Sometimes, stress testing a computer (despite what operating system it uses) can be a very useful thing. For example, if you…

In computing, when it comes to delivering excellent performance and stability, both software and hardware go hand in hand. Meaning that,…

‘bzip2’ is perhaps one of the most widely used file compression format in GNU/Linux. It compresses data well, runs fast…

Recently, I ‘partially’ converted one of me friends to Ubuntu, and he is using Ubuntu alongside with Windows. After few…

When compared with the excellent and robust Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release (at least in my experience), though the current 12.10…

Different operating systems use different file systems. The GNU/Linux for instance, has a lot of file systems, but primarily relies…

Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, users can now install Ubuntu OS and its core files into an encrypted volume (partition) for…

In my experience, each time a new version of Ubuntu is released, for couple of days, the software repositories get…

By default, Ubuntu’s battery indicator does not show the remaining battery life as a percentage, instead it shows the remaining…

The network manager in Ubuntu has the ability to restore the last user saved settings of network hardware devices, upon…

Most Ubuntu users do not need an introduction to ‘indicator-cpufreq’. However, if you don’t know what that is, then ‘indicator-cpufreq’…

Though they are not the only important ones, apart from the resolution and the bitrate, frame rate or frames (images)…