James'Techblog

Vivaldi recently released a new snapshot, and though I don’t often comment on the development of that version, I saw a brief overview of it on Ghacks and thought what the heck?! I’ve been using the snapshot build within Linux for some time now. I’m currently running it on Solus Mate and it feels a bit faster than Google Chrome on that particular desktop environment. I have mentioned updates from Vivaldi’s stable branch before, even did a review on the browser in general, but nothing to do with the snapshot version as it is beta software and most general users probably won’t even bother with it. The snapshots were the first to include Vivaldi’s own sync engine and a host of other features which now are included in the stable. Vivaldi recently added user accounts to their browser which allows multiple users to use separate profiles in the same browser tied to separate accounts to the sync server. This would allow users to have guests over to surf the web for a research pro...

The Swap partition is something that is debated by computer enthusiasts today within Linux. The Swap partition allows the system to suspend when not in use, hibernate, and it is instrumental in swapping out pages when RAM space is sparse. Swap is the block of space reserved on a hard drive/solid state drive that allows caching when the memory is filled during heavy read/write jobs or during normal use when such an event occurs. Regardless of how much RAM you might have, it is a good idea to at least have one an half times that in swap, however, it is possible to run your computer just fine with the bare minimum of 2GB of swap. Swap is reminiscent of the Windows Page file, however, Windows usually creates a separate file for hibernating and suspend called Hiberfil.sys.  Swap is also known as virtual memory. Swap files are small portions on the hard disk which do not count as a separate partition, however, they are bits of space cordoned off by the command fallocate –length ...