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A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.
If you want to look badass in front of your friends you might want to try out eDEX-UI, a cross platform terminal emulator that doubles as a real-time system and network monitor.
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The tuned tuning service can adapt the operating system to perform better under certain workloads by setting a tuning profile. The tuned-adm command-line tool allows users to switch between different tuning profiles.
Tuned is a tool meant for servers but it can also be used on desktops and workstations.
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A general purpose mouse inteface for your Linux TTY virtual console
This might be the easiest and shortest article I’ve written in a long time. If you work with the TTY virtual console on your Linux box, you might want a general purpose mouse functionality. Why? I don’t know why YOU might need it but, so far, I’ve use it for copy-pasting.
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Stop clicking on links without examing the URL first….
One of the worst inventions in the last 10 years or so is short URLs. They are being used everywhere. On Twitter, in emails and how many times did you hear “you can find links for all these products in the description”. Just stop clicking on them. Without examing the URL first….
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A free and open source Linux application firewall
If you’re looking for an application firewall for your Linux box, you must’ve heard of OpenSnitch. The bad news is that the original project is no longer under active development. The good news is that OpenSnitch has been forked.
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how to install macOS Big Sur on Linux
If you’re running a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can still other distros and OS’. You can even enjoy macOS. You can run Catalina using the clover bootloader and you can even install macOS in a Docker container.
Today we’re going to take a look at how set up a simple macOS Big Sur VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
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a fully functional Mac OS 8 that can run on your Mac, Linux and Windows machines
Some of us can’t even imagine a digital world before 2010, while others have been around for long enough to remember the thrills of a BBS.
And most of us don’t even realize how much computers have evolved in the last 30 years. For example, Mac OS 8.1 could be written today entirely in JavaScript and run as an app on Linux, macOS and Windows.
That’s exactly what Felix Riesenberg did. He turned an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra running Mac OS 8.1 into a single Electron app that can run cross-platform.
NOTE: Mac OS 8 was released in 1997.
The app emulates a Macintosh Quadra 900 with the Motorola CPU Apple used before its transition to IBM’s PowerPC chips.
The best part, it really is fully functional and it comes preloaded with a bunch of games and apps like Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Dungeons & Dragons, Namely, Oregon Trail, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage Incorporated, Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, and Apple’s Web Page Construction Kit.
The only thing that’s not working, although fully understandable, is web browsing. Felix included Internet Explorer and Netscape into the app but the programs are so old they are incapable of resolving anything.
Furthermore, as the app is basically a virtual machine, you can even transfer files to and from the machine.
Check out the official Github project to learn more and download Mac OS 8.
You can download standalone or installers for macOS and Windows. Linux users can download .deb and .rpm packages. Would’ve been great if macintosh.js came as an .AppImage.
Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop’s battery state, CPU usage and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Linux is great for so many reasons. Battery life is not one of them. Most users, with every new isntall, one of the first thing they install is TLP and/or Powertop. Tools like these definitely help with extending the battery life but they also come with their own set of problems. Like losing turbo boost.
Here’s where cpu-freq comes in. A simple tool which will automatically make “cpufreq” related changes, save battery like TLP, but let Linux kernel do most of the heavy lifting.
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Astrofox is a motion graphics tool for creating audio-reactive visuals synced to music.
Today, everybody seems to be a musician. And that’s not a bad thing. There are many, many talented people out there. And because of the internet it’s easier than ever to share your creations with the world. But sometimes just the audio won’t cut it, and not everybody can do, or afford, a music video. Here’s where Astrofox comes in.
Astrofox is a motion graphics tool for creating audio-reactive visuals synced to music. You can combine images and text with audio elements like sound waves and spectrum bars that react to music. You go further by adding one of many effects like blur and glow to enhance your visuals. Then save your work as high-definition videos and share them on social media sites to gain new fans.
You can check out Astrofox in action below and download the app for macOS, Linux and Windows here.
Make a Bootable USB by Download an .ISO or an Image Directly to Your Thumbdrive
When you want to install a new OS, you usually create a bootable USB flash drive with the .iso of that OS. To do that you can use GUI programs like Etcher or Rufus or the dd command. Or maybe you’ll take the more convinient route and create a multiple-ISO bootable drive.
But, maybe, you just want to create an Ubuntu LTS bootable flash drive and just throw it in your backpack or hang it on your keychain, just in case you’ll ever need it. Maybe, for any reason, you don’t want to download the iso or image to your HDD/SSD. Maybe you’re out of space. But you really need to make a bootable drive.
You can just write the ISO files directly to your USB drive as you download it from the internet.
