Kitty is a free and open-source feature rich GPU based terminal emulator developed by Kovid Goyal, the project is being actively maintained with over 130+ contributors. Here are some of its features listed below: Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency. Supports […]
Author Archives: Darryl Dias
I’m Darryl. I’m a 3D Artist, Programmer and Linux enthusiast. On this site I share my insights, tips and tricks, tutorials, methods and best practices.
What is a Zombie process in Linux?
You may come across a message that states, “There is 1 zombie process.”. You might come across this when logging into your Ubuntu Server via SSH. If you see such a message, you don’t have to panic or worry; it is just notifying you. I will explain in depth what this means. Zombie explained. On […]
Remove unused Flatpak Runtimes from Linux
Flatpak does not remove dependencies such as runtime components after a certain program is removed, this means if the program has been uninstalled the runtime libraries do not uninstall with it. This can over time cause massive disk space usage, if you heavily rely on it. Step 1. Removing runtime dependencies using the unused flag […]
Jekyll on Fedora
Jekyll is a free and open-source static site generator written in Ruby. It is popularly known for being used to power the GitHub Pages service. I switched my testing machine to Fedora 34 to test Gnome 40 and to work on some web development projects. In that process, I discovered that setting up Jekyll requires […]
Raspberry Pi 3 Blender Render Benchmark
Software: Blender 2.82 (sub 7) Scene file: BMW 27 (Cpu) by Mike Pan. Renderer: Cycles Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bit. Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-1028-raspi #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 20 11:30:45 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Time taken for render (tool: time). real 189m28.939suser 745m18.861ssys 3m43.083s