Linux adventures

  Web browsers like Firefox store a number of commonly downloaded files on the computer in what's called a cache. Storing these files saves the browser from having to load them from the Web every time, making pages load faster. On most computers, the cache is located on the hard drive. While retrieving data from the hard drive is faster than pulling it off of the Internet, storing those files in memory instead is even faster. To get this benefit, you can set Firefox to use RAM as a cache instead of using the hard drive. 1 Open Firefox and type "about:config" (without quotes here and in subsequent commands) into the browser's address bar. The address bar is where the Web address or URL of the site you're visiting appears. 2 Type "browser.cache" into the Search field that appears under the address bar. This will make the browser look for characteristics of its cache settings that can be changed. 3 Find the entry entitled "browse...

  In this tutorial, we will learn how to check hardware information, block devices and filesystems on Linux system. Many a time as we interact with the Linux system in our day to day activities, there may arise a need to check on the mounted filesystems, available block devices, disk space usage, system hardware information or even file space usage. Well, in this tutorial we are going to explore some of the tools that will come in handy while performing such activities. You may also want to check our previous article on viewing system processes, memory usage and cpu usage. Checking Hardware Information lspci Command It is used to display all the information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them. If run without options, it will display a brief list of devices. → lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Fa...

 It’s taken them three years, but Peppermint OS, a lightweight Linux distro for low-powered computers, has a new release - Peppermint OS 11 - and it’s a big change from its predecessor.  While Peppermint OS 10 was based on Ubuntu, version 11 makes the jump to 64-bit Debian Bullseye, the 5.10 LTS kernel, and the lightweight Xfce 4.16 default desktop environment. This means you now get Calameres as the graphical installer instead of Ubuntu’s Ubiquity, and sees changes in the software selection too, with Nemo replacing Thunar as the default file manager, and new Welcome To Peppermint and Peppermint Hub apps that let you customise the OS and access its settings. There's no web browser installed by default, but with Firefox ESR, Konquerer, Epiphany and more available from the Welcome app, that shouldn’t take too long to sort out. Of course being a Debian system you are free to install whatever web browser that you wish via the APT package manager.   I instal...