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ClamAV is a FOSS anti-virus product, and while it doesn’t offer features we’re all used to now such as real-time scanning we’ll walk you through the process of configuring a cronjob to scan on a regular basis. Premium AV is still our recommendation if you want advanced security, but ClamAV is sufficient for most use […]
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[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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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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Ikey Doherty, best known as the creator of the Solus Linux project until his departure in 2018, today announced a new distro: Serpent OS (soon to be re-branded as Serpent Linux). On the Serpent OS website (https://www.serpentos.com/about/) Doherty explains that Serpent OS is intended to be “A Truly Modern Linux Distribution” with modern architectural design
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GNOME is one of the most commonly used desktop environments for Linux/BSD desktops and laptops, but by default it can be quite lacking in customisability and other features. Fear not! There’s an easy way to modify your GNOME install: extensions! The easiest way to install extensions is using the GNOME Shell Extensions page (https://extensions.gnome.org/). This
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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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When using CloudLinux with PHP Selector, you may need to force all existing users on a server to use a correct version of PHP. While Plesk makes this easy by setting a PHP version to an alt-php version, PHP Selector will still default to 5.4 meaning sites won’t load. We’ll need to do two things.
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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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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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