We live in a world that wants us all to be environmentally aware and ask us to use less power with our electronics and to save as much power as we can.  For years operating systems have had to build in options to provide for power management.  On laptops this can be a good thing as it allows us to control just how much battery is being used and how quickly it will be drained.  The problem is of course on desktop systems or when the laptop is plugged in.

One of the most annoying aspec…

When using Linux it can often be hard to find little details about your setup.  There are nice to know things that may be unimportant to some, but to others they may have many reasons to know them.  For the more geeky out there (and of course the geeks love Linux) they often want to know just what their Linux version is and what it is running.

One of the pieces of information they like to know sometimes is whether they are running on a 32-bit or a 64-bit version.  At the moment this …

When your Ubuntu system logs in there is a sound that plays.  This can be ok, especially if your machine is a slow loader and you need to know when it’s finally sprung to life.  Fact is though like with many operating systems we like to be in control of what the system actually does.

Just like Windows and Mac there are options to turn sounds off such as these you just have to know how to find them.  There are scenarios during using Ubuntu where you don’t want login sounds, especially…

Ubuntu and of course other Linux based Operating Systems is made to have an operating system that is easy to use, essentially they are trying to give the user an interface that is very much like the windows based system or of course for Mac users their version of the desktop.  This is so that it is easy to move from either operating system to Linux.

It tries to replicate many things that the other operating systems can do, some that we want it to and some that we decide not to use.  …

Linux is a free alternative for PC users when they tire of using Microsoft Windows and feel like a change.  It’s also an operating system that many more technical users tend to prefer for their development.  The most positive side of it is of course that it is free.  One thing that many wonder though is do they really want to use it? For these people there is some good news.

You can actually try Linux, namely the Ubuntu version from an actual USB stick (or CD if you decide to use tha…

Ubuntu is one of the most popular versions of Linux available and runs very much like Windows.  One thing it has is its one file explorer (actually called file browser in Ubuntu).  Just like in Windows it likes to hide files it believes you don’t want to see.

The good news though is that it’s quite easy to view those files by just changing a few settings.  You may already know that by pressing Ctrl + H that this will show the hidden files but this is not a permanent setting.  If you …