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Simple bandwidth shaping in Linux with firejail

Updated - October 7, 2019 by Arnab Satapathi

Network bandwidth shaping or traffic shaping is extensively used for efficient use of available network bandwidth and fairer bandwidth sharing. Most common use of bandwidth shaping in Linux desktop is […]

LXQt with kwin and KDE Breeze theme in Debian

Updated - August 21, 2017 by Arnab Satapathi

LXQt, the fusion between LXDE and RazorQt desktop environments. Unlike KDE, LXQt is lightweight, though it supports KDE 5 Breeze theme. Breeze is the KDE 5's latest widget style for […]

Boot Slitaz from a OpenWrt pxe boot server

Updated - April 30, 2020 by Arnab Satapathi

Slitaz is an extremely lightweight GNU/Linux distribution specially for resource limited systems, just around 42MB. This tiny distro packs enough feature reach tool sufficient for regular use. Slitaz's openbox and LXDE […]

Check BIOS, UEFI, motherboard info in Linux

Updated - April 3, 2018 by Arnab Satapathi

Sometime it's necessary to check BIOS, UEFI, or motherboard information, mostly for hardware upgrade and troubleshooting purpose. Its possible to get those information by checking the hardware manufacturer's site, but […]

Booting Slax Linux from OpenWrt PXE server

Updated - November 6, 2017 by Arnab Satapathi

First of all, if you don't know what is Slax, it's a highly usable and compact slackware based GNU/Linux live CD distro just around 230 MB. It's one of the […]

How to update CPU microcode in Linux

Updated - December 30, 2017 by Arnab Satapathi

What is microcode ? Simply for a CPU, microcode could be assumed as firmware of the CPU, which generally adds more functionality to the processor and patches hardware level bugs. […]

How to use Debian as a rolling release distribution

Updated - March 20, 2018 by Arnab Satapathi

Debian stable versions are notable for their stability, security and performance. Debian team maintains a time based stable version release and the software repository is somewhat outdated. So isn't it […]

Debian minimal install guide step by step

Updated - July 6, 2018 by Arnab Satapathi

Here's a debian minimal install guide with step by step instruction and screenshots. No doubt that Debian and it's forks are the most popular GNU/Linux distributions. Debian gained popularity for […]