phoronix-test-suite is currently the best benchmark tool for Linux. You can use it to figure out the bottleneck of performance of your Linux machine. Please refer to Benchmark Your Linux Machine Using phoronix-test-suite for more discussions.
BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and …
Note: For Vim users, it is appealing to make the Caps Lock function like Escape.
It is suggested that you make Caps Lock an additonal Escape
rather than swap them.
This avoid inconsistent key mapping issues when you work remotely via VNC, NoMachine, etc.
Some desktop environment (e …
Note: Cron is great for simple scheduling requests. For complicated scheduling with many dependencies you probably want to go with AirFlow .
Cron is usually installed by default. It not (e.g., if you are using a Docker image), you can install it using the following command (on Ubuntu).
wajig …Note: The tips here are for Debian-based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Pop!_OS, AntiX, etc.).
If you installed Debian without a desktop environment, and wants to install a customized desktop environment now, make sure to install a DE manager (e.g., gdm, lightdm, etc.) as well. without …
Sometime when you install softwares in Linux, you get an error message saying that you do not have permission while you used sudo or the root account. This probably means that you do not have full access to some installation files. An easy way to solve this problem is to …
Download the right ISO image of the Linux distribution that you want to install.
Create …