The eza command line program, written in Rust, gives you quality of life features that ls makes you live without. They ...

Ferdium is a free web app manager for Linux desktops. In case you don't know, web apps are essentially websites you're probably already using, like Gmail, YouTube, and Trello, that are meant to be ...

Modern Chromebooks support installing Linux apps, meaning the Play Store isn’t the only place to download apps. This makes Chrome OS devices all the more valuable, given that they can run everything ...

Chromebooks with the right stuff inside are now able to install and run a complete Linux experience with the KDE desktop without giving up the Chrome OS on the same device. It is not yet flawless, but ...

The Martin Ankerl weblog performance-tested many popular terminal applications on their text through capabilities (the time it takes to load and display the full content of a very large text file) to ...

The title of this post says it all: GoTTY is a program that lets you share Linux terminal applications into a web browser. It is a simple web server written in Go that runs a non-GUI program and can ...

Background running apps could be the cause for the high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness. Learn how to control hidden background apps in Linux.

Android has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux ...

Android 15’s new Linux Terminal app is limited to 4GB of memory, which can be insufficient for developers. A workaround involves increasing the zram size, creating a swap file, and adjusting ...

Microsoft is preparing an updated Windows Terminal application, alongside an updated Windows Subsystem for Linux, for power users who enjoy diving into the guts of the operating system. Interestingly, ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 5 years old. There’s no shortage of apps ...