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The most commonly used command line tools for process monitoring on Linux are top and its colorful, feature rich cousin htop . To monitor temperature on Linux, you can use lm-sensors. Similarly, there are many utilities to monitor other real-time metrics such as Disk I/O, Network Stats and others. Glances is a system monitoring tool…
A quick look at my pick for a Download Manager for Linux. Based on aria2 and supports multiple connections for accelerated downloads. Links:Persopolis Download Manager: https://persepolisdm.github.io/App Picks Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCD93909791B8CE06Donate here…thanks: http://bit.ly/MOO4KGSign up to Dropbox: https://db.tt/Qg1VIS9TFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingalacticBlog: http://infinitelygalactic.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ingalactic
Brief: OnionShare is a free and open-source tool that utilizes the Tor network to share files securely and anonymously. You might have already come across a lot of online services to share files securely but it may not be completely anonymous. Also, you do have to rely on a centralized service to share your files…
One of the most commonly used term in desktop Linux world is Desktop Environment (DE). If you are new to Linux, you should understand this frequently used term. What is Desktop Environment in Linux? A desktop environment is the bundle of components that provide you common graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as icons, toolbars,…
Timestamps and links below!Considering the changes coming to the macOS platform announced at WWDC 2020, I figured it was time to explore what building an open macOS alternative would look like using elementary OS 5.1 as a base. This video explores the strengths of the Mac, how to replicate those strenghs in elementary OS through…
Recently, KDE Neon‘s latest version based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS officially released. Visually, it will still be the same if you had KDE neon installed but with the latest Ubuntu LTS base. Even though I’m not an experienced KDE user, I can tell that KDE Neon offers a lot of things to impress an average…
A quick app recommendation for digital inking notes and annotating PDFs on Linux! Xournal++ is only a recent discovery for me, but it has a lot of great features built in. Check it out at the link below!https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp Links:Donate here…thanks: http://bit.ly/MOO4KGSign up to Dropbox: https://db.tt/Qg1VIS9TFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingalacticBlog: http://infinitelygalactic.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ingalactic
This year the FreeBSD Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To commemorate those years of dedication to open source, we are going to take a look at the history of FreeBSD and what exactly the FreeBSD Foundation does. Join me, won’t you? History of FreeBSD Unix first appeared when God delivered the source code to…
Atom is undoubtedly one of the best open source code editors available for any platform. Developed by GitHub, Atom takes pride in pitching itself as the hackable text editor for the 21st century. How is it a ‘hackable’ text editor? Because you can extend the functionality of the editor by means of installing plugins for…
Debian-based MX Linux is already an impressive Linux distribution with Xfce desktop environment as the default. Even though it works good and is suitable to run with minimal hardware configuration, it still isn’t the best Linux distribution in terms of eye candy. That’s where KDE comes to the rescue. Of late, KDE Plasma has reduced…
This is my hot take on Ubuntu Deepin 20.04 as so many were requesting. I also go to task on the issue of too many respins/remixes in the Ubuntu world that all seem to crop up around the LTS releases. Is this good for the long-term? Here’s my thoughts. Links:Donate here…thanks: http://bit.ly/MOO4KGSign up to Dropbox:…
If you are It’s FOSS newsletter subscriber, you already know that we have started a new ‘Terminal Tuesday’ series. In this, you’ll get to read about command line tools or tips/tricks to help you in terminal. Terminal is not all about serious work, it can be fun sometimes. You can play games in terminal or…
Brief: CryptPad is an amazing open-source online suite for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, boards, and more. The best part is that all the documents are encrypted. Take a look at CryptPad in this week’s open source software highlight. Without a doubt, Google’s suite of online office products that include Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google…
Mozilla is in news again but not for good reasons. Mozilla has suddenly fired around 250 employees, 25% of its workforce. It also closed operations in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taiwanese team was working on Firefox Lite. This is not the first layoff from Mozilla this year. At the beginning of the year, Mozilla had laid…
While there are various ways to install applications in Ubuntu, I prefer to use the apt command in the terminal for installing software. If you do the same, you may come across a dependency error like this: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if…
No matter whether you’re a system administrator or just a casual desktop user, you may have heard about one of the most popular terminal-based system monitoring tool “top“. To many, it’s the task manager on Linux. In case you didn’t know, the “Top” utility helps display all the running processes and gives you some important…
Brief: Photoflare is an image editor available for Linux and Windows. The editor has a free and open source community edition. When it comes to image editing on Linux, GIMP is the first and obvious choice. But GIMP could be overwhelming if you don’t need advanced editing feature. This is where applications like Photoflare step…
Animated GIFs are everywhere on the internet. From blog posts to social media, GIFs can be used in a humorous as well as explanatory way. Even on It’s FOSS, we use GIFs to show a certain step in action. It is better than still images and shorter than loading a video. In this tutorial, I…
The first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is finally here. You can now download Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. What is point release? Is Ubuntu 20.04 different than Ubuntu 20.04.1? This could be confusing if you are new to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.04 long term support (LTS) version was released in April this year. Since a LTS…
Brief: Open source painting and drawing application has a new release after more than 5 years. The new release fixes numerous bugs and adds new features. Pinta is an open source drawing application for Linux, Windows and macOS. You can use it for freehand drawing/sketching. You may also use it to add arrows, boxes, text…