Author Archives: Silver Moon

About Silver Moon

A Tech Enthusiast, Blogger, Linux Fan and a Software Developer. Writes about Computer hardware, Linux and Open Source software and coding in Python, Php and Javascript. He can be reached at [email protected].

How to install packages in Live Ubuntu Session

By | March 19, 2023

Sometimes, we want to run Ubuntu in live mode and test a few programs or commands that need to be installed first. Ubuntu supports installing packages in a live session in the same way as in a fully installed setup. However, when trying to install package in a live session, often times the following error… Read More »

4 CPU Performance metrics explained – Usage, Clock Speed, Power Consumption, Temperature

By | March 18, 2023

Performance metrics are numbers that measure different aspects of the working state of a cpu and reveal useful diagnostic information. These include cpu usage, clock speed, power consumption, temperature etc. There are many more but for simplicity we shall be focusing on these ones in this article. The metrics can be monitored using tools like… Read More »

Snap command examples to manage packages on Linux

By | February 18, 2023

What is Snap Snap is a software packaging and deployment system (similar to deb) developed by Canonical for Linux. It has version control capabilities which help maintain multiple releases of a particular application (aka snaps). Though it is a proprietary solution from Canonical, Snap is available for other linux distros like Fedora, CentOS and Manjaro… Read More »

How to Install PyOpenGL on Windows 10

By | February 11, 2023

PyOpenGL is an python module that implements OpenGL functions in python allowing you to write OpenGL applications using Python. With OpenGL you are able to write applications that use “GPU acceleration”. So if you have an Nvidia RTX 3060 gpu on your system, the opengl functions will use it to render the 3D graphics on… Read More »