We'll show you how to tune up your Linux system for multimedia applications.

Tune up your systems and search out bottlenecks with these handy performance tools.

If you work with third-party hardware drivers, or even if you just need to fix a broken system, someday you might need to upgrade the Linux kernel.

Instead of souped up CPUs, simple programming tricks are often all it takes to speed up a program. Profilers can discover bottlenecks that need more TLC from the developer.

Zenity and KDialog let you integrate your scripts with the native KDE or Gnome environment.

Instead of just monitoring incoming requests in your web server's logfile, a sound server makes them audible and lets you listen to the tune of users surfing the site.