and computers safe (as long as we don’t reuse passwords). Just to log into our computers, most of us need a password and, for Linux, this is even more important.

Just over a week ago the Linux community celebrated the release of Slackware Linux 15.0. This new version of the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution is the first to come out of the Slackware project in over five years. What has changed, what has stayed the same, and how does Slackware compare to other distributions these days? Our Feature Story shares observations on setting up, using, and maintaining Slackware's new release. The Slackware Linux distribution has been around for a long time. When did you first get to run Slackware? Let us know when you got your first taste of Slackware in this week's Opinion Poll.

For a while now Daniel Van Vugt of Canonical has been working on GNOME triple buffering support that would be dynamically enabled when the GPU rendering performance is falling behind. It's looking like that dynamic triple buffering may be close to mainlining and is leading big speed-ups for Intel graphics and the Raspberry Pi Broadcom graphics too while the other drivers ultimately should benefit too if falling behind in their desktop rendering performance.

Switching to Linux is a great way to breathe life into an aging machine, but it's also a lot of work! Need to lighten the load on your Linux-powered machine? Try these apps!

This article describes how to create Jenkins agent images that can build Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant images when run with a rootless user on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or OKD. You can extrapolate many of these details and use them with other continuous integration (CI) tools and Kubernetes distributions.

LVM Logical Volume Management is a storage Management solution in Linux. It provides users with an extensible and highly flexible storage Management model.

The server and mobile industries know open source well. But open source isn't just about the technology. First and foremost, open source is about sharing, and if there's one thing people love to share more than anything, it's self-expression in the form of art. Whether you consider yourself an artist or not, you can foster your own creativity with open source applications, and possibly end up with something you're proud to share with others. Here are 26 applications in seven different artistic categories to help you act on your every inspiration.

As beloved Unix pioneer Brian Kernighan approaches his 80th birthday, he made a special appearance at this year’s Linux Conference Australia. At the traditional January event — held virtually for the second year in a row — Kernighan reminisced on the 1970s and “The early days of Unix at Bell Labs,” always careful to acknowledge the contributions of others, and of those developers who’d preceded him.