How to install Microsoft’s Build of OpenJDK on Linux

Microsoft has built their own version of OpenJDK. This build of Open JDK 11 is available on Azure as well as for users to download and install on their local machine. According to Microsoft’s Dev Blogs: They rely on Java technologies for a variety of their own internal systems, applications, and workloads to enable well-known … Read more

Install Kitty (Terminal Emulator) on Ubuntu

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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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Jekyll on Fedora

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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 … Read more