[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Update: Fedora 33 includes support for exFAT! 🥳🎉[/box] In 2019 Microsoft opened up the the exFAT specifications, and while exFAT drive support should be coming to the Linux kernel soon and distributions like Ubuntu include support out-of-box, Fedora does not yet support exFAT drives without a couple of extra tools. To […]
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One of the best things about using a popular desktop environment like GNOME is that there are thousands of different themes available, each of them doing things in their own unique way. Here is a list of our top 5 this month, most of them have different colour options so you can pick lighter/darker modes
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GNOME is a powerful desktop environment for Linux/BSD/Unix-like operating systems, but by default lots of useful features are hidden. The good news is there’s a tool called GNOME Tweaks that you can use to manage your GNOME instance and do anything from configure extensions, to change your icon pack and cursor. CLI: To install GNOME
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By default, Canonical have put the dock in Ubuntu on the left-hand side of the screen. This can be useful for maximising vertical real estate in browsers and word processors, but it super easy to move the dock location. To do this, simply press the Special key on your keyboard (Windows key on a standard
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There’s nothing worse than getting a new laptop, booting it up, and then hearing that incessant coil whine noise that kicks in and out. I’ve noticed it’s worse on the HP laptops we’ve used, but HP isn’t to blame. Intel is. In our testing, the issue seems to be related to Intel’s TurboBoost feature that
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Out of the box, servers are often insecure and come with outdated software. In this guide we will be going through the basics of what you need to do to secure a server. This guide applies to CentOS 7 and was last updated April 2019. 1. Updates! Updates! Updates! The first thing you need to
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If you spend a lot of time in the command line you may find it a bit difficult to remember the different commands you need to use to achieve basic things depending on whether you’re using Unix/Linux or Windows that day. This guide contains a cheat-sheet with some of the most used Unix commands and
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One trick the OnePlus 6T has up its sleeve is that despite not being listed on Vodafone and EE’s supported devices list, it actually comes with the keys and certificates required to connect to the VoWiFi/Wi-Fi Calling servers – all you need to do is enable it in a debugging menu. Please note that this
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Quick Fix Error message: Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64 error was 14: HTTPS Error 503 – Service Unavailable Fix: sudo rpm –query –file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt Output (will change as time goes on): ca-certificates-2018.2.22-70.0.el7_5.noarch Copy and paste output, and then run: sudo yum reinstall ca-certificates-2018.2.22-70.0.el7_5.noarch Then try yum update again.
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If you’ve ever accidentally pressed CMD+Q and quit an app when you wanted to press CMD+W to close a tab or the window, you can easily re-map the key combination required to quit a specific app (or all apps) in Settings. To do this open Settings, head to Keyboard, and then Shortcuts. Then select App Shortcuts from
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