CrossOver is a Wine-based Windows compatibility layer for Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS which enable Windows applications to run under these operating systems. It is developed by CodeWeavers who modifies Wine source code, applies compatibility patches, adds user-friendly configuration tools, and provides technical support. In this article, I will discuss how to install CrossOver in … Read more
MetaMask is a cryptocurrency wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users to manage account keys, broadcast transactions, send and receive Ethereum based cryptocurrencies and tokens and securely connect to the decentralized applications through its web or mobile application. The MetaMask Swaps feature which is integrated with this application finds the best … Read more
OpenVZ (Open Virtuozzo) is a Linux kernel, modified to add support to OpenVZ containers. It provides operating system-level virtualization which allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, virtual private servers, and virtual environments. It uses the same kernel as the host so consumes fewer resources than other virtualization solutions like VMware, … Read more
Virtualization means creating a virtual version of something like computer hardware, storage devices, and network resources, etc. It allows you to create multiple simulated environments from a single physical hardware system. For example, a Windows operating system can host a system Linux, FreeBSD, etc. It provides the functionality of a physical computer. Each virtual system … Read more
Backup of a computer system is very important as it can prevent you from data loss in case of system failure. Duplicity is an open-source data backup tool that provides encrypted, digitally signed, and versioned local or remote backup of files. In this article, I will discuss how to install and use Duplicity in Ubuntu … Read more
Dragonfire is an open-source voice assistant for Ubuntu-based Linux systems. It uses Mozilla’s Deepspeech to understand the voice commands and Festival speech synthesis system to handle text to speech tasks. In this article, I will discuss how to install Dragonfire voice assistant in Ubuntu Linux. Working of Dragonfire voice assistant When you use voice commands … Read more
Open Assistant is a free and open-source voice assistant program. It is a functional prototype with a vast long-term vision. You can accomplish any system task quickly by using simple voice commands. In this article, I will discuss how to install and use Open Assistant in Ubuntu. Working of Open Assistant Open Assistant mainly consists … Read more
A voice assistant is software that uses voice recognition, language processing algorithms, and voice synthesis to listen to specific voice commands and respond with information or function requested by the user. Mycroft is one of the most popular open-source voice assistants which can be installed on Linux, Raspberry pi, etc. Mycroft Mark I and Mark … Read more
PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend to Wine which is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows a Windows application to run in Linux. It translates Windows system calls to POSIX compliant system calls. Wine doesn’t have a user interface so it is complex to use and configure, PlayOnLinux overcomes this issue by providing an easy-to-use … Read more
A web browser is one of the most common applications it is used for accessing web pages, downloading files from the internet, streaming videos and audios online. Safari is a popular web browser which is developed by Apple. Officially Apple doesn’t release it for the Linux platform but if you want to try it on … Read more
