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As many are likely already aware, Fedora is RedHat’s free (in both senses) Linux distribution. It shuns proprietary software and code and instead only includes FOSS at every level from kernel to userland. Fedora 33 launched today, so let’s have a look and see what’s changed. UI Updates: GNOME: Fedora 33 ships with GNOME 3.38, […]
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Kali for WSL comes with a GUI baked right in, but since I only just realised this I thought it was worth doing a quick post on it. To get the Kali GUI on Windows, install WSL first – we have a guide on installing WSL 2 here: https://www.gadgethow2.com/2020/10/16/windows-10-wsl2/ Then download Kali from the Microsoft
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RPM Fusion is a repository project offering software the Fedora team does not want to include in their own repositories. There are two different repos (free and nonfree). They’re both free as in money, but nonfree includes proprietary software. To enable the repos, use the commands below (running both is fine, but it depends on
Enable RPM Fusion Repositories on Fedora 32,33, and 34 Read More »
Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, while not much has changed over 20.04 it does bring us a handful of new things (namely GNOME 3.38.0, ZFS is no longer classified as experimental, and the Linux Kernel 5.8). 1. Install a new theme and icons 20.10 might have only just been released, but Ubuntu’s UI
5 Things to do after installing Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla Read More »
[box type=”note” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Note: we’d highly recommend using a hard firewall and requiring traffic to come via Cloudflare that way, but not everybody has that kind of access. This method still allows traffic to reach the server from outside of Cloudflare’s network, but Apache will then deny access to the site. This will still
How to block direct access to Cloudflare protected sites with .htaccess Read More »
You can find where the command lives with either the whereis or which commands. The whereis command gives you the location of the command as well as the manual page, whereas which just gives you the location of the command. which: [root@hostname ~]# which plesk /sbin/plesk [root@hostname ~]# whereis: [root@hostname ~]# whereis plesk plesk: /sbin/plesk
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Linux support for printers straight after an install is excellent, even on a FOSS-only distro like Fedora. To add your network connected printer, I’d recommend finding instructions from the printer manufacturer but failing that (or if you don’t want to download their driver package), you can probably get it working without downloading a single driver.
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After a couple of years of rumours, Microsoft Edge for Linux is finally available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE in Dev Channel form from Microsoft’s website). This version of Edge will be updated on a weekly basis, with future Beta and Canary versions hopefully available soon. Bringing Edge to Linux is an important step
Microsoft Edge for Linux is now available Read More »
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Update for Fedora 34: The switch to PipeWire (instead of PulseAudio) brings the latency on this down massively 🥳. The guide hasn’t changed though, steps are still the same – PipeWire is a back-end change with no user interaction required. [/box] My ThinkPad X390 uses Dolby Audio Premium on Windows to
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It’s still a little surprising how much effort Microsoft is putting into Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), with even GUI support coming to Insider Preview versions of Windows later this year. Regardless – it’s a very welcome feature for many people. WSL 2 support is available for Windows 10 on Intel/AMD and Windows 10 on
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