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5 days ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

(Image credit: Pexels / Future) Ubuntu has a great System Monitor tool already built into the OS. And, there are also a plethora of terminal based alternatives such as htop, bashtop, or just plain ol’ top. These all work great but what if you want to try something different? Mission Center, created by Romeo Calota, is a more user-friendly system monitoring tool that covers CPU, GPU, RAM, disks (including SMART functionality), network and fan speeds for Linux machines.

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

Whether we’re using a Raspberry Pi or a data center server, we need to know how our CPU and RAM are performing and, in Linux, there are a plethora of commands and applications that we can use. At the basic low level “How much RAM have I used?” to inspecting the CPU for vulnerabilities such as Spectre, there are commands at our disposal.

2 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

Taking your first steps into the world of Linux can be a scary proposition. After all, we have a whole new world of terminal commands, desktop environments and applications to learn. Thankfully Linux installation has improved leaps and bounds from the earliest text based installers used in the late 1990s (Where I started my journey with Mandrake, Corel Linux) via graphical installers in the early 2000s (Ubuntu, Open Suse).

2 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

(Image credit: id Software, Jonas Eschenburg)We've come to accept over the years that we will never stop finding new platforms on which the venerable FPS Doom can be run. There will always be another system ready to take us to the depths of hell whether it's a keycap or an air hockey table. Today, however, maker and developer Jonas Eschenburg has decided to bring the classic title to the beloved classic console known as the Atari ST.

3 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

I remember using MS-DOS 6.22 on my first PC, a 486 DX 33 with a “massive” 4MB of RAM. It was quite the culture shock, upgrading from a Commodore Amiga 500, and its Workbench graphical operating system, to the text based MS-DOS. I quickly learnt how MS-DOS worked, and because I wanted sound when playing Star Wars: X-Wing, I learnt how to tweak my configuration.