How to improve font rendering on Linux

In the last few years the Linux ecosystem has made a huge progress in term of quality of its desktop interface (or interfaceS since there are many alternatives) and it is almost at par with its commercial competitors. But it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any tweaks that still need to be implemented from time to time.
Today we deal with the installation of Infinality, a patched version of FontConfig that has been created to improve the visual rendering of any text font.

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How to completely erase a file on Linux

As we have seen, simply deleting a file with a file manager or with ‘rm’ is not enough to really remove it from your hard disk and it is still possible to recover a deleted file.
Good news if you delete a file accidentally, but what can you do if you are in the opposite situation and you actually need to make sure that the file you are deleting doesn’t have chance to be recovered?
Fortunately in Linux there are some tools dedicated to totally erasing the file data: Shred and Wipe

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