Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart.

Bootchart provides a shell script to be run by the kernel in the init phase. The script will run in background and collect process information, CPU statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc file system. The performance data are stored in memory and are written to disk once the boot process completes.

To install Bootchart fire up your terminal and run this command

sudo apt-get install bootchart

The bootchart result is saved as an image after every boot process of your system and the image are saved in /var/log/bootchart/

Go into that folder after rebooting your PC to see how was your system's booting performance. How many seconds it took to boot?

Mine take around 30 seconds to boot.

This app will help you to keep an eye on your Ubuntu's performances every now and then.

Enjoy!

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Sometimes we need to open a Terminal in a hurry at a particular location and the easier way to do is to add a "Open in Terminal" option in the right-click menu.

For doing that we have to run this command in the terminal.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Now whenever we right-click on or in the folder or on the desktop we will get the option "Open in Terminal" in the menu and we can open the terminal.

Restart Gnome for the changes to take effect.

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