Hi everyone, Today, I noticed I had quiet a few plasma updates. Turns out that KDE Plasma 6.1 is now available in the Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu / Kubuntu oracular, or the 24.10 version. If you already have Ubuntu with KDE Plasma or Kubuntu 24.10, all you have to do is run sudo apt update and sudo apt dist-upgrade. This will update Plasma to the 6.1 version. A side note: SDDM, the display manager used by plasma, works, but the…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to downgrade GRUB on the HP Stream 7 and 8 tablets. These tablets use the Intel Bay Trail platform and only have a 32-bit bootloader. The CPU in these tablets are 64-bit, so it’s weird that the bootloader only works with 32-bit EFI loaders. The good thing is that we can use a 64-bit version of Linux paired with the 32-bit GRUB EFI loader. In Ubuntu 23.10 and the upcoming Ubuntu…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur using the terminal. These steps are easy to perform and will get you up and running with the latest stable Ubuntu version. To perform this upgrade, we will use the tool called do-release-upgrade. First, open your terminal window and type do-release-upgrade. Then press, Enter Then, type the y key and press Enter: You’ll be prompted to enter your password: do-release-upgrade will start…
Hi everyone, I have started to post daily Linux Kernel builds. These are compiled to .deb packages and will be packaged inside a .tar file. You can find more information and download the daily Linux Kernel in the Daily Linux Kernel page. Posted are the configuration file used to build the kernel, the .tar file containing the .deb files, and the .tar file containing the Linux Source code used at the time of the build. Hope you find this useful!…
Hi everyone, Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster got released this past month. Now, development for Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur has started and you can upgrade to its development version right now. If you like to test software and don’t mind bugs and other potential issues, I’ll show you how simple it is to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10. First, you’ll need to open a terminal and type do-release-upgrade -d. The -d option indicates that you want to install a development version: You…
Hi everyone, Some years ago, I got the TP-Link T2U Nano Wireless Adapter to replace an internal Wireless Mini-PCI Express adapter that was going bad on a laptop. This adapter has been a good replacement for that laptop and is still working as of this day. That laptop uses Windows. Now, I tried to see if that same adapter would work with Linux. Unfortunately, as of these days, it is not a plug-and-play adapter, and requires the installation of an…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the 500GB version of the Samsung SSD 980 NVMe drive in the ASUS E210MA laptop. This SSD is marketed with having a read speed of up to 3,500MB/s and write speeds of up to 3,000MB/s. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, since this laptop is running Ubuntu Linux. 500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark First, we must select the proper drive in the drive dropdown. Then, we will click on…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC drive that can be found in the ASUS E210MA laptop. eMMC drives are normally embedded in budget laptops, paired with a general purpose CPU. However, that does not necessarily mean that the eMMC is slow. While it will not have the same speed as an NVMe SSD, we still benefit from it being a Solid State Disk. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, as…
Hi everyone, Today, we will learn to install KDiskMark in the Development Branch of Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster. KDiskMark is a Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Disk Benchmarking Utility for Linux. It is a graphically-identical version of CrystalDiskMark for Windows and is an essential piece to test read and write speeds of storage devices. Adding the KDiskMark PPA repository KDiskMark can be installed easily by the use of a PPA repository. We will open a terminal and use the…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will be cloning a 500GB Hard Disk Drive to a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD. For this, we will be using the Linux dd utility, and will confirm some important details using KDE Partition Manager. Before we begin, we must use a SATA to USB enclosure or adapter. I will be using an UGREEN USB 3.0 to SATA enclosure. Let’s begin the preparation: Preparing the Hard Disk Drive and SSD for cloning These are…