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Beautiful Terminal Resource Monitor – How to install BpyTOP on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 16, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Bpytop is a free and open source command-line based resource monitor for Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD. Using this you can monitor your system and view the usage and stats of your processor, disks, memory, network and processes. It is actually a Python port of popular resource monitor bashtop. It comes with easy to use menu, responsive keys selection and full mouse support. You can filter the processes and you can also use multiple filters in the same time. You can also send SIGTERM, SIGKILL and SIGINT to the process. It is released under open source Apache License 2.0 license and based on python. It comes with themes support and auto scaling graph for network usage.

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How to Get Linux OS Name Version and Kernel Details

Post last modified:October 15, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

You can easily get your system distribution name, version and Kernel details in linux. There are several ways, options and GUI tools available. But you can also view these details without any third party GUI tools in Linux. You can easily view these details in your command line terminal application.This article explains how to get and find the Linux OS distribution name, version and Kernel details in command line method using the terminal application. It will help to troubleshoot some others or yours system if you don’t have the GUI access. For this tutorial we are using Ubuntu.

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How to Install Latest Kernel in Ubuntu based Distro with Mainline

Post last modified:October 14, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu Mainline Kernel installer is a free and open source Linux kernel installation application for Linux. It fetches the list of available kernels from official Ubuntu Mainline PPA. This tool downloads and installs linux kernel packages automatically and you can…

Sysmon Linux System Activity Monitor – Install Sysmon on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 13, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Sysmon is a free and open source GUI based Linux system activity monitor application for Linux. Using this you can monitor your system processes, CPU, Memory, Network, Disks (HDD and SDD) and GPU details. The UI more look like the Windows Task manager. You can check CPU details per core clock speed. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0. Sysmon is still in early development stage but looking promising.

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mpz Directory Tree music Player – Install mpz on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 12, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

mpz is a free and open source music player for Linux and Windows. It is one of the best music player for large amount of local music collections. It comes with 3 columns simple easy to use user interface (library, playlists and tracks. You can create unlimited number of playlists easily from the directory tree library. It is based on C++ and Qt framework and released under GNU General Public License. It also comes with some other useful features such as CUE support and radio streams support in pls and m3u playlists.

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How to install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 10, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaborative platform from Microsoft. It offers chat, video conferencing, file storage, Audio calls, Video calls, document editing, screen sharing, online meeting and application integration. Microsoft Teams is now available for Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, MacOS and web app.

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How to Monitor and View System Statistics with Saidar – Install Saidar on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 9, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Saidar is a free and open source command-line system statistics viewer for Linux. It is a a curses-based application to view your linux system information. It is based on libstatgrab and you can use Saidar as a real time system monitoring tool in your system. You can check CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information using this tool. It is a simple and easy to use tool.

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How to Reduce default stop timeout to speed up Ubuntu shutdown

Post last modified:October 8, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

By default in your Ubuntu system the stop timeout that is the wait period for the system shut down is 90 seconds. But you can change this time by editing the /etc/systemd/system.conf file. This will speed up your Ubuntu system shutdown time. In this article we will see how to reduce the default stop timeout in Ubuntu.

First open your terminal application. You can open it by pressing ctrl+alt+t keys together. In terminal run this command.

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Hyper Beautiful and Extensible Terminal – Install Hyper on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 7, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Hyper is a free and open source simple but beautiful terminal application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is based on Html, Css, TypeScript (Electron) and released under MIT license. It comes with plugin support to extend its features. Some other features are Emoji support and themes support. It also comes with and uses WebGL Renderer to speedup the rendering process. In this article we will see how to install hyper terminal app on Ubuntu linux.

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How to install Pall Color Picker on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 6, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pall Color Picker is a free and open source desktop Color Picker application for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using this you can pick the color from anywhere from your desktop. It is released under MIT License. It is a simple and easy to use color picker software. In this article we will see how to install and use Pall Color Picker on your Linux system.

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