Guake dropdown terminal Guake is a dropdown terminal for gtk based desktop environments like gnome, xfce etc. Its a useful tool that brings up a terminal at the press of a key. Guake is written in Python. It supports hotkeys, tabs, transparent backgrounds and other stuffs. This post shows how to install and configure guake…. Read More »
This tutorial shows how to install the latest nvidia drivers for your graphics card on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) and similar distros like Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu
This quick tutorial shows you how to fix the “System program problem detected” error message that comes up on Ubuntu.
Find out the information and specifications of the graphics or video card (graphics processing unit) on your linux system from the command line.
Use glmark to benchmark and compare the graphics performance of your GPU ( graphics processing unit ) on linux desktop.
Ubuntu 14.04 codenamed Trust Tahr has been released and here are the instructions to upgrade your desktop and servers.
Install the latest Nvidia graphics drivers on Linux Mint 16 (Petra) to get the best performance of Nvidia graphics cards and GPUs.
Quick look at various commands that can be used to gather hardware information related to cpu, disks, memory, peripherals etc on Linux based systems
Quick tutorial on how to use the lshw (list hardware) command to get hardware information on Linux systems like Ubuntu, Fedora etc.
The hwinfo command can be used to check hardware information about various devices on Linux systems like Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS, and this post shows some examples.