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CPU Power Manager uses the intel_pstate frequency scaling driver to control and manage CPU frequency in your Linux GNOME desktop system.

Have you ever wondered why sudo or root permission is required to mount an external drive or partition as a normal user from Terminal, but not from the file manager in Linux? Here is the answer!

This brief tutorial describes how to auto logout inactive users after a particular period of time in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

In this tutorial, we will see what is Flatpak, how to install Flatpak on Linux and then how to use Flatpak command line user interface to install applications.

This brief guide explains how to find and list startup services at boot in Linux and Unix-like systems.

Some times you might want to run an application (especially a web application) 24/7 in full-screen mode. In this guide, we will see how to launch web browsers in kiosk mode (full screen) from command line in Linux.

Unclutter is used to auto hide mouse pointer after a certain period of time when there is no mouse movement in Linux desktops.

This guide explains how to configure networking in Vagrant to provide access to guest machine from the local host system in Linux.

Vagrant will start a VM with Virtualbox by default. In this brief guide, we will see how to use Vagrant with Libvirt KVM provider on Linux.

In this tutorial, we will learn about Vagrant, vagrant boxes, vagrantfile, provisioning tools, how to install vagrant on Linux operating systems and finally learn a few basic vagrant commands to create and manage virtual machines.

Everyday we run many commands on our Linux system. This brief guide explains how to find top most used commands on Linux operating systems.

The history command prints the recently executed commands. This brief tutorial explains different ways to clear Command line history in Linux.

We all know about GNU core utilities that comes pre-installed with all Unix-like operating systems. These are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Meet moreutilis,  a growing collection of more useful Unix utilities. The moreutils can be installed on GNU/Linux, and various Unix flavours such as FreeBSD, openBSD and Mac OS.

Ever wondered how long have you been using the Linux OS without a reinstall? Read on to find exact installation date and time of your Linux OS.

Installing Vagrant is quite easy! In this tutorial, we will see how to install Vagrant on Linux operating systems.

DNS cache (or sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a small temporary database maintained by the operating systems. This brief guide explains all possible ways to clear or flush DNS cache in Linux operating systems.

Are you looking for a best graphic design software for Linux? Here is 8 free graphic design software to create professional graphic designs.

Virsh, short for Virtual Shell, is a command line user interface for managing virtual guest machines. Virsh allows you to create, list, edit, start, restart, stop, suspend, resume, shutdown and delete VMs.

Monitoring tools are vital and every system admin knows it. With the help of resource monitoring applications, we can continually observe the health of a system's resources when a task is running. Bashtop and Bpytop resource monitors are used to monitor system resources in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

This comprehensive guide explains different ways to check if a Linux system is physical or virtual machine.