Upscayl: From Blurry to Beautiful with Free AI Magic
I've been interested in photography ever since I co-opted my father's Kodak 620 camera as a young boy. I used it to take pictures of...
Converting to solid-state disks (SSDs) on the desktop
Image by David Both. CC-by-SA 4. If you have a need for speed, you need to consider the switch to SSDs. I know that many...
How to tune the Linux kernel with the /proc filesystem
Image by David Both: CC-by-SA 4. The Linux kernel is a tunable marvel that allows you to make changes to its parameters while it is...
Use Audacity to Edit Music Recordings on Linux
Image by: Internet Archive Book Images. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0 How COVID-19 caused me to learn Audacity on the fly and learn to...
Linux hardware: The history of memory and storage devices
Buckle in for a trip back in time for a look at the early days of memory and storage, and how we got to where...
The Central Processing Unit (CPU): Its Components And Functionality
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay An Introduction To The CPU, What It Does, How It Works, And How It Came To Be The legacies...
Computer History and Modern Computers for SysAdmins
Image by David Both: CC-by-SA 4 A historical perspective into the functionality of the CPU and RAM I started my Linux sysadmin path with hardware....
Five open source writing apps
AbiWord: AbiWord is a free and open-source word processor software. It is written in C++, and since version 3, it is based on GTK+ 3....
Use the Alpine email client in your Linux terminal
Configure Alpine to handle your email the way you like it. Email is an important communications medium and will remain so for the foreseeable future....
How curiosity helped me solve a hardware problem
Curiosity fuels the quest for knowledge and truth, whether it's about hardware, open source software, programming, building a PC, optimizing settings, or just learning a...
How Linux rescues slow computers (and the planet)
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA Don't throw away your old computer. Skip the landfill and revive it with Linux. Mint and Kasen, two of my grandkids,...
Understanding the Digital World – A Book Review
Image by: opensource.com CC-by-SA 4.0 Brian W. Kernighan's second edition of Understanding the Digital World is worth a read for computer enthusiasts of any skill...
Getting the most out of your NVME drives
My laptops are equipped with NVMe drives, which impress me with their incredible speed. I'm delighted by the lightning-fast boot times and seamless data read...
Cronopete: A graphical backup utility for Linux
Cronopete is a graphical backup utility for Linux that is modeled after Apple's Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups by...
Should I run my computer 24/7?
Does running my computer 24/7 wear it out? There's an argument that it actually extends the life of the machine and saves energy in the...