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For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.

There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.

This article benchmarks the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated. We compare the FIREBAT’s benchmarks with a couple of other tiny computers.

UrBackup is billed as an easy to set up client/server backup system. It can make image and file backups with both data safety and a fast restoration time.

This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD and is available for under £100. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.

A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. The music is represented as discrete musical notes positioned in several channels at discrete chronological positions on a vertical timeline.

A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an essential tool in managing file systems.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a powerful server-side application for playing music.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a powerful and flexible server-side application for playing music. In a home environment, you can connect an MPD server to a Hi-Fi system, and control the server using a notebook or smartphone. You can, of course, play audio files on remote clients. MPD can be started system-wide or on a per-user basis.

This article looks at software which helps you manage AppImages on your system.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality mobile application development frameworks that offer an excellent way to develop mobile apps.

Having a solid data backup strategy is imperative in keeping your data safe. Your storage drives won’t last forever.

Linux offers an impressive range of open source document management systems of varying complexities, to help manage paper files electronically, enabling users to find data without any fuss or bother.

A tag editor (or tagger) is an application which allows users to edit metadata of multimedia files. Metadata is the data about the audio data. It lets information about the audio file such as the title, artist, conductor, album, track length, lyrics, embedded images, and other information be stored in the audio file itself.

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.

Asustor Nimbustor 2 Gen2 AS5402T is billed as an enthusiast-grade NAS, with entry-level pricing yet with features often found on more expensive NAS products. It runs ADM, a Linux-based operating system.

Pin It! is a small utility which lets you pin shortcuts for portable apps to your app launcher by creating desktop files.

In the field of desktop environments, there are two desktops that dominate the open source landscape: KDE and GNOME. They are smart, stable, and generally stay out of the way. These use the widget toolkits Qt and GTK respectively. And there are many excellent Qt and GTK file managers available.

Szyszka is billed as a fast and powerful file renamer. It’s built with GTK and is cross-platform software.