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Easily Set CPU Governor (Performance / Powersave) And Monitor CPU Frequency In Gnome Shell With CPUFREQ Extension

Logix January 17, 2019

CPUFREQ Power Manager (or just CPUFREQ) is a Gnome Shell extension that makes it easy change the CPU governor (powersave / performance) an...

Logix January 16, 2019

This article explains how to show a history of recently installed, upgraded or removed packages, on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, from the c...

Logix January 16, 2019

ffsend is a command line Firefox Send client that's currently in alpha, available for Linux, macOS and Windows (with only macOS and Li...

Logix January 15, 2019

Crouton allows installing Ubuntu or Debian in a chroot environment on any Chromebook model, without removing Chrome OS. You can read more...

Logix January 15, 2019

Along with the GTK+ 3.24.3 release, the GTK+ developers have released an updated, more vibrant Adwaita theme as "a trial", with t...

Logix January 11, 2019

The VirtualBox Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine, after the guest operating system has been installed, ...

Logix January 11, 2019

Despite OpenJDK 11 being the latest long term release, it's currently only available in Ubuntu 18.10 and newer. This article explains ...

Logix January 10, 2019

SparkleShare is an open source cloud storage, file synchronization and collaboration client application that uses Git as the storage backe...

Logix January 09, 2019

Users dual booting Windows 10 or 8 and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE and so on, will sometimes noticed th...

Logix January 08, 2019

Chromium was updated in Fedora with a patch that enables VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support. When VAAPI is used, the video playback sh...